Welcome to the Origin Flower Farm RU-vid channel! I'm Victoria, a flower farmer and floral designer in Northern Ireland. My design style is 'wild and romantic', with all our flowers being grown organically and sustainabily.
I am excited to share my journey with everyone on RU-vid. I really want to connect with all of you who love flowers and flower growing, whether on a farm, or in your garden - so jump into the comments and share your own journey or ask me some questions!
We run workshops, style events and design beautiful wedding flowers throughout the year. Our workshops are as relaxing as they are informative and we love creating space for wellness and retreat.
Our weddings are wild and romantic with all the seasonal pickings that lend themselves to beautiful displays. We sell flower bouquets from March until October. Our seasonal bouquets are eco friendly and harvested straight from our fields. We also host private parties, hen parties and birthday parties.
Hi nice dahlias..wouldn't be ok if I can buy some seeds formed in ur dahlia plots I'm a tropical farmer in the Philippines and I gres dahlias too! Is it possible u can send seeds any seeds will do I can save money to send to u via western union please!!
hello what a beautiful field! Your unknown at 16mins could be Isabel (more purple) its very similar to Caitlin's Joy (more pink) both are sports of cornel (a red ball)
I am loving your videos 🤩 only just discovered your channel and I am so happy with the information and timing of planting and just little tips and shared experience ❤ thank you! ❤ keep them coming, especially over winter month when some hope into the next season is sooo needed and appreciated.
Love your videos about Dahlia’s. How many dahlias do you grow? Also wondering why you interact the dahlias rather than growing one variety altogether??
Thank you for watching! I grow around 1000 dahlias. I spread them out as I start potting up each variety at different weeks so that when the earlier ones start to get tired the later ones are still strong!
Nice to see you again. Fostering is a wonderful thing to do. Here on the Sussex coast, it basically rained from October to April (left in my dahlias, most rotted), Half of my allotment flooded, then we had a cold, dry spring which went on till mid June. Things were therefore planted late, and then we have had slug and snail apocalypse. I planted a bed of snaps in March and they have been fantastic. So not a great growing year but getting ready to get ahead with hardy annuals. xx
The weather been a struggle! And we are now having constant rain. Hardy annuals here we go! Absolutely love snaps, the scent & the colours. Such a joy in the garden ❤️
I'm sitting here watching all your back shows the first time I found you on the phone and it's March of 2024 right now for me so I'm waiting for my plants at all we've had a few nice days but not playing a few things but yeah I'm the one with the 30 gardens at memorial Park in New Kensington PA and I enjoy it I've been I've been doing it for 20 years out there so okay talk to you later and watching your show okay bye
I think that's the first time I've seen your show yeah I love watching all these flower farms I'm from Pennsylvania and I have 30 gardens at memorial Park in New Kensington PA and I just love it I've been doing it for 20 years out there I do a few bouquets for people just to come out and see and I do fairy gardens and I get community service kids out there to help and and girl scouts boy scouts in the valley high School kids come out to so yeah it's fun I just really enjoy it my phone keeps going off so sorry about that nice watching your show so thank you okay bye
Beautiful, I have just gotten in to dahlia’s. So thankful I do not have to dig up every year. I can winter over in the ground. I have a tiny cottage with a small garden and I have more flower beds then lawn. Thank you for your beautiful inspiration.
Hey, when talking about #5 Jowey Nicky, in the video you have that super purple dahlia in the background with dark stems. What’s the name of that one , please?
I’m so glad I found your channel. I’ve been enjoying your videos. Forgive me if you’ve answered any of these questions in previous videos, but what size are your poly tunnels and what zone are you in? Thank you!
Oh thank you for watching! The polytunnel are different sizes. Two of them are 16ft x 60ft, one is 16x 54, and the one we use for events is 24ft x 48ft. I am in zone 8/9 😊
I'm in zone 9b (Florida) and ordered ranunculus. We'll see how they do in my climate. I find snapdragons and strawflowers do well here so that's my go during the cooler months.
@@OriginFlowersNI yes, very hot and humid. This year was one of the hottest ones I've experienced. It can get cold for a few days in January or February but it's relative. What your body reacts to is the drop in temperature. During winter months one day can be in the 30's and the next day in low teens so the change in temperature is what makes it feel cold where as if it was further up north the lower temp wouldn't be a bid deal.
I absolutely love ranunculus, they are a staple in my cut flower beds. In fact, I think I will be bumping my stock from 100 to 400 for the 2024 season. I don't start mine until Feb. 1st-ish.
Really good tips and great to have a UK RU-vidr! However, I think there is probably a big difference between cut flowers for weddings (which only need to last a day or two) and those for the vase? I'm not a big flower arranger, just want to cut a few perennials from the garden and know they will be minimal fuss, and last for at least a week. And I find foliage difficult too as the stems taken from many shrubs wilt really quickly. I would LOVE a couple of videos focussing on foliage (and tips for longevity), and long lasting perennials for the vase.
Brilliant, yes absolutely they are picked at a different stage for weddings as the flowers need to be more open. I will do a foliage video. What a great idea, thank you!
I go away first 2 weeks September every year. This year I had someone to harvest while am away. Last year the Dahlia had said game over by thw time I got back. So nice to come back to healthy flowers.
My perennials saved me this year. I moved annual flower field and had no autumn sown annuals. I have a well established perennial garden at home on half an acre. The down side is there were no flowers in my garden😂
