Press & Mentions
A selection of current media coverage on Bayntun Flowers and founder Polly Nicholson, including BBC Gardeners’ World, and features in the New York Times, Gardens Illustrated, House & Garden and Country Life.
Flower Moment
November-December, 2024
“The Japanese art of kokedama allows me to bring fresh, long-lasting flowers into the house during the bleakest days of winter. I savor the process of gently cocooning ‘helleborus niger’ in balls of homemade compost, which are then cloaked with foraged moss from our garden pathways and wrapped in twine…”
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Tulip Fever
June 5, 2024
Polly Nicholson had been growing ordinary tulips at her home in Wiltshire for several years and establishing her florist business Bayntun Flowers when a chance purchase from a J. Parker’s catalogue of a Tulipa ‘Dom Pedro’ bulb changed everything. ‘It’s a Historic tulip dating from 1911 and, when it flowered, I discovered that it had a patina unlike that of any tulip I had ever seen.’
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Tip Top Tulips: Polly Nicholson On Her Passion For The Flowers
April 9, 2024
To coincide with the publication of her book The Tulip Garden, specialist organic grower Polly Nicholson shares her passion for these blooms. She has cultivated them in her Wiltshire garden for the past 15 years, forming a national collection and a thriving flower farm.
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An ‘Utterly Bewitching Flower’ Gets Its Due
March 10, 2024
A kaleidoscope of tulips blooms in spring on Polly Nicholson’s land in southwest England, the base for her organic cut flower business Bayntun Flowers. Her new book, “The Tulip Garden: Growing and Collecting Species, Rare and Annual Varieties” (Phaidon), shares how she mixes new and pedigreed types of what she calls an “utterly bewitching flower.”
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WORLD OF INTERIORS ‘VISITOR’S BOOK’
Touring the World’s last Victorian Book Bindery with Polly Nicholson and Edward Bayntun-Coward at George Bayntun in Bath.
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BBC GARDENERS’ WORLD
Polly Nicholson explains her passion for tulips on Gardeners’ World Winter Special.
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A VISIT TO BAYNTUN FLOWERS
Polly takes florist Shane Connolly on a tour of the gardens during British Flowers Week.
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The Tulip Garden author Polly Nicholson on the colours, the culture, and the rare bulb that costs more than a house
March, 2024
Nicholson started cultivating tulips15 years ago, and now has the largest collection of historic tulips in the UK. We asked her about her fascinating journey.
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PODCAST: Rhona Wheeldon interviews Polly on her career in organic flowers
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