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27/08/2026

✨AUTUMN IS COMING✨

I’m already feeling those autumn vibes in my colour palette leanings… looking forward to September (my favourite month) and all the juiciness the shifting season brings.

I have a packed schedule of workshops and pick your own flowers - see the website for details.

And if you need flowers for a DIY wedding please get in touch - I still have plenty of flowers to share for at least the next month ☺️

21/08/2026

✨WHAT IS COPING?✨

Lots of people have questions about which flowers are surviving, so here is a little snapshot of what is coping with the hot dry summer in my garden 🙂

1: me, just hanging in there, pretty tired 😴
2: dahlias, doing well if they were left in the ground
3: perennial asters, such a dependable workhorse
4: sedum, totally untroubled by the weather
5: mint, still flowering its socks off
6: verbena, taller than ever
7: perennial gypsophila, still masses of flowers
8: coreopsis, still plentiful
9: wormwood, still shooting up everywhere
10: bronze fennel, as big as ever
11: elder, still taking over the garden
12: annual asters, with some watering, are happy
13: Italian heart sunflowers, with some watering, also happy
14: zinnias, with very minimal watering, are loving the tunnel

The first 11 have had virtually no water from me all summer ☀️

11/08/2026

✨FAMILY TIME✨

Out of office until Monday. We’re going to our first festival 🥳 ✌️ ❤️

10/08/2026

✨PICK OF THE DAY✨

Thanks for the freeing brief Caroline - so fun to go out into the garden and pick whatever I fancy!

This one ended up bright pastels with some juicy darker accents and I love it ✨

Hoping it was a beautiful love filled day ❤️

06/08/2026

✨CREATING✨

What an odd thing it is, really, to create art under time pressure, to squeeze a piece of creativity out of your heart and your fingers to a precise schedule. I am becoming more predictable over time, my creating less unwieldy, perhaps more tamed, but is this a good thing? It is a necessary thing if working under time pressure is your bread and butter, but I crave some time to play without the deadline.

Here’s one I made earlier, a bridal bouquet that I made again and again until it finally formed into something I was happy to hand over to someone celebrating a most important day. Those red dahlias just would not cooperate. A little reminder to myself that creativity doesn’t always flow on demand, and also that a wrestle might just yield something wonderful. I have no idea what the moral of this story is, just some aimless musings ✨

28/07/2026

✨HAPPY BIRTHDAY FLORIS✨

Oh my goodness my baby girl is 1 tomorrow!

What a joy and a privilege it is to be your Mumma, to see you smile and wave at me when you wake up, to watch you light up and kick your legs with excitement at the sight of a cat, to see you scrunch up your face when you eat something not to your liking, to watch you dance and drum and wiggle and giggle when we play or listen to music, to be the one you turn to when you fall, to have your head rest on my shoulder when you’re tired, to soothe your sadness and celebrate your laughter and watch as you shift and grow from day to day into the most curious, joyful, adventurous and determined little person. I love you beyond all imagining ❤️

Thank you so much to Becca - Photographer for some absolutely gorgeous birthday photos 🫶

25/07/2026

✨NEW DIRECTIONS✨

Hello again 🫶 I’m back on instagram, but in a low key way, so please still email if you need me.

I have lots of juicy decisions to share following some time away. Next year things will look pretty different:

✨Very few wedding bookings, installations only, across Yorkshire, in order to give each of my couples the absolute best of me and my flower garden

✨Pick your own flowers continues, and I’ll be investing in making the garden an even more beautiful and enjoyable place to spend some time

✨Wholesale to event florists, with a pick your own option, also continues

And that’s it. That’s all I’m doing next year. I want to spend a lot of time on developing the garden into more of a sanctuary, growing a lot more perennials, totally phasing out annuals, investing in my soil health. I want to grow flowers for the long haul, and I want to do it in a way that is good for me and my family and good for the land and the plant, animal and insect life I share it with. I want my family and my garden and my community to thrive rather than just survive and it feels like I need to take some proactive measures to make that happen given our increasingly challenging climate. Watch this space!

Thanks so much for being here with me. I love this gorgeous supportive flowery community and I want to keep showing up here and engaging, but as I’ve seen others share lately too, I want to be here on terms that work for me and my family, sharing what feels true and alive and exciting, not just for the sake of it.

More juicy details of what’s to come in my next newsletter, and a bit more of the why behind the decisions, and how you can stay involved in Sammie’s Flowers. Sign up via the website.

Peace and love 🫶✌️

16/05/2026

✨BYE FOR NOW INSTAGRAM✨

I’ve decided it’s time to take a break from instagram. It is taking me out of my own experience, and rather than feeling like I’m part of a nourishing community here, more and more I’m leaving instagram feeling inadequate or self doubting.

I’m proud of this page I’ve created, the beautiful flowers and the memories and connections, and I don’t want to destroy it, so for now it’s just a pause to see how that feels.

I’ve realised that I’m not sure what I’m here for anymore. I don’t have the capacity to sell any more flowers, so really it’s just about keeping in touch with my community.

And there is another more satisfying way to do that! Without the distraction of instagram, I can put my energy back into my monthly newsletter, and focus more on in person connections with those close to me, including my precious, beautiful baby.

I don’t need relationships with mums in the US, or flower farmers in Canada, and I don’t benefit from watching other people forage and homemake if I don’t have time to do that myself because I’m here.

I really hope you’ll come and see me in person at one of my pick your own flowers sessions or workshops, or you’ll join my newsletter to keep hearing what I’m up to, but if you don’t that’s okay. Less is definitely more in this overstimulating age.

Peace and love to all ✌️ ❤️

Thanks for the joyful pic 🫶

15/05/2026

✨VISION✨

Love seeing this vision come to life! Thanks so much Sophie for sharing your pictures from 😍😍😍 More lovely pictures from this one to come ✨🫶

April wedding / British flowers / Yorkshire wedding

13/05/2026

✨WHAT TO DO ABOUT WEDDINGS✨

I love this part of my job, making beautiful bouquets for someone’s magical big day, but it’s also the most stressful. And working to a deadline under high pressure when you’ve got an unpredictable baby to care for really adds an extra challenge.

I’m in the process of deciding how to move forward with weddings next year, and I’m finding it really hard to say no to work after working so hard to get here, to this place of not having to push to sell flowers, this place of relative ease where the right people find me.

To all my flower farmer florist mumma friends, when did you go back to weddings after having a baby? Are you successfully juggling wedding floristry and baby care without burning out? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

(Thanks so much Lucy for this gorgeous photo from last summer! Pictures like this remind me that the work is worth it 🥹🙏)

Address

Kiddal Quarry Farm, York Road
Leeds
LS143AE

Telephone

+447458011574

Website

http://www.kqfarm.co.uk/

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