How I became a flower farmer - a long journey with many twists, turns and skills transferred x

well I thought it'd be worth doing a clip on how I became a flower farmer I'm very inspired by my friend Jane Lindsay at Snapdragon life and she made a clip recently about how she became a textile artist and develop the business that she has now up in her studio in L Loman and I really recommend you go and have a look so I thought yeah good idea I'll do a piece about how I became a flower farmer for all of you and it might be interesting not because you want to necessarily be a flow farmer but sometimes people are looking for ways to find a path through life and I don't think my path is particularly unusual or groundbreaking but no two people have the same path and so it's sometimes helpful to say uh I did it this way and you might go oh oh okay that's a thought I hadn't thought about that so so uh come along and I'm going to introduce you to the journey I have taken in order to become a flower farmer and it starts of course with books and if you're new to the channel you're very welcome please do subscribe press the Bell icon and we'll tell you when we've got more Clips coming up and if any of the tips and tricks I give you along the way are useful you can always buy me a coffee or better still join my club uh the links to Coffee buying and club membership are in the blur to all my Clips right on we go well maybe my journey to be flow farmer goes further back than books but uh the Tipping Point uh perhaps was caused by books I was a writer and wasn't making any money and as a single person I was quite good at uh living on other people's expense accounts and on a relative shoestring if you're a young person you can live on broccoli and um and not much else uh and then earn very little money as a writer so I that's how I had functioned until I met my husband fito uh we ended up here in this beautiful spot in Somerset we put everything we had into this Farm it's a 7 acre patch and we were fantasists we thought we would be uh Market gardeners we had all the old John Seymour books which were written in the 70s and inspired a whole lot of self-sufficiency and we loved all of that idea we were very into that but I had yet to learn to be a little bit strategic and I was very bad with money CU I'd never had to be I had lived literally on air as a single person until my mid-30s and um I so I could afford to write books and not make very much money then I found and I had small children and a mortgage and I needed an income teacake so you might think I would just get a job like a normal person but I had grown up I am the child of people who've always worked for themselves my mother made patri quilts for a living when I was a child and still is quilting now any of you who've watched my mom's quilting clip she's still quilting my dad computer software design in Cambridge England in the 70s started his own business has always worked for himself so working for myself was normal I haven't worked for anybody else since I was about 27 and I'm 57 on Sunday so 30 years of not working for other people I used to think I'm not a team player well no I don't think I am I can't be maybe a team play so one of the ways that you know you end up being what you are your career is often you know very much different by your character and uh I'm not very good at doing what other people tell me to do good to be honest about these things anyway I had been writing books but wasn't making enough money and I needed to make a living I had two very very small children and I was was living in rural Somerset I had no useful qualifications and didn't really know what I wanted to do this clip I never words so as a child I had determined to be an actor because I had had some success in a play called hu at the age of seven so 50 years ago in a mar key behind St Colette School in Cambridge uh I had the peak of my career according to my father who still says you peaked when you were seven so um I was much praised for my performance in hu and became Adept at declaring and declaiming poetry and very keen on theater so I used to win prizes at the speech and Dr drama Festival in Cambridge and as a child I was really very I thought acting was my the way forward but I lived in a house with a big garden and my mother was a very keen Gardener but we were not the sorts of people who sat and looked at the Garden from a very early age I understood that the Garden in in order to enjoy the garden one had to engage with it it was an activity and my mother paid me to weed by the yard so 10 p a yard this is a very long time ago we had Pence we did have Pence but we were still dealing in yards so I was paid to weed 10p a yard and I can still spot a grounda Seedling at about 50 Paces so I understood that there could be an economic relationship between me and the garden but I'm not my mother I'm quite like my mother uh but I'm not my mother my mother loves a garden which is purely beautiful it is as fiddly an activity as you can possibly imagine her garden is 3/4 of an acre do look at her the clips about her garden it's it's it's a paradise and takes so much work I don't have the patience plus I also need to make a living so my garden takes much less work much more ruthless blocks of this or that or the other thing but anyway there we are I'm here at common Farm aged 42 with two very small children and I need to make a living we moved here with the idea that we would be Market gardeners so we immediately made a vegetable patch uh about the size of a tennis court you know we were ambitious but we also had pigs and chickens and sheep all sort you know we were really going full John Seymour self-sufficiency I very quickly discovered I don't like looking after um livestock the chickens were either eaten by the fox or a friend's dog or I was constantly treating them for spidermite very hard work chickens nice but hard work I may go back to having them one day but I will never have pigs or sheep again no and then one day as my