Welcome to Sundays at Lark Rose, an in-depth round up of what goes on in my developing flower farm business for paid subscribers. I’m Olivia and this is all about Lark Rose, a flower farm in South Ayrshire near the West Coast of Scotland that I started in my back garden in 2021. I started developing an overgrown half-acre walled garden plot in 2023, and I’m learning every day how to run a tiny business. If you’re aspiring to start your own flower farm, are in the early stages of that journey, want week-by-week guidance for your flowers at home or are interested in the (often bumpy!) path of growing a business, this is for you.
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This week
It’s still raining, the wind is still blowing, the cats, dogs, chickens and rabbits are still fed up with it all. February holds my youngest’s birthday and my wedding anniversary, but is still the month I find hardest. The days may be getting lighter and the buds appearing, but the weather is preventing me from doing all the work at the plot that desperately needs done before I can even start on the mile-long list of stuff to do. All the baby plants and shrubs I bought over the winter are heeled in at my home garden, but I need to clear beds for them to go to the plot before they get growing in earnest. Roses need pruned and moved into final positions, the earliest annuals need sown, frames for climbers need built. The overwhelm is real, and I’m having to deploy a lot of tactics to deal with it! There’s nothing new worth showing at the plot, so have a picture of one of the coping tactics - dog walks at the beach (this is just a couple of roads from my house, so a regular coping mechanism).
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