About

Hello, I'm MX, I am currently flower farming from two small plots of land in Derbyshire, and I am looking to scale to a good sized farm next year. This year I have grown just over one hundred varieties from seeds and tubers including sweet peas, poppies, cosmos, dahlias, strawflowers, ammi majus, orlaya, nigella, scabious, yarrow, feverfew, larkspur, ranunculus, cornflowers, zinnia, marigolds and various other flowers and foliage. I know the general advice is to focus on a small number of flowers but I can't help it and I also just wanted to trial and test as many as possible to get a feel for them in my first year so I can better decide what to focus on when I scale up. Currently we have many varieties of sweet peas in full bloom with poppies and strawflowers going next with plenty of buds. It is such a joy to harvest them after a good number of months working on caring for them from seeds. I'm also working towards my RHS level 2 qualification, hoping to gain good knowledge to look after my flower farm in order to produce premium quality blooms consistently. It has been a steep learning curve and I'm physically exhausted on most days, but I LOVE it ! It is a wonderful community to be part of, I look forward to meeting you all. Best, Mingxuan (MX)