writing career founded because this was at the beginning of social media and if you were out of sight you were very much out of mind and I had been in London where I would see people who would say oh you're a writer oh yes you're the UN successful novelist well will you write the content for my uh catalog or will you help develop television programs or will you ghost write a piece about the book that goes with this television program or will you uh I did a travel book for think publisher I mean I did lots of books I published 10 books in my time but never really made any money out of it uh and if you're not in in those days if you weren't in front of people they didn't think of you for these jobs so I I was really struggling and then somebody sent me a bunch of flowers in the post and I thought I can do that I can grow Bunches of flowers and because I'm a sort of mean person who uh always likes to look a gift horse in the mouth I actually looked up online to see how much that bunch of flowers cost and I was very impressed and I thought well I too could grow a bunch of flowers and so my journey growing flowers for sale honesty sweet peas began we had a frost Lo last night it's the end of April so I covered everything up now being a bit of a poana I thought I'll start growing flowers for sale and they'll kind of sell themselves I strategized nothing I made no business plan I threw myself into my Venture assuming assuming that all would be well and so for the first few years we carried on living on Broccoli I call them I call them the no baby sitter years they were the years when I when I learned on the job how to be a flower farmer it wasn't at the time there weren't books like Lenny Lin's book that's just come out about how to make a profit as a flower farmer my book The Flower Farmers year was years away and I have this morning finished written the end of the entire rewrite of the book so hold your breath it's coming out spring 2025 so I had to learn an enormous amount on the job but slowly slowly I became a flower farmer slowly slowly I became a flower farmer and over the years I became better at it more Adept I kind of developed a process which I could then teach other people and I don't teach people that you must do X Y or Zed what I do is teach people to think to identify their objectives and how they can achieve them I give all sorts of options to look at and help them come to an objective which will suit them there are so many different kinds of flower Farmers I am I grow mostly for bespoke orders while I do wholesale it's a very very high-end bespoke situation with really good quality luxury wedding florists do have a look at my chat with uh Caroline redpath of Flur provocator to find out more about how the relationship between me and the luxury wedding florist works I've done my time at the at the at the high end of luxury wedding flowers so I appreciate very much the work that goes into that and I've chosen to step back so I do what I call Affordable Wedding Flowers which is more a buckets and Posies setup so I do a lot of those through the year I do a lot of work with people like Caroline I have private clients whose houses I keep filled with flowers that's a lovely Gig if you can get it I have really strong relationships with my clients and over 15 years I've built this business but I'm still performing the year-old having a success at hassu never became an actor but the skills I learned when I was standing up in front of people I learned to breathe properly I learned to project I learned to speak slowly so that people at the back can catch up and then over the years I have learned to trust that so long as I know my subject I can impart effectively good quality information which will help other people achieve their goals and so my business has gone from just just just flower farming to one where I help other people I educate other people to achieve their objectives not finished yet just a final note on the subject of Performing I carried on doing theater masses and masses of theater as much as I could all the way through school until I left University and um actually I went to the polch what is now the poly Technic University of West of England it was Bristol poly Technic where I read Humanities and I came across a subject called anthropology and I have found that the most useful subject throughout my career ever since because sorry about the wind it taught me to be interested in how people work in groups and to look for patterns and behaviors which keep people together this has helped me Teach which has become a really big part of my business helping other people achieve their dreams has become a major part and being able to see as people walk into my studio how they behave together people walk in wearing uniforms they don't think so they think I'm getting dressed I'm going but actually everything we wear tells us a huge amount about each other the way that we sit the way that we behave the way that we speak and by being able to look at that it makes it possible for me to to bring people into a conversation because I can see that they're not on the defensive they're nervous they're not angry they're afraid they're uncertain and so they rely on their on their background to give them strength so anthropology has been incredibly helpful it's helped me how it's helped me sell my flowers it's helped me build relationships with my customers so everything you do in life gives you skills that you can use whatever business at no point during my college days did I think I I might be using any of this information to be a flower farmer but I do I do and you know I examine my life all the time and I find where my skills are and I apply them because they're there and you too have all of these things you may not have done anthropology you you will have done another subject which will serve you very well over the years through your life you will have learned skills which will serve you very well be transferable skills so flower farming yes it helps if