. About Us .

Here at Carol’s Garden, Paul & Carol grow the flowers we sell and use in our floristry. Mainly garden and wild flowers rather than the usual florist imports - we'll try anything, see how it grows here, how it combines with other flowers, how it copes in a vase or a bouquet, what it feels like. That absolute intimacy informs how we work with flowers, handling and arranging them. That intimacy that you can only get from sowing a seed, watching it grow, and flower, deciding when to pick it, how to treat it. Imported flowers are like strangers to us - somehow starched, characterless.  We are all about flowers. Respect for flowers.

Our location is beautiful and we embrace everything about it - the soil, the wildlife and the climate - so we grow plants which can thrive in these conditions. No hot-housing - they live in soil, and have to live in harmony with what is already here. We use unheated plastic tunnels to protect the most delicate spring flowers from the worst of the wind and rain, and to be sure we have flowers from March rather than May. 

We have grown flowers here for 15 years, and 2026 will be our final year. We are retiring from the farm and have, sadly, been unable to find a realistic way for potential new owners to take it on. The landowner does nor now appear to be prepared to repair the house to minimum legal residential standards and can’t or won’t tell us what the future might be. We have tried long and hard to find a way through but have now accepted that this won’t happen.

We would like to thank you all for your interest, support and custom over the years. It has been a life choice, not just a business