Financial Times | A Grower’s Revival

By Shane Connolly

GROWERS SCENT A REVIVAL IN UK’S CUT-FLOWER INDUSTRY

Polly Nicholson holding Lathyrus odoratus ‘Earl Grey’ © Britt Willoughby Dyer.

‘Apricot Parrot’ tulips grown by Bayntun Flowers © Britt Willoughby Dyer.

Britain’s surviving flower farmers are diversifying to appeal to new audiences, and new entrepreneurs are emerging. Polly Nicholson, of Bayntun Flowers in Wiltshire, is a small-scale grower specialising in rare flowers that aren’t usually available in the market place. She is polycultural and organic, so her clients have a constantly revolving palette of seasonal flowers with a strong environmental ethos: hand weeding, boreholes for water, black bees for pollination, manure from her own livestock and no pesticides.

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