you know how to sew seeds weed the ground that you understand that there can be a financial relationship between gardening and uh and life but all the other skills that you learn along the way are helpful and can be applied all of them um so I'm not a brilliant performer and I know that there are of course there are much much better horticulturalists out there much better florists but all those years of Performing have made it me very good at communicating and I have to say I think in life false modesty is foolish so find out think about what you are good at you might not want to be a flower farmer you might be have some dream that you really want to achieve so look at what you have now that you already have which will help you achieve your dream and be honest about it are you a good communicator if you're a good communicator it seems a shame to drop that skill Al together grow flowers in a field in the middle of nowhere and sell a whole lot wholesale and never speak to anybody I would posit that if you're a very good communicator that makes you feel good if you're good at communicating and without it you'll feel like there'll be a little me something missing so you are allowed to communicate whatever whatever you're good at you allowed to teach it you're very it'll be good it'll be helpful somebody will benefit from it that's all that's that's the Performing thing so I have no dreams now of Leaping about on the stage but I'm not going to ignore the fact that I can speak slowly and clearly that Mrs blly taught me to finish my words and use my consonants so that you can hear even when I'm not wearing a microphone and that's a skill and I'm not going to ignore it anyway on I'm still flower farming I've got to I'm going to cut some Blossom uh for my orders you might notice that some of the some of the material I'm cutting today is very very garish colors and uh my club members and I oh here on YouTube I have a a club and the clubbers and I have a weekly chat during term time when we talk about different subjects which the club has suggest Gest and today's subject is working with color and I really love clashing difficult colors I'm much prefer the challenge of working with uncomfortable colors and as a florist I'm often asked you know do you know for weddings for example people don't want clashing colors they want pale pink and white or white and pale blue or yellow and white uh and so my challenge as a flower grower there are two things I have to do I have to one give my client flowers that absolutely blow their mind so they go They're the most beautiful thing but I also have to keep myself interested if you're going to be a flower farmer you know flower farming like any job is is repetitive uh and eventually can become quite boring so you've got to keep yourself interested and one of the ways I keep myself interested is by working with challenging colors [Music] so look dark red leaf crab apple blossom I love this love it um to go with some of those tulips that I've cut this morning amongst so I'm cutting for various orders I cut to order I don't just opportunistically cut other people have different kinds of businesses other people might have um you know do gate sales and they just cut the field put the flowers in the gate in their shed at the gate have somebody there to take the money or have a a card machine so they're they're cutting opportunistically in the hope the people will buy um if you take flowers to Market Farmers Market that's how you're doing it I have a system where I cut to order so people order their flowers and then I cut them specially um neither one nor the other is better than the other it's just a different way of doing things and it means that you can choose how your business you know you can choose how your business runs clubbers here's a tip you see how these this is fully out here uh but I then it goes on to be quite a long stem so I'm cutting it off and I'm going to keep both one lovely stem another lovely stem wa not whatnot so I'm cutting some of these interesting colors to work with the to have a session with the clubbers this afternoon and we're going to make I'm going to do a demo for them with using really interesting colors um they've all been sending me really interesting questions and we'll have a discussion a live discussion about color in floristry which I'm really looking forward to I love my club I'm uh and that's one of the things about your flower farming career is that you start being a flower farmer you don't know where it's going to go you whatever your flower farming um your first year job is I can't the one thing I can guarantee is that if you're still growing flowers for sale 5 or 10 years down the line your business model will have changed because the market will have changed so you'll evolve with it your skills will grow so you'll evolve with it you know you might start growing FL growing flowers and might end up being a full-time florist you might start off growing for wholesale and end up with a really busy shop retail you might like me start off growing flowers for sale find in I started 15 years ago nobody wanted to buy my flowers none of the florists wanted to buy my flowers because they were too expensive and British flowers had a really bad reputation for being floppy and low quality so they preferred to import their flowers from Holland which is perfectly reasonable that's their perogative nobody has to buy your flowers 15 years later and uh people are understanding the ecological cost of uh flowers being flown around the world and so there's a much greater interest in locally grown flowers so my market has expanded as has all of your markets around the world so um there is a market if you're thinking about flower farming yeah there is definitely a market but it's a much more competitive market than it was I used to be the only person in this area growing flowers for sale and now I can tell you five other people within about a 15 M radius that is not a bad thing it's very good for all of us these