Cornish Flowers: The Appeal of Locally Grown Blooms

Updated August 2026

This post first appeared back in 2013 as a short feature on a flower grower near Hayle. Looking at it again more than a decade later, what stood out was not really the business name, but the idea behind it: flowers grown locally, picked in season and shaped by the place they come from.

That still feels worth celebrating.

Flowers with a sense of place

There is something particularly lovely about flowers that have not been separated from the seasons. Instead of expecting exactly the same blooms throughout the year, locally grown flowers change as spring gives way to summer and summer to autumn.

Here in Cornwall, narcissi and daffodils are an especially familiar part of the landscape in spring, followed by all sorts of garden flowers as the year moves on. A locally grown bouquet can therefore feel a little more individual, reflecting what happens to be at its best at that moment.

Our original Cornish flower feature

When we first wrote this article, we had come across the Cornish Flower Shop, which was based on a farm outside Hayle. The flowers were grown overlooking St Ives Bay, picked regularly and changed with the seasons.

We have kept a few of the photographs from that original article here. They are a nice little piece of The Cornwall Blog's history, and a reminder that interest in locally grown and seasonal flowers is certainly nothing new.

A more recent flower-growing project

Flowers have found their way into our working lives again more recently too. Over at Pickle Design, we created a new website for The Natural Flower Field Co., a small-scale flower farm in Piddinghoe, East Sussex.

Although it is a little way from Cornwall, there is a similar love of seasonal flowers at the heart of the business. The website needed to feel calm and natural while making it easy to explore bouquets, wedding flowers, farewell flowers and other seasonal offerings.

You can see our work with The Natural Flower Field Co. in the Pickle Design portfolio.

Choosing flowers grown closer to home

Whether you are buying a bouquet, arranging flowers for a wedding or simply want something cheerful for the kitchen table, it can be worth looking for growers working with the seasons. Part of the pleasure is not knowing exactly what will be available until the flowers are ready.

And perhaps that is what we liked about this old article when we rediscovered it. The photographs may be from 2013, but flowers grown with the seasons never really go out of date.