The Cut Flower Podcast

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions. Hey there, fellow gardening enthusiasts! Welcome to another exciting episode where we're diving deep into the world of sustainable gardening. Today, we have the pleasure of chatting with the incredible Sally Morgan, a seasoned horticulturist and gardening guru. Sally will be sharing some valuable insights on how climate change is affecting ou...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions. Joining Roz in the studio today is the delightful Anya Lautenbach, lovingly known as the "garden fairy" on Instagram, with a following of over 300,000 gardening enthusiasts. Today Roz waste no time at all to dive into Anya's unique background in sales and business development and how her life took a beautiful turn when she discovere...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions. In this friendly and informative episode, Roz welcomes Adam Marshall, known as Green fingered city boy on Instagram. Adam shares his gardening journey and how he has amassed nearly 70,000 followers on instagram. Adam's gardening journey began in 2020, just before covid lockdowns, as a way to take control of his physical health and increase hi...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions. Joining Roz in the studio today is Dr Olivia Chapple MRCGP. Olivia is the co-founder and chair of the trustees of Horatio’s Garden charity. Horatio was her eldest son. Horatios garden is a national charity now, and our mission is to bring beautiful, vibrant gardens to all the UK, NHS spinal injury centres. So we build gardens, designed by incredib...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions. In today's episode of the Cutflower Podcast, we have a special guest joining us in the studio. Nicola Hill, the talented founder of Gentle Blooms from Leamington Spa, shares her passion for flowers and the story behind her blossoming business. Key Points: Nicola Hill runs Gentle Blooms, a local flower business that offers a range of beautiful...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions. Today, we're shaking things up as we dive into the depths of your burning questions. In our thriving Facebook group, "Cut Flower Farming: Growth and Profit in Your Business," we asked about your biggest struggles, and now it's time to provide you with the answers you've been eagerly awaiting. Join me as we embark on a jour...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions. This week on the show, Roz is joined by a very special guest - Mike Palmer, also known as Mike The Gardener. Mike's passion for gardening led him to study RHS 1,2,3 at Horticulture College as a mature student and start his own business in gardening and garden design. Unfortunately, the lockdowns put a halt to a lot of his work, but that'...

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&...

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,...

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 g...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions. Have you ever wondered about the top perennials to add to your cutting garden? Well in today's episode I'm going to be sharing with you all my top twenty cutting flowers. It's important to provide a range of cutting flowers in your patch - in colour, in texture and in season. We hope you enjoy growing them in your cutting patch. Key...

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...

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 p...

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 i...

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 f...

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...

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 Game What’s the biggest issue with the British flower industry?  Ex-nurses vs. current florists.  When is Beltane coming up?  What inspires you t...

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 K...

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 p...

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...

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 e...

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....

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 th...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions. Hello, and welcome to the Cut Flower Podcast, with Roz Chandler.   Today Roz is joined by Caroline Beck who she met on instagram. Caroline was a Gardening Journalist prior to becoming a cut flower farmer.   In todays episode they are discussing:  How Caroline got into the world of cut flowers.  Moving from a windy farm to a walled garden and being...

Text Agony Aunt Roz with your Cutflower Questions. Joining Roz in the studio is Marian Boswall.  Roz came across Marian whilst browsing on instagram. We pick up Marian's story in todays episode covering sustainability, the environment and gardening.  Today we will be discussing:  How Instagram can be a positive thing for you.  What can we do to make the world a better place?  When we have hum...