people are my colleagues they're not competition because our businesses are all different anyway back to how I got into FL farming I know I digress just one more thing on the color thing you know I was saying about how weddings often you know they're pink and white or yellow and white or blue and white and so my challenge is to not only keep it interesting for the customers so that they get ask with be at the beauty when I deliver them but also keep it interesting for me by working closely with color and really understanding color I can add colors into a pink and white wedding that the customer doesn't necessarily see they're expecting pink and white so they look for pink and white and they see pink and white the single yellow Buttercup which lifts the whole thing from being quite flat pink and white is quite flat and quite boring a little lick of yellow transforms quite a flat boring scheme into an ice cream shop it lifts it there's a great deal of joy in just a lick of yellow or a lick of orange I I send you all to douret wallpaper hand painted wallpaper where you will see very beautiful wallpaper and you if you identify what it is that makes that wallpaper really beautiful it may be a lick of orange on the back of a leaf like the UPS man's here I've got to go and see what he wants so no I didn't just leave college and become a flower farmer um as I said I was uh in my early 40s and I left College when I was 20 21 20 um so what happened next well I went to London and worked for a magazine publisher a company called Capital publishing and it was the late ' 80s early '90s and suddenly we went into this massive recession and so the company I was working for went bust and I found myself wondering what to do with myself so my friend Alex woods and I went to Paris because we were allowed to I have to say I think my whole career has been a great deal about being allowed to back in the day when we in the UK were members of the European Union young people or anyone who liked to could drive to Paris on a Sunday afternoon and get a job and I had done French a level so my French was appalling I had no idea how appalling it was but I had done all that theater so I was confident and I was used to stepping outside my comfort zone and there was a huge recession in London in England so I had to do something so we drove to Paris and after various mishaps I ended up working for American Vogue and which was the gear really a huge moment for me because I worked for an extraordinary woman called Miss Susan train and I recommend any of you look her up there's a wonderful article that was written on her 80th birthday by Joan Juliet Buck um which I think is available online uh she was an extraordinary woman she went to Paris after the war with her friend batina mcnalty who I got to know very well and she and batina were young women in Paris after the war they were so young that they had milk vouchers and they used to go to the dairy in the there was a dairy in the sth Ari small and they would go in the morning with their little can and fill it with milk anyway Susan was one of those people that if you're very lucky in life I really recommend if you're a young person watch out for these people there will be grown-ups that you come across who you can make very very good friends with who become like a God parent that you have chosen so they're not a family member that you can't choose who are just there they are somebody that you spot and hopefully they spot you and they are kind enough to share their wisdom and experience with you so Susan train taught me to make lists she taught me to be incredibly efficient uh she told me that I could do anything I wanted to do so long as I worked hard at it she told me that there was no such thing as a free lunch there is always a cost but if you know what that cost is you can take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way it was the gift of my life that I met Susan train and I think of her nearly every day and she taught me to do everything as well as I possibly could don't be slap Dash don't do something cuz you can't be bothered not to bother about everything and the nice thing about flower farming is is all about bothering you choose you have to make choices all the time you never just do randomly things um everything is a choice for example I am right now choosing to cut the uh off center weird curly whirly stems of my viburnum opulus I have sold all every single stem of this for next week it's being cut on Monday for delivery for an event next week but I know that the people I've sold them to want the straight stems so they'll have these lovely straight stems and I'll have the curly whirly bits thank you for my work today makes it more interesting for me it's more creative so I worked at American Vogue and the other person who came into my life then was a man called Andre lean tally uh so Susan sadley is long gone uh after an extraordinary life she was a legend onor uh she was on the on the committee of people who at the international wool Secretariat who gave the prizes to e s and Carl loger Feld when they broke onto the scene and she was she was like an adopted godmother to me I was very very lucky to come across her she taught me about refined living she taught that you didn't have to being gracious living is not about being rich it's about taking time to make things attractive and it is always worth doing that and then Andre tally another man you can look up extraordinary fellow he was very very tall uh enormous character huge voice he would come into the office and sort of um he would send faxes we used to get faxes and in the morning the first person to the office would always me cuz I wake up early um and I like to get on so I would get into the office early and he would have been in New York and there would be these reams of paper coming out of the fax machine with Andre's huge handwriting scrolled across the pages do this call so and so get the hat from riff at osc okay who am I to argue and he was very kind