A cuppa with Rose

Between looking after the grandchildren, asking us 'how many orders today?', 'anything I can do?' and of course keeping Michael in line, she's an all-rounder and never stops!

We asked Rose to recount her favourite moments from last year and here’s what she came up with:

We have been growing and producing dried flowers for 25 years, but because of fashion change we now grow natural petal confetti.”

“Last July it was the Queen’s Jubilee and one of celebrations was at Cosford including a pageant of 3000 children. Just as the children came in front of the queen they threw handfuls of our natural petals ...what an amazing site that was. Wheat is also grown on the farm which we harvest into bunches and make wheat stooks We were honoured to be asked to put one in a hamper for the queen.”

“Our next highlight was having a phone call from a wholesaler asking us if we grew anything that looked grassy.  I explained that we dried the wheat for decorations. After dispatching a sample and asking how they be interested in if they liked the sample whilst on the phone he said 5 stems x 5000 so I immediately thought of bouquets for the Olympics. They were not allowed to say yes or no.  After many rules and regulations re the growth of the wheat we managed to secure the order. The pallet of bunches of wheat were dispatched to go towards the bouquets for the Olympic medallists. What great excitement it was to see the bouquets on the tv not just 1 but 5000.”

“This all came about during the year when the business has been passed to the next generation so it all seemed so appropriate and well worth all the hard work of the past 25 years.”