Backyard Blooms is a small flower farm on the Porangahau coast in Central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand where I grow a range of beautiful, seasonal flowers which are available to buy either at the Goat Horn Café, Waipawa or by contacting me directly. After my youngest children both started school in 2016 I found I had some extra time on my hands, so I challenged myself to grow enough flowers to fill my
home and those of family and friends. I soon discovered that my garden was ideal for growing flowers with our long, hot summers and mild, mostly frost-free winters. At that time some good friends opened 'Nola' Café in Waipawa and thought that it would be the ideal place to sell my flowers, so here we are! I try and grow my flowers as naturally as possible. I gather seaweed from my local beach to use as mulch and make liquid feed and I also make nettle and compost "teas" to feed both foliage and flowers. While I am not organic I do limit the amount of herbicides and pesticides I use. Therefore when you bury your nose in a bunch of my flowers you can be safe in the knowledge that the only thing that's touched those flowers before you are the bees and butterflies in my garden.