to I was you know an underling and he was very kind to all of us underlings and when he did trips I remember one time he went to um in Italy there's a town where a lot of the designers have their manufacturing bases called a I don't know how to pronounce it a e w Fe and whenever he went there he would come back with something for me very him I had a Prada like a basket a string bag uh not the you know fancy P sbag but a string bag from Prada and an Alberta Fetti sundress which I loved and I wore a more and more and a really great Moschino Patchwork Moschino Tweed skirt which I wore a more and more and more anyway he was very kind and he said what we do doesn't matter you know fashion of course fashion matters but you know compared to war or growing food so fashion doesn't matter but we may as well do it to the best of our ability and he said this as my friend Alana Loo Who is still a friend and is uh life coaching and career coaching in Paris hi Elana um and I were kneeling on the floor stuffing the arms of a hand painted silk chiffon Dior dress Couture dress we filling stuffing the arms gently with tissue paper and this one dress took a whole enormous box to send it to America for a shoot so he taught me to take pride in doing even the smallest most mundane things nothing is small enough to not do well and that was a that was a real a real lesson I enormous admiration for him um and I'm sad he's gone he and Susan are no longer with us but their lessons remain anyway so Vogue was a great place I learned packaging I learned to pack well I learned to make really efficient lists I learned to step out of my comfort zone at all times ringing up I remember ringing up Leonel at the Press office of Jean Paul goer in my execrable French but my French got better until one day I drove I remember I drove to work one day I had a little car and I drove over I was driving over the bridge from the Ila onto the Left Bank and I used to listen to the French radio in the morning in the car and they had our horoscopes every day and I used to listen to the horoscope and not really understand it and I remember the first day I understood my horoscope on the French radio that was a big day so I was pushing myself out of my comfort zone all the time it was a really really fantastic time um but I'm not a fashiony type so I wasn't going to stay in fashion forever but it was great fun in my 20s to be in Paris so I left Vogue I went to John gallano uh was very very bad at helping run his business appalling I worked incredibly hard for a year and then I thought I can't do this anymore I'm going to write books so we get on to books just back to color for a second I think this is something that came from my years at Vogue is um and working with Susan and Andre and everybody was I learned to see the detail so when I talked about the dour wallpaper before I didn't know what dour wallpaper was before I worked for Vogue but I was sufficiently interested that when I saw the shop in London I had a good look and was inspired and here are the details that you might find in a dour wallpaper in a real life lime branch of Lime Leaf so this is just coming into leaf and look at that incredible color but it's not just that zingy green look at the pink look at the pink and the pink is what's what gives the green interest so look that pink is AB absolutely astonishing and that is what makes a Lime Leaf useful and interesting in floristry and so that's what Vogue did it gave me it taught me to look for the lick of pink or the lick of orange yes Vogue taught me not to do what you were told was normal but to see something and wonder if you could do something interesting with it which is how I've learned for example that cow parsley makes a wonderful Cut Flower that Willow makes a wonderful wreath base that forget me not have long enough stems to cut yes I think I liked flower farming because there wasn't particularly um a model for me to copy I didn't even know what the term business model meant if I'm honest um but there was nothing there was because of the way that art there hadn't been really very many Artisan flower farmers in the UK when I started I mean there was Rachel SEC Creed at Green and gorgeous cell Robertson at Forever Green flowers in norfol but there weren't there was cl in Corall but there weren't really that many small Artisan flow Farmers so I I could I could create something without feeling as though I was doing it wrong or without people telling me I was doing it wrong so how did I become a flower farmer well when I stopped working for John gallano I decided I was going to write novels I was going to do what I'd always wanted to do and I had worked incredibly hard for John it was a very immersive experience uh so I was paid quite well but had no time to spend any of the money so I had a Year's pretty much a Year's worth of money in the bank so I thought I'll give myself a year write a book and who knows have a go my life had been one in which until then I'd been very lucky every time I had a go at something it worked I drove to Paris got a job was worked my experience was yeah have a go so I had a go and I was very very lucky my uh a friend of mine introduced me to an agent who sold my first book I got a two book deal for the eyew watering amount of about 10,000 quid I think this was in 1998 quite a lot of money but it was English money so I moved back to England from Paris because the exchange rate wasn't brilliant and that 10,000 quid went further in England than it did in Paris so I moved back to England wrote These two books and because my experience was that you just had to go and it worked I didn't pay enough attention I wrote the books published them and as with often with authors you know young people having a go I kind of assumed that publish being published was was the end was the OB the objective achieved I hadn't really thought about cash flow and so they did okay but they didn't make enough to live on and that's how I ended up I then fell into jobbing writing doing