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UK Grown Flowers and Plants

Here in the UK we grow a great variety of cut flowers and indoor plants, and many of those you buy will have been home grown. The main crops the UK grows are:

Flowering houseplants – including African violets, azaleas, begonias, kalanchoes, and potted bulbs.
Daffodils, narcissi and tulips – The UK is the world's biggest grower of cut flower daffodils: we even export daffodils to Holland! Early Narcissi are grown in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, mid-season in Lincolnshire, and later in the season in Scotland.
Chrysanthemums – widely grown throughout the UK, but mainly along the South Coast, in many varieties.
Foliage – a wide range grown of mostly hardy hedgerow types but some exotic too - there is even a tea plantation in the UK.
Lisianthus – a quite new flower but increasing in popularity, there is an excellent grower in Suffolk.
Alstroemeria - again like lisianthus growing in popularity, several growers around the UK.
Seasonal summer flowers – including asters, delphiniums, peonies, sweet williams, stocks, solidaster and sunflowers. Grown all around the UK but mainly in Lincolnshire and the South Coast.

If you would like to source trade/wholesale quantities of UK grown product please email info@flowers.org.uk for more information on the growers.


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