Honesty Flowers

Flower farm in Henley-in-Arden growing distinctive seasonal flowers. Supplying professional florists across Warwickshire, the Cotswolds and London.

Peonies, garden roses, irises, cosmos, dahlias. Wholesale + DIY wedding buckets.

20/06/2026

The summer solstice and the house is a mess.

The kids are out, I’m finishing invoices before heading to the field.

The seedlings going out today are what will bring the abundance of late summer — more cosmos, more china asters, more of everything. And then one last direct sow, seeds straight into the ground, a final push to keep things coming deep into autumn.

The roses and sweet peas have finally made it to the table. It’s grey outside. I’m exhausted. But there’s a feeling that comes with midsummer — that the hardest part is behind you, that from here it should be all cutting and filling buckets.

Happy solstice to everyone out there doing the same.
summer solstice • midsummer • british cut flowers • british flowers • slow flowers • grown not flown • seasonal flowers • flower farmer • roses • sweet peas • cosmos • china asters • cutting garden • warwickshire grower

18/06/2026

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This morning’s cut.
British flowers week • slow flowers • British grown • flower farming • wedding florist • field to florist • Warwickshire • cut flowers • seasonal stems • clematis • sweet rocket • silene

11/06/2026

Every year I question whether to grow calendula. Every year they remind me why I do. This one appeared without any help from me — the field is full of self-seeders, a silver lining from lifting the landscape fabric this season. Like an old friend saying hello.
calendula • cut flower grower • British grown flowers • seasonal flowers • self seeder • grow your own cut flowers • florist flowers • Warwickshire • field grown • specialty cut flowers

01/06/2026

Roses. There’s nothing quite like them.

The scent, the layers, that particular softness that belongs entirely to summer. Standing in front of a rose at its peak is one of those rare moments that actually makes you stop.

Silas Marner, Gabriel Oak, Wollerton Old Hall — three varieties flowering in the garden while the field ones are nearly there.

Choosing roses for cutting is a different exercise to choosing them for a garden — stem length, vase life, repeatability, how a variety behaves on an open exposed site rather than a sheltered one. I’ve spent a long time researching this and I’m still learning.

This year’s temperature swings — cold nights into scorching days — have caused bullnosing on some of the buds at the field, where the flower develops distorted and simply can’t open. Those get pinched off. The buds are there — I can see them — but the waiting is its own kind of work.

The first flush is coming.

29/05/2026

Peony season. Heaven.

Duchess de Nemours and Sarah Bernhardt picked this morning — white and red, straight from the field.

A few bunches still available today through our WhatsApp group.

Drop me a DM if you’d like to join.
Honesty Flowers • British grown peonies • Henley-in-Arden • seasonal cut flowers • Warwickshire grower • peony season

28/05/2026

After an extraordinary few days of heat, the field has rallied and there are some genuinely lovely things ready to pick tomorrow.

The best of the season in a bucket at the end of May — delphinium and cornflower, geum, campanula, knautia, nepeta, sicilian honey garlic, alliums (including Miami, which is nearly shoulder height), a handful of peonies, tutti frutti poppies, and alchemilla mollis.

Early morning pick — delivery to Leamington or collection from the field before 10am. Message me if you’d like one.
delphinium • cornflower • geum • Knautia • nepeta • allium • peony • poppy • alchemilla • British seasonal flowers • cut flowers • Warwickshire • end of May

27/05/2026

First clematis. Last ranunculus. Possibly the last irises.

The heatwave has knocked us about — the gentle succession I’d planned to carry us into summer got caught between a late frost and then the heat, and I feel about a month behind.

The field needs some TLC. So do I.

No availability list this week. Half term, a juggle, and honestly a moment to catch up with ourselves before Friday’s heat arrives again.

Back properly next week.
honesty flowers • warwickshire cut flowers • british seasonal flowers • seasonal succession • post heatwave • half term

22/05/2026

A week that felt like the start of summer.

After last week’s frost there was a moment of holding your breath — and then suddenly, this. First delphiniums. The last of the ranunculus giving way to nigella. Foxgloves. Sweet peas. Peachy apricot garden roses just beginning to open.

The peonies deciding all at once that now is the time. And the Violet Beauty allium, dramatic and dependable as ever.

It’s been a pastel week — softer and quieter than I’d planned for, but honestly one of the most beautiful of the season so far.

I’m heading to the field now to water everything deeply and get the shade netting on before the heat wave arrives this weekend. The seedlings are waiting to go in next week. Then it’s time to turn my attention to the dahlias.

British seasonal cut flowers • Warwickshire flower farm • delphiniums • foxgloves • garden roses • peonies • allium • sweet peas • ranunculus • nigella

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Royal Leamington Spa
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Telephone

+447980749269

Website

http://www.honestyflowers.co.uk/

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