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FLOWER FARMING COURSES Rose Growing for Cut Flowers Workshop Monday 19 May 2025
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Rose Growing for Cut Flowers Workshop Monday 19 May 2025

£100.00

IN-PERSON WORKSHOP

Monday 19 May 2025

11am-3pm

MILL POND FLOWER FARM, FOULDEN, BERWICKSHIRE

TD15 1UL

£100 per person

Refreshments and light lunch included

A specialist in-person workshop that looks in detail at growing roses as cut flowers, including how to choose, establish and nurture plants and which varieties are recommended for growing as cut flowers in the UK.

If you want to grow roses as cut flowers on a relatively small scale, but aren’t sure how to do it to get the very best results, this workshop is for you! It is based on Paula’s experience of growing thousands of roses for sale as cut flowers over the past 12 years in the Scottish Borders, without the use of pesticides or herbicides. It includes information on cutting and conditioning roses at the stages to achieve the best quality blooms for wedding, events and retail sales.

Paula has run on-farm workshops on rose growing during the past 8 years, presented on Rose Growing at the Flowers from the Farm Conference in 2019, and wrote a popular online course on Rose Growing for The Business of Selling Flowers.

This is a rare chance to learn how we grow our roses at Mill Pond Flower Farm, both under cover and outside.

The workshop will cover

  • Choosing varieties and rose types

  • Buying stock

  • Planting and growing

  • Pruning for cut flowers

  • Cutting and conditioning

  • Selling roses

Limited spaces available

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IN-PERSON WORKSHOP

Monday 19 May 2025

11am-3pm

MILL POND FLOWER FARM, FOULDEN, BERWICKSHIRE

TD15 1UL

£100 per person

Refreshments and light lunch included

A specialist in-person workshop that looks in detail at growing roses as cut flowers, including how to choose, establish and nurture plants and which varieties are recommended for growing as cut flowers in the UK.

If you want to grow roses as cut flowers on a relatively small scale, but aren’t sure how to do it to get the very best results, this workshop is for you! It is based on Paula’s experience of growing thousands of roses for sale as cut flowers over the past 12 years in the Scottish Borders, without the use of pesticides or herbicides. It includes information on cutting and conditioning roses at the stages to achieve the best quality blooms for wedding, events and retail sales.

Paula has run on-farm workshops on rose growing during the past 8 years, presented on Rose Growing at the Flowers from the Farm Conference in 2019, and wrote a popular online course on Rose Growing for The Business of Selling Flowers.

This is a rare chance to learn how we grow our roses at Mill Pond Flower Farm, both under cover and outside.

The workshop will cover

  • Choosing varieties and rose types

  • Buying stock

  • Planting and growing

  • Pruning for cut flowers

  • Cutting and conditioning

  • Selling roses

Limited spaces available

IN-PERSON WORKSHOP

Monday 19 May 2025

11am-3pm

MILL POND FLOWER FARM, FOULDEN, BERWICKSHIRE

TD15 1UL

£100 per person

Refreshments and light lunch included

A specialist in-person workshop that looks in detail at growing roses as cut flowers, including how to choose, establish and nurture plants and which varieties are recommended for growing as cut flowers in the UK.

If you want to grow roses as cut flowers on a relatively small scale, but aren’t sure how to do it to get the very best results, this workshop is for you! It is based on Paula’s experience of growing thousands of roses for sale as cut flowers over the past 12 years in the Scottish Borders, without the use of pesticides or herbicides. It includes information on cutting and conditioning roses at the stages to achieve the best quality blooms for wedding, events and retail sales.

Paula has run on-farm workshops on rose growing during the past 8 years, presented on Rose Growing at the Flowers from the Farm Conference in 2019, and wrote a popular online course on Rose Growing for The Business of Selling Flowers.

This is a rare chance to learn how we grow our roses at Mill Pond Flower Farm, both under cover and outside.

The workshop will cover

  • Choosing varieties and rose types

  • Buying stock

  • Planting and growing

  • Pruning for cut flowers

  • Cutting and conditioning

  • Selling roses

Limited spaces available

BOTTOM-UP BEEKEEPING

I’m Ray Baxter, beekeeper & amateur scientist living in the Scottish Borders. My second favourite hobby is pottery and I’m looking forward to one day joining the two hobbies together. I live and work on our flower farm half way up a very windy Scottish hillside.

I’ve been researching the debris produced by honey bee colonies & writing a book to document what I’ve learned from looking at the hive floor and exploring how this can help beekeepers. The book will be titled Bottom up Beekeeping and will be published in August 2025.

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Why am interested in bee debris?

It is through careful observation that we see the subtle changes, which in turn throws up questions and make links to connect stories from within the colony and the wider environment. I have spent many hours going through scientific papers to explain debris patterns and trends. Sometimes this is illuminating, often the search comes up blank - frequently it feels like I’m trying to tell a story of something that sits outside of scientific understanding. Much more detective work is needed to unravel many of these secrets.

Studying debris is like being a bee detective - slowly getting all your clues together to make small breakthroughs - oh that’s a mite, that’s a chalkbrood cyst, that’s a drone antennae, a stellate trichrome etc, slowly looking at debris for a year. Slowly over time it has become possible to understand more of that story and ask many more questions.

Through the research I could feel the learning becoming deeper and wider. Unexpectedly I have found through regular interaction becoming closer to the bee colony world. Reaffirming just how precious the biology of the colony is. It’s so much more than box of bees, rather a patchwork of complex relationships between many living and non living factors from the local environment. Trying to make sense of those links through the study of debris has been addictive and a hugely rewarding experience.

MILL POND FLOWER FARM

New Mains, Foulden, Berwickshire, TD15 1UL

Email: paula@millpondflowerfarm.co.uk Phone 07411502798