Trainee profile: Alex
Alex is one of our longest standing trainees and has overcome significant challenges to become a highly valued member of our employed team. Disadvantaged by severe dyslexia, OCD and autism, Alex is a classic example [...]
A Scottish adventure
Lou & Wendy creating an arrangement. Photo: Eve Nemeth Director & head florist Wendy and florist Lou had a Scottish adventure this autumn! Wendy, along with Jo, is a co-chair of grower-florists' network [...]
Organic Growers Gathering
Saturday morning. 8.30am. A field on the banks of the Thames. Not the our usual start to the weekend, but in early October Jo, Lisa, Gill, Katy & Lucy headed down the M4 to Tolhurst [...]
A grand day out!
Opportunities for the Organic Blooms / Natureworks leadership team to spend quality time together away from Organic Blooms are all too rare. Recently, however, we put that to rights with a fabulous visit to Iford [...]
The sustainable future of flowers
Sustainability has always been at the heart of everything Organic Blooms does. From supporting our trainees to build sustainable futures for themselves, to certified organic regenerative farming practices, carefully examining our supply and distribution chains [...]
Celebrating another glorious open day
Celebrating our season with you at our annual open day is always a high point of our year. This year's event, held on 10th September to coincide with Flowers From The Farm's Flower Farmers' Big [...]
Trainee profile: Mish
Mish first joined Natureworks as a trainee in 2018, a year into her recovery from a horse riding accident that left her in a coma for two weeks. Joining us at a point in her [...]
Edible flowers – our latest venture
Edible flowers are all the rage*. They bring colour and interest as a garnish to all manner of dishes; they also add nutritional value and variety to our diets, benefitting gut health. Beloved of the [...]
Trainee profile: Andrew
Passionate Liverpool FC supporter and Guns ‘n’ Roses fan Andrew is a very hard working and reliable member of our trainee team. He can usually be found working outside in our cutting field weeding, preparing [...]
BBC Country File visits Organic Blooms!
BBC Country File came along to film at Organic Blooms earlier this summer for a special hour long programme all about British flowers. Four of our trainees – Joseph, Toby, Ally & Mish – featured [...]
Farm gate sale this Saturday
Farm gate sale 10-12 Saturday 19th June. New for 2021, we will be holding our first Saturday morning farm gate sale this Saturday 19th June - and we can't wait to have visitors once again! [...]
Flourish! Support and grow with Organic Blooms
Flourish with us in 2021! Flourish - support and grow with the new membership group from Organic Blooms I have to say I think we’re all pleased to have landed in March. After two months [...]
Ten years on!
It's ten years this month since we moved to our current site. Director and head florist Wendy Paul reflects on how far we've come since the dark, wintery days of 2011. Our first polytunnel, 2011 [...]
Covid-19 Organic Blooms update
Covid-19 update: We are sad to announce that, following the most recent Government announcements, we are no longer able to open for our trainees or visitors.
A quiet time? Nope, not a chance…
A quiet time? On a certified organic flower farm? In January? Not a chance! We're busy planning our sowing, growing, workshops, events and much more.
Buy Social for World Mental Heath Day
Buy Social for a Better World and World Mental Health Day – both campaigns that reflect the ethics at the heart of Organic Blooms – have serendipitously coincided this year. The launch week for the [...]
Buying Social
Buying Social is a key concept for Organic Blooms and our open morning last Saturday was an opportunity for us to talk to visitors about our Social Enterprise – the reason we exist. Our hearts [...]
Our favourite day of the year (well, one of them)!
Our favourite day of the year (well, one of them!) is almost here. We’ll be open this Saturday 28 September from 10 until 1 for #organicseptember – and entry is free.
The Flower Farmers’ Big Weekend and our annual open day
The Flower Farmers’ Big Weekend is coming! In three weeks’ time, on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 August, more than 40 people will be spending a day with us at Organic Blooms as part of this national celebration of ethical flower farming, organised by growers’ association Flowers From The Farm.
Bags of Help – please vote for us!
Bags of Help, Tesco's charitable initiative funded by the sale of reusable bags-for-life, is supporting Organic Blooms throughout May and June. We are delighted to have been selected for Bags of Help. Please use your [...]
World Autism Awareness Week
This week is World Autism Awareness Week 2019 (1-7 April), a great opportunity to think about how we can support friends, colleagues and family members with the condition. The National Autistic Society provides a great [...]
