Now I'm tapping the keyboard in the hope that some of you cut flower growers (experienced or complete beginners) may be interested in participating in a photo archive project.
I’m trying to collate photos to show what’s happening in cut flower growing in the Uk today.
Please can you help. If you’d like to.
I’m looking for photographs of the widest
possible range of cut flower gardens/ small scale cut flower businesses which
will show various approaches to cut flower growing – and the reality of the
hard work and the mercurial weather.
Photos don’t have to be glamorous, I’m not
looking for perfection, I’m not looking for photos of beautiful flower
arrangements, just glimpses of different situations at different times of year.
I’d really like to see some pictures of gardens at the down times as well as
bursting with flowers. It would be great to see some gardens preparing for the
season as well as in full swing. I feel that people will be just as interested
to see the nuts and bolts (sowing, planting, weeding and more weeding) as much
as the beautiful rewards. I would like to show different ways of cut flower
gardening, on different types of sites, with different approaches.
There are two reasons for trying to collect
varied images, one is for some online teaching about cut flower growing – I want to broaden this so although I'm the one with the mouth it's not just about me and my style but to show how there are many many ways to pursue cut flower growing, so everyone’s photos will be credited with your website details to provide a
resource pointing to the current crop of UK growers . The other reason is to try
and get a picture of what’s going on in the cut flower growing world in 2014,
partly because it would be interesting to get the broad picture, and partly
because there’s a possibility of a collaborative ebook including features about
different growers round the UK.
Photos need to be reasonable quality, but
if you’d like to mail me some snaps first to take a look at that would be
fantastic.
I look forward to hearing from you as soon
as you have a chance. Preferably sooner! THANK YOU!
