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Little Bell Florals

Growing and selling seasonal flowers on our family farm in South Lincolnshire March - October
Retail and wholesale.

Bouquets, jam jars, pick your own and buckets for arranging yourself.
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04/09/2026

The seedlings sown back in June and July are now planted in the ground.
These are biennials. Seeds sown in the summer, potted on and then planted out in the autumn so they can get a good root system before winter. They then lie dormant over the cold months before coming back to life and growing again when the weather warms up.
We then have flowers in early Spring to make into our bouquets and jam jars.
After another 12mm of rain today they have had a good drink and are ready to establish themselves before the winter.

01/09/2026

Just finalising dates for Christmas workshops and wreaths. All will be announced soon

26/08/2026

A part of my plan for more flowers for the 2027 season is to buy plug plants.

The reason for this is that seed germination can be so erratic depending on the quality of the seed.
I either end up with so many plants to pot on or hardly any.
So to increase the amount of seedlings if I have some that fail, I am buying in plug plants from a fellow flower farmer and grower based in North Yorkshire. Picked at Dawn
I will admit I have been blown away by the quality of the plugs. So much better than those from larger plant companies.
It shows that buying from small businesses is the best way as they give so much care and attention to everything they grow.

As the growing year for 2027 continues I will be looking at buying more so that the flowers in the field will be more abundant. I am so looking forward to seeing how they grow and develop

24/08/2026

It has been an amazing and busy year so far here at Little Bell Florals with florist, subscription and other orders.
A challenging and at times very tough growing period with 5 heatwaves, prolonged drought and eventually a hosepipe ban has made me look at how I can move forward with how I grow and supply flowers for 2027.
1: The biggest aim is to have more of the favourite flowers at different times. So I’m creating a seed sowing plan which will include succession sowings of all of the spring and summer flowers.
2: I am looking through seed and plant catalogues for late summer flowering, drought tolerant varieties that can help continue the season.
3: I am going to invest in more soaker hose irrigation. With the drought and subsequent hose pipe ban this year, recommendations for businesses is to use soaker hoses as the water goes straight to the roots and doesn’t evaporate. These can be used on a timer for certain times of the day.
4: An investment in the popular flowers will start this year with a new bed being prepared for roses and then peonies.
This will include a change around in the field for the permanent perennial beds.

I have always said since starting Little bell Florals 3 years ago that it needed time to establish and grow. Small steps every year, which I have done.
I now have an established and loyal customer base with florist and private sales, so it is time to grow more so that I can continue supplying flowers to you all.
I am looking to improve this way so there are no gaps in between each flower’s season so we have a continuous supply.

If you have bought from us this year so far then I would like to say a huge thank you. It is always a pleasure to supply people with flowers and something I love doing throughout the whole growing process.
As we always say in our family about our farming life, things can and will get better.
Thank you for reading.

20/08/2026

Why do we sow seeds in the summer to flower next spring?

These plants are called biennials. They are sown in June, potted on and then planted in the Autumn.
Their roots then establish themselves before winter arrives so they can lie dormant, before coming back to life in early Spring.
These give us flowers from mid Spring onwards, to use with tulips and other early spring flowers and include foxgloves, sweet williams, sweet rocket, wallflowers and aquilegia.

18/08/2026

UPDATE FROM THE FIELD

An update on what has been happening in the flower field here at Little Bell Florals.

1: After the drought and five heatwaves since May, this has played havoc with the flowers in the field.
So I made the decision to concentrate on the flowers that are late summer flowering. Dahlias, cosmos, zinnia and strawflowers.
I had the first cut from the dahlias today.

2: The main job is to keep feeding them with some watering as well

3: Sweet Williams.
Next years Spring flowers have been sown. Two sowings so we have a succession of blooms.

4: Wallflowers

5: Rocket white and purple covered with a net protection as the cabbage white butterfly loves to lay their eggs on them.

6: A successful germination of Aquilegia Barlow mixed

7: British grown plug plants of seeds that weren’t successful, bought in from Yorkshire, including echinacea, achillea pearl and gypsophilia.

8: The finished flowers have been removed ready for the plants to go in the field by the beginning of September.

9: The next big job. W**d, tidy up and move plants around in the perennial bed.

10: This photo was taken in the Spring of the preparation of a new bed that will be planted up by the end of the year.

26/07/2026

July has been a very busy month with harvest starting very early, gift bouquets and end of school year gifts.
Thank you so much to everyone that ordered from me this month. It means
a lot.

14/07/2026

Special hardworking visitors in the flower field today.
It’s this time of year when all of the hard work throughout the year on the main farm hopefully pays off with our harvest.

In the meantime in the field the dahlias are looking well. There are a small amount of other summer flowers as well that will keep us going until the Autumn

The main job now is clearing away the flowers that have finished for the year and preparing the field for next years flowers.

The flowers for next year are already in progress with the biennials including foxgloves, sweet williams and rocket, sown and ready this week for potting on before being planted out in the prepared field by September. A second sowing was finished last week, so we have a longer supply for next spring.

I am at the moment looking through the tulip catalogues deciding what to order ready for November planting and I’m also deciding on what Autumn sown seeds to have this year.

Busy busy times and I love it.

08/07/2026

Not long to go now until the end of the school year.
It’s time to think about gifts for those special teachers, preschool assistants and teaching assistants.
Our bouquets and jam jars are available to preorder.

******PREORDER BY 13TH JULY.******

To guarantee an order it is much better to preorder.
British flowers that are either grown here in our field or by other local growers.

Prices range from £5 for a jam jar and between £10 and £25 for bouquets depending on size.

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01/07/2026

End of school year teacher gifts available to preorder up to 13th July.

Bouquets and jam jar posies made using flowers grown here on our farm and from other local growers.

Grown from British seed and tubers, with pride and a passion to provide only the best seasonal British flowers for our customers.

Cut to order and conditioned before arranging so that you have the freshest, beautiful flowers to gift to that special teacher.

Ready for when you require them with collection or delivery at an arranged time, with payment by cash, card or bank transfer.

Pre order is essential to guarantee an order.
So orders need to be received by 13th July as I can’t guarantee there will be available flowers after that date.

Buy British. Buy local

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Hop Pole
Deeping Saint Nicholas
PE113HW

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