Sunshine, glorious sunshine… in February?
Glorious sunshine over the last week may have seen us shedding the layers as we basked in positively balmy daytime temperatures, but for professional growers the unseasonably warm weather brought a chill to the heart. [...]
Valentine’s day: Roses are red…
...but they definitely aren’t in season. Red roses may have become synonymous with Valentine’s day but they could hardly be less representative of the time of year. The millions of roses imported vast distances from [...]
Merry Christmas from Organic Blooms!
Merry Christmas! As we finally put aside our wreath rings and foliage, we've been reflecting on what a brilliant year 2018 has been for Organic Blooms, thanks to our customers, supporters and of course our [...]
Ethical Christmas – making the dream a reality
Ethical Christmas foliage: Organic Blooms eucalyptus and rosemary Ethical Christmas decorations and gifts are a hot topic amongst the Organic Blooms team. Christmas, whether we like it or not, is the season of [...]
Practical horticulture: make 2019 your year to grow
At Organic Blooms we pride ourselves on our practical horticulture expertise. There is, of course, a place for in-depth knowledge of Latin botanical names and microbiological plant structures. That knowledge, however, doesn’t necessarily translate into [...]
World Mental Health Day 2018
Today – 10 October – is World Mental Health Day. This year the global theme is young people’s mental health. Everyone experiences stress, anxiety or low mood at some point during their lives but for [...]
World Mental Health Day: Faye’s story
I was diagnosed with anorexia and borderline personality disorder at age 18. I went through three years of treatment and was then left to go it alone. I tried my best, I always got the [...]
World Mental Health Day: Dan’s Story
My mental health affected my life from a very young age. When I was four I was happy one minute and banging my head on concrete the next. By the time I was eight I [...]
Why are we organic?
Thanks so much to everyone who came along to our Organic Blooms open day on Saturday – it was so nice seeing so many people enjoying our site, our flowers, music from the Swinging Nettles [...]
Open Day 29 September 2018
Come and see us at our open day! We're throwing our gates open this Saturday 29 September from 10 until 1 and we'd love to see you. We're not only celebrating the end of a [...]
Gin, flowers, Organic September and our open day!
We held the last of our three Gin & Flowers crowdfunding reward events a week last Saturday. The weather was kind; our yurt and orchard made an atmospheric setting for progressively liberal measures and increasingly [...]
Honing horticultural skills
This summer of meteorological challenges has wiped out any danger of horticultural complacence amongst the Organic Blooms team. Growing in the face of such difficult conditions tests our horticultural expertise, forcing us to think on [...]
Fantastic if tricky times
Organic Blooms It’s turning out to be a funny old season. Just as the interest in seasonal British flowers is growing – highlighted by Wendy’s involvement with the Flowers From The Farm gold [...]
It’s British Flowers Week
Deep pink gorgeousness! It’s British Flowers Week, so if you’re buying flowers this week, make sure you get the best of what’s in season and support growers by buying British! There’s no point [...]
Mental Health Awareness Week, VOOM, Chelsea and weddings… Where to start?!?
There’s SO much going on at Organic Blooms this week that it’s almost impossible to know where to begin. But as this week is Mental Health Awareness Week, let’s start there. One of the purposes [...]
We are VOOMing and we need your votes!
Following on from the incredible support we received for our crowdfunding campaign, we’re thrilled to have the opportunity to enter the 2018 Virgin Media Business VOOM awards. At the risk of being annoying, we’d love [...]
Could you be a flower farmer?
We love flower farming. It isn’t always easy – as with all farming there are unexpected challenges to resolve and difficult decisions to make every day. But it is so rewarding in so many ways [...]
Thank you for an incredible month
We are thrilled, excited, moved and humbled in equal measures. Over the last month our supporters including many of you as well as LV and Santander, have donated more than £32,000 to our crowdfunding campaign. [...]
We are crowdfunding!
It's already been non-stop so far this year. It's still early days for our flowers but Valentine's Day and Mothers Day felt like whirlwinds - thanks for your great response to our hampers, we're very [...]
A blooming fabulous new year to you!
Happy new year! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas – here’s to a blooming great 2018. We had a fabulous Christmas at Organic Blooms. We decided to run all our Christmas workshops over [...]
It’s the end of our season – let the festivities begin!
