Becoming a Cut Flower Grower

Hello, it's Friday 9 January 2026.Welcome to the latest episode! I've been hunkered down indoors this week finishing my new website, which I'm excited to say is now live. It has taken me a while because I wanted to write the text using all the information I learnt on my recent flower faming business course with Jenny Marks. So I hope that I have captured the spirit of the plot on the website.The second part of this episode is the first in a new series of flower profiles that I thought would be interesting to share with you: tonight I'm starting with Didiscus. As well as talking about the plant itself and its ideal growing conditions, I talk about how I grew it last year and how it worked out for me, and why it makes a great cut flower.I hope you enjoy the episode and that you'll come back and join me for the next one. And if you're interested, my new website is www.henhillcutflowers.co.uk.Connect with meIf you like what you hear, please follow/subscribe to this podcast so that you're the first to hear new episodes when they become available every Tuesday and Friday. And if you enjoy this episode, please take a minute to leave a review because it really does help more cut flower-lovers just like you to find the podcast. Follow me on instagram @henhillcutflowers for a behind-the-scenes look at life on my cut flower plot.Join me on my journey through a year of growing and selling cut flowers in England. I'm giving you the low-down on what it's really like, how I'm getting started, what you do and don't need, what I do when and why, the successes and failures, and just about everything in between. All in real time. With guest appearances from my chickens every now and then. 

Welcome. It's Tuesday 6 January 2026.We had more snow today! It was so pretty and fluffy but it did settle on the plot and made negotiating the slope a nightmare. It's melted away now but in the next few days we have a named storm coming in bringing with it a ton a rain. Always useful for topping up the water bowsers but not so good for getting any physical work done. With that in mind, I've created a list of nine things I could be doing when it's not possible to work outside. Topics range from auditing last year's activities to double checking seed orders and sorting photos into proper albums. All very helpful things and those which really need doing on rainy/snowy days before spring arrives and everything goes to the wall.I hope you find the episode interesting and that you'll come back and join me for the next episode - you're always very welcome.Connect with meIf you like what you hear, please follow/subscribe to this podcast so that you're the first to hear new episodes when they become available every Tuesday and Friday. And if you enjoy this episode, please take a minute to leave a review because it really does help more cut flower-lovers just like you to find the podcast. Follow me on instagram @henhillcutflowers for a behind-the-scenes look at life on my cut flower plot.Join me on my journey through a year of growing and selling cut flowers in England. I'm giving you the low-down on what it's really like, how I'm getting started, what you do and don't need, what I do when and why, the successes and failures, and just about everything in between. All in real time. With guest appearances from my chickens every now and then. 

Welcome. It's Friday 2 January 2026.Tonight I'm talking about the new year resolution I've made to improve my time management and fingers crossed I can do better in 2026. I really must stop running around like a mad thing.I'm also answering three brilliant questions from listeners in this episode that I've received in the last couple of days and I hope you enjoy the answers. The first one is about my rose planting technique (and how this differs from how I would plant roses in a garden); the second is about the interplanting of my bearded iris amongst the peonies and how to ensure that the rhizomes get enough sunshine; and the third is about how I'm succession sowing this year. Do please keep your questions coming: I'm not an expert but I'm always happy to share how I'm doing things and (sometimes) I do know what I'm doing. Please do come back and join me for the next episode - you're always very welcome.Connect with meIf you like what you hear, please follow/subscribe to this podcast so that you're the first to hear new episodes when they become available every Tuesday and Friday. And if you enjoy this episode, please take a minute to leave a review because it really does help more cut flower-lovers just like you to find the podcast. Follow me on instagram @henhillcutflowers for a behind-the-scenes look at life on my cut flower plot.Join me on my journey through a year of growing and selling cut flowers in England. I'm giving you the low-down on what it's really like, how I'm getting started, what you do and don't need, what I do when and why, the successes and failures, and just about everything in between. All in real time. With guest appearances from my chickens every now and then. 

Welcome to Tuesday 30 December 2025 and the 100th episode of this podcast!To celebrate this milestone, today's episode is an extra long one because I wanted to include the hens and then take you on a walk around the plot to chat about what's going on, and then finish part 2 of my review of 2025. The hens are an integral part of my cut flowers: they provide much needed organic fertiliser for the soil and they do help to keep pests away and aerate the soil. They're also the best company and I love working with them around.I thought that part 2 of the review wouldn't be long because some of the letters are tricky but it turned out that there's so much to talk about. I hope you enjoy listening to the successes and failures I had on the plot this year - and maybe you can relate to some of what I talk about!Please come back and join me for the next episode - you're always very welcome.Connect with meIf you like what you hear, please follow/subscribe to this podcast so that you're the first to hear new episodes when they become available every Tuesday and Friday. And if you enjoy this episode, please take a minute to leave a review because it really does help more cut flower-lovers just like you to find the podcast. Follow me on instagram @henhillcutflowers for a behind-the-scenes look at life on my cut flower plot.Join me on my journey through a year of growing and selling cut flowers in England. I'm giving you the low-down on what it's really like, how I'm getting started, what you do and don't need, what I do when and why, the successes and failures, and just about everything in between. All in real time. With guest appearances from my chickens every now and then. 

Welcome to the latest episode on Friday 26 December 2025. I hope that you've had a great Christmas. It's Boxing Day and to celebrate the end of Christmas and (almost) the end of the year, this episode is part 1 of my End of Year A-Z Review where tonight I chat about everything on the plot from Annuals to Ladybirds via Cosmos to Irrigation, Bells of Ireland to (lost) Keys, Hydrangea to Leafmould, tonight's episode covers a lot. It's been really fun to look back at everything I've been doing this year and assessing whether things were a success or not: I hope you enjoy it.Part 2 of the Review will cover everything from M-Z and this will come out on Tuesday next week as usual. Please come back and join me for the next episode - you're always very welcome.Connect with meIf you like what you hear, please follow/subscribe to this podcast so that you're the first to hear new episodes when they become available every Tuesday and Friday. And if you enjoy this episode, please take a minute to leave a review because it really does help more cut flower-lovers just like you to find the podcast. Follow me on instagram @henhillcutflowers for a behind-the-scenes look at life on my cut flower plot.Join me on my journey through a year of growing and selling cut flowers in England. I'm giving you the low-down on what it's really like, how I'm getting started, what you do and don't need, what I do when and why, the successes and failures, and just about everything in between. All in real time. With guest appearances from my chickens every now and then.