things like copywriting for catalogs or developing television programs or ghost writing books or whatever and that was all fun fine that was all great then I got married moved to Somerset ended up here at common farm and thought oh my goodness I have overreached myself I cannot afford to pay the monthly bills I can't afford to pay I can't afford to live here how are we going to do this still flying by the seat of my pants but remembering that economic imperative of being paid to weed by the odd by my mother the child of parent he'd never worked for anyone else either much I mean my father did when he first started out but um soon ended up working for himself my mother had taught me only last weekend we were talking about how she used to say never have a boss so I started flower farming growing flowers for sale and I'm very very lucky that I sold enough of them despite the fact I knew nothing about what I was doing I sold enough through the no babysitting years that I could learn on the job and it is flower farming that has taught me that the more that you learn about a process the more you stop and consider a process the more you strategize a process the more you think about why you're doing it what you're doing it for the more likely you are to have a success at it and so that's how my flower farming business has really become not just a business where I cut grow flowers for sale but also a teaching business and I teach flower farming but I also teach lifestyle businesses business running a lifestyle business because there wasn't a model when I started and I think a lot of people look at what people like me do on Instagram or YouTube or wherever and think it looks lovely but they don't know how to start and so I think it is my it is my privilege really my privilege to help people identify their objectives and work a way through so that they too can run a creative business something which doesn't necessarily have a model that they can copy something where they have to use their noodle all the time I am infinitely cleverer than I was when I started flower farming infinitely my brain is your brain is a muscle and it it you know the more you exercise it the bigger it gets the better it gets so my brain has been much more exercised will I flow fall for the rest of my life probably not because the books are still there in my head I have spent the winter rewriting the flower Farmers year thank you very much Bloomsbury for the commission and this morning I finished the first draft it needs a lot of work but you know I've done my first drop and what that's reminded me is that whatever job you you choose to do the brain power that goes into it is a muscle and the more you practice the better you get at it but I've also had a really lovely time this winter I've been reading and reading and reading I had forgotten last autum I was bored I'm honest I was really bored I was like done this for a long time good at it it pays a good enough living but I'm bored so I went and did a day a a personal development day with my friend Alice Armstrong scales and I came away from that remembering that really My First Love Before gardening before Paris before running a business before anything else My First Love is books and so watch this space but I have to remember to give myself permission to do it and I have to dare use the same courage that I used to start a flow F I have to say I think the reason I sold a flower farm with just like that was because I wasn't frightened of it I wasn't as frightened of it as I am about writing and the reason I frightened to writing is because I'm in awe of it because I love it so much I love books so much bad books good books eying books transporting books interesting books factual books fiction books I love books I love reading more than anything else more than anything else and the the way that one can get lost in writing in the same way that one can get lost reading is extraordinary I think I get lost in the same way when I'm doing floristry uh but there's physically very hard work R anyway we'll see maybe time for a change uh but that's my story of how I got into flower farming I I kind of fell into it and my neighbor sent me a bunch of flowers in the post I was already growing too many Sweet Peas I didn't want to keep pigs sheep or chickens anymore and I thought I can do that and I did it and along the way I've learned to run a business and I've learned I've learned to learn as well as to teach and that's why it's been a very good thing anyway uh that's how I got into flower filing good luck with your uh with your journey do share your dreams in the comments um if there is something that you would really love to do but you're nervous about or you don't know where to start or you need confidence put a comment in the in in the comments here because it won't just be me replying everybody replies to everybody's comments this is beginning to be a really um a really friendly Community where people are very supportive of one another uh take your lucky breaks keep an eye out for your lucky breaks I had a really lovely chat the other day with um I was in London for the royal royal geographical Society uh being trained to be a judge of the floristry at the Chelsea flly show yes I know very good and I was talking to somebody there and the Susan train the subject of Susan train came up and I was saying how she really became my mentor and the person I was talking to said how fantastic and then she launched you and I said no she didn't launch me but what she did was has give me the confidence that I could launch myself and if you can find somebody like that in life then that is your great Good Fortune anyway happy flower farming everybody I better go and do all that floristry now I've cut all those flowers I better get on but um have a lovely day do put comments I answer all the comments on my YouTube and uh I hope you've enjoyed the clip I fear it might be quite long but anyway enjoy bye right

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