We’ve had the first frosts, the dahlias have been lifted and put to bed for the winter, and it’s time to reflect on a fantastic growing season and take a look ahead. Every year we [...]
To dig, or not to dig?
We were delighted to achieve Soil Association certification back in February, but certification is not an end in itself. Rather, it is just the beginning of an exciting journey for Organic Blooms as we continually [...]
Gardening for mental health
Today we're celebrating World Mental Health Day. In particular we're celebrating the very positive impact that gardening and spending time in green spaces has on mental wellbeing. It's something we see every day in our [...]
Our fabulous British Flower Week
Hottest British Flowers Week EVER! But in spite of last week’s stem-wilting heat, we celebrated in style. Combining two of our passions – British flowers and organics – we supplied 50 gorgeous arrangements for the [...]
Things are hotting up at Organic Blooms (metaphorically at least!)
The chilly, blustery weather leaves something to be desired but so far most of our flowers are proving their resilience, unlike the poor tree that was blown down outside our workshop, which our team have [...]
Plant a cutting garden for National Gardening Week!
It’s the RHS’s National Gardening Week, the sun is shining on the Organic Blooms cutting garden, and the team – chickens and dogs included – is full of the joys of Spring! Our growing season [...]
Spring is springing into life again at Organic Blooms!
Today we definitely felt that Spring is springing into life again at Organic Blooms! The polytunnels and cutting gardens are increasingly verdant daily – and this week’s sunshine has brought enough warmth to the tunnels [...]
Wellbeing Week
Wellbeing Week Today marks the end of our first ever Wellbeing Week at Organic Booms and we were able to share some of this wellbeing with our most local customers with a very timely flowering [...]
Hurray! We are celebrating because today our land becomes certified Organic!
Hurray! We are celebrating because today our land becomes certified Organic! We have cause to celebrate on this cold February day because after a 2 year process our land has finally converted to Organic status, [...]
Autumn dilemmas!
We’ve done our last wedding of the year and although we’ve pretty much reached the end of our growing season, the cutting garden still looks beautiful. But it’s a beauty that brings dilemmas at this [...]
Reconnecting with the land
Reconnecting with the land Last Tuesday I was privileged to meet an amazing group of people on our Organic Blooms running a land based social enterprise course. For many of us, our everyday lives are [...]
Organic September
It's Organic September and our friends at the Soil Association are asking us all to make a difference by making small organic changes to everyday life. But here at Organic Blooms we're thinking more along [...]
We #lovetowork!
People with learning difficulties want to work, love to work and can be a valuable asset to business. At Organic Blooms we know this first hand – our fantastic trainees and employees are enabling our [...]
2016 Workshops
Its hard to imagine spring and summer at the moment, however, we are looking forward to the season ahead and our Summer 2016 Workshops have now been added onto the website. Something to look forward to! [...]
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Organic Blooms
As we finish for the Christmas break its great to look back and reflect on our year at Organic Blooms, as the business continues to grow and flourish! We've had an amazing year, working with [...]
My summer at Organic Blooms 2015
I started my adventure with Organic Blooms in April 2015, very new to the floristry industry yet desperate to be given the chance to work doing something I loved. I come from an arts based [...]
A day in the life of Organic Blooms
My work experience at Organic Blooms gave me an insight in to the world of work and the idea of giving people with learning difficulties and mental health support needs a chance to have a [...]
Organic Blooms at Buckingham Palace!
We may not have a Royal Appointment for our bouquets yet, but we were privileged to attend a Royal Garden Party in the beautiful gardens of Buckingham Palace today! The whole day has felt surreal, [...]
The Orchard at Organic Blooms
This winter the OB team have been hard at work planning and planting an apple orchard. Thirty-one trees have been established in the wild flower meadow which runs alongside the cutting garden flower plots. We [...]
Organic Blooms – Who are we?
Organic Blooms….Who are we?! Many people buy our beautiful flowers, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and come to our open days, but do you know what we really do?? First and [...]
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…!
Here at Organic Blooms the flower growing season may be coming to an end but we're still busy tending our evergreen seasonal foliage getting it ship shape for our Christmas Door Wreath Workshops. Door [...]
September is here!
Here at Organic Blooms we LOVE September (and not just because our kids go back to school!) Autumn signifies the end of the season for us – and what a glorious season we had! Currently [...]
