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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 🥹🙏)

05/05/2026

✨GIFT BOUQUETS✨

I haven’t restocked the webshop with gift bouquets because I just don’t have the capacity to make them ad hoc this year - but if you’d like a special occasion bouquet from me please just message to request and if I have capacity I’ll do it. I still love making gift bouquets - they connect me to the garden and to the world outside at the same time and the joy they bring gives me enormous satisfaction - but they are very labour intensive for the money. But I do hate to be that pragmatic, and there is merit in getting British flowers out there into the world in all their glory, so I’m going to keep doing them whenever I can squeeze them in ✨

29/04/2026

✨BUTTONHOLES✨

I am of the opinion that of all the jobs I do, these are where I work hardest for my money 😂

28/04/2026

✨BOUQUET MAKING✨

The first cut and create bouquet making workshop of the season is on May 9 - fingers crossed for glorious weather like May 9 of last year 🤞

It’s still early in the British growing season, but there will be plenty of flowers in bloom to make a beautiful bouquet, and it’s a gorgeous time of year to be in the garden when the sun shines, listening to the birds.

If you’d like to learn how to make a hand tied bouquet and spend a few hours immersing yourself in flowers, I’d love for you to join me 🙏

27/04/2026

✨AND WE’RE OFF✨

This weekend was my first wedding of the season - this is Sophie’s pastel bridal bouquet which I really hope she loved. I can’t wait to see some pictures of the bridal bouquet alongside the single coloured bridesmaid bouquets! A tricky brief at this time of year but thankfully Dot came to my rescue with some extra locally grown loveliness ☺️🥰

It’s one heck of a juggle, growing and picking and arranging (and collecting with a crying baby 🤪) but I am so blessed to be doing this work and to be so well supported - both at home and by my network of friends and fellow growers.

To all the other grower florists out there also embarking on the first weddings of the season - best of luck - we’ve got this!! 🫶

18/04/2026

✨THE PERFECT MATCH✨

I love this job, and I especially love and appreciate the trust people put in me to design and deliver their wedding flowers, because they often don’t have much to go on!

I don’t do mock up drawings or computer designs, or put together mood boards, and so all my couples have to go on is a few photos of my previous work and pictures of what might be flowering in the garden. Some don’t even ask for that.

And whilst I know that’s not everyone’s cup of tea, that feels right to me. A blank canvas filled with seasonal flowers, inspired by the garden, and put together in my natural style, is enough of a brief. A few photos of bouquets you like, a colour scheme, and that’s all I need to create something magical and unique. The more open the brief, the more creative I can be.

So I REALLY appreciate hearing from previous couples how easy they found the process, how simple and stress free, and how perfectly the flowers fitted what they imagined, without the need for much description. To me, this is natural, garden grown British flowers speaking for themselves.

Here’s what Pip says:

“Thank you Sammie for doing the most beautiful flowers for our wedding!
Despite the fact that I gave her very little direction other than bright colours, she did the most perfect bouquets, button holes, meadow boxes and buckets of flowers we put out on the tables. They were stunning and we had so many compliments, can’t recommend highly enough!“

Thank you so much!! 🥰

Photo by 🙏

09/04/2026

✨THE SWEET SPOT✨

Tulips have taught me so much.

1. More is not necessarily better: there are just more bulbs for the rats to eat.

2. I do not need to pick and sell every flower to be a valid flower farmer florist, especially not the perennials. Enjoy them in the garden one year and they’ll be there the next.

3. I do not need to grow everything. Thankfully I’m part of an amazing network of flower farmers and some of them don’t have families of rats living in their garden.

4. Don’t force it. Nature is slow to warm up in the spring and so am I. Start the season slowly and gently, not with a mad rush of impossibly quick to go over tulip sales.

That said, I do still have some tulips to pick from. Just not many, and I’m no longer planting them in bulk, or pulling them in bulk. They can stay in the garden unless they’re exactly what I need at that moment. I’m done hustling to sell them.

**Caveat** I’m growing mainly for my own weddings, workshops and pick your own and selling the surplus to other florists - if I was growing for wholesale my approach would be different 🙃

I hope this reassures another grower in the same position!

Thanks for the photo!

07/04/2026

✨HAND TIED BOUQUET MAKING✨

A photo from a workshop back when my hair was long and the flowers were abundant 🌈

I have a limited capacity for workshops this summer and they are now up on the website to book so if you want to come and make a hand tied bouquet with me this season then get your ticket!

It’s a lovely few hours of relaxing creativity and immersion in the colours and sounds of the garden. I’ll give you a demo and then you explore the flower garden and choose whatever takes your fancy. I’ll be on hand to help as needed! It’s a chance to learn a new skill and enjoy some mindful downtime with likeminded company ✨

Hope to see you there!

Address

Kiddal Quarry Farm, York Road
Leeds
LS143AE

Telephone

+447458011574

Website

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

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