The Cut Flower Podcast

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.Hey everyone, welcome to the Cutflower podcast! Roz Chandler is back with another episode and this week, she's joined by Katie Colella. They're going to be talking about some really interesting topics related to flower farming and business ownership. If you're a flower farmer or business owner, this is definitely an episode you don't want to miss. Roz and Katie will be discussing business strategy, visibility, and social media - all of the thi...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.Welcome to this week's episode of the Cut Flower Podcast with your expert host, Roz Chandler. Joining Roz in the studio is Peony Farmer and Expert, Elonor Tivey. Elonor is renowned in the world of flowers as a passionate peony farmer. She specializes in growing different varieties of peonies in her two-acre field, including early, mid-season, and late varieties, which she supplies to florists and also does pop-ups. After being a teacher for so...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.Welcome to this weeks episode of the Cutflower Podcast with your host Roz Chandler. This week Roz is joined in the studio by the incredibly inspiring Cissy Bullock from the Sustainable School of Floristry. Roz explore's Cissy's path to floristry and cut flowers and discusses what needs to be done to improve the whole;e supply chain to get the flowers from field to vase in a much more efficient, cost effective and sustainable way. Listen ...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.Roz caught up with Tessa Dooley from Ladybird Plantcare this week. Tessa, mum to young twins, bought Ladybird Plantcare in November 2018. Prior to owning Ladybird, Tessa worked in marketing, she has worked on lots of different brands across a long periods of time. A definite career shift from marketing to plantcare. Listen in to this fascinating episode all about natural predators for plantcare.This weeks key discussion points incl...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.Joining Roz in the studio today is Bethany Harries. Bethany was originally a personal trainer, and decided she needed a career change, suffering mental and physical burnt out and exhaustion. She was always interested in public health and health promotion. So after doing a bit of Career Research Bethany decided that she wanted to become a health psychologist. So she enrolled on to a psychology degree with the Open University, and then aft...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.This week Roz is joined in the studio by Dr David Bek, who is a reader in sustainable economics based at the Research Centre for Business in society at Coventry University, which is in the UK. David has extensive experience undertaking research into sustainability within horticultural supply chains, especially cut flowers. Key points we discuss in today's episode include:David’s journey into cut flowers. How to be open to whatever y...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.This week Roz caught up with Amber Partner from Howe Farm Flowers. Amber bought her farm in 2012, and the rest as they say is history. Howe Farm Flowers is located on the Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire border, in the pretty village of Dorton. The farm is within easy reach of Thame, Bicester, Aylesbury and Waddesdon, and is a half hour’s drive from Oxford. Theylove to grow beautiful, seasonal cut flowers with a proclivity for scent and su...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.Roz is joined in the studio this week by the incredible husband and wife team Steve and Paula from Floral Media, who describe their business as 'More Than Just Flowers'.Floral Media's heart is in horticulture, they also do events, where garden groups come on visits, and they take them on tours. They run about 15 acres in total now, so part of its garden, and part of its for growing. Included in the garden tours are workshops, and they al...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.Roz is joined in the studio this week by Joanna Game a British flower Florist. You can follow Joanna on Instagram here > @joannagame_flowers Key points for discussion this week:Introduction to Joanna GameWhat’s the biggest issue with the British flower industry? Ex-nurses vs. current florists. When is Beltane coming up? What inspires you to do what you do? Don’t be envious of others’ success. If you weren’t growing ...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.Roz is joined in the studio this week by Michael Kennard. Michael is the founder of Compost Club just outside Brighton. Compost Club is a social enterprise, to regenerate soil with really good living, biologically abundant and diverse compost, using food waste from residents and businesses. Key discussions points for today: Introducing Michael Kennard founder of Compost Club The Women’s European Championship. What is the...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.Roz is joined in the studio this week by Alice Vicent. Alice is a writer, ostensibly, who happens to garden. She has spent the last 15 years mostly as an arts journalist, She has spent a long time as a music journalist. The bulk of Alice's career was spent in house at the telegraph. In the last few years, Alice has been working all over the place, and she's written about gardening as well. Listen in to this weeks really interesting discussion ...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.In this weeks episode Roz is joined in the studio by Bex Partridge. Bex dried flower business really took off during covid lockdowns, she joins Roz to discuss the journey from corporate marketing and project management to dried flower entrepreneur. She is the author of: Everlastings comes Flowers Forever – a book that will inspire you to create beautiful floral displays with long lasting, dried flowers.Flowers Forever: Celebrate th...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.Today Roz is joined in the studio by Tom Simpson from Woolmans. Tom has been in the horticultural industry really, from a work point of view ever since he left school. Tom's first interest in gardening stems right back from when he was a very young child through his parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. Key discussion points in todays episode:Tom’s background in gardening. What’s the current trend towards Dahlia? When d...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.In todays episode of The Cut Flower Podcast, Roz is joined in the studio by James Sinclair. Roz came across James via Instagram as one of the most influential people in the gardening world. James started off as a landscaper, and a sort of jobbing gardener, he designs gardens, talks about gardens, and broadcasts very occasionally about gardens. James also write about them, and judges things and all that kind of stuff. Tun...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions.Today Roz is joined in the Studio by Helen Cross, whom she met on instagram. Helen is in Glasgow. shes a mum of three. During lockdown, Helen became really, really passionate about gardening, but actually, she thinks possibly the seed was sown was before as she grew up on a farm on the southwest coast of Scotland, which her family still farm there as well.Today's podcast discussion covers: Helen’s Introduction. We ar...