10 years on.

How much the flower farm cost.

This month, ‘Anna’s Flower Farm’ began. I had no name, I kept putting combinations into Twitter to find a handle. This one was available. I never used Twitter again.

I started off with a stall in the village selling plants that I practised growing.

This felt enormous when I first put plants out and started a Facebook page!

Then I began to grow and sell flowers.

Anna’s Flower Farm expanded, working with another grower to sell wholesale, employed a team.

Then contracted back to just me with some ad hoc assistance.

I describe these spaces now as a place where I experiment and share those learnings. , research, learn and teach, write and design from.

Now selling flowers isn’t central to my model. I grow flowers to research, learn, teach, write and design from. But those flowers still get sold. In wedding packages, flower sessions, some events and buckets.

We went from an empty walled garden and strip of ground to a thriving vibrant space.

The walled garden with the lean to (now kitchen) filled with 30 years of wood ash. It took 3 skips to clear.

The Braybrooke Garden and Studio - after it was dug over. Which at the time seemed the right thing to do.

The composting loo in progress

View from terrace (studio behind me) across the Braybrooke Garden.

I thought it would be an insight to list what we spent on doing this and think about what I have to show for it now.

Without going to my receipts and accounts, this is to my best memory, what was spent to set up these spaces: