22 September 2024

Balancing The Scales

At the time of writing, we’re yet to officially sound the gong on the end of our 2024 season, but just like summer transitioning in to autumn, all the signs are there. We still have plenty of flowers to offer beautiful late summer stems such as dahlias and sunflowers, but...

2 May 2024

Farm Update: May 2024

We’ve said goodbye to the tulips for another year and as always, they did not disappoint. The beds for these are already cleared so we won’t be seeing these beauties again now until next spring. Our poppies are somewhat more of an emotional rollercoaster. We had a bumper crop last...

3 March 2024

Rain Makes The Flowers Grow

You need rain to make the flowers grow, so the saying goes. Which is true, but before those flowers are even flowers, you also need it to stop flipping raining so you can plant the seedlings. What a soggy winter it’s been. When we’re not in season and harvesting flowers,...

14 December 2023

Petalon Gift Guide

If you’re starting to feel like time to get to the shops is running out, never fear, we are here to save you from panic-filled evenings Googling ‘unique gifts’ and sifting through the 180,000 pages of results. We’re also here to tell you that last minute gifts can still be...

19 October 2023

A Chrysanthemum Conundrum

By this time in the season, we’d normally expect to have a few more chrysanthemums than we do right now. We’ve gone from having five beds of them to two. Earlier in the year we found out the nursery where we get our chysanthemum plugs from had suffered a huge...

27 July 2023

Here Come The Dahlias

Our dahlias are just starting to ramp up which compared to last year, when they were in full swing by now, is a pretty late start to the season. Such is British weather – no year is quite the same. Growing dahlias is an interesting endeavour, especially when it comes...

24 May 2023

Our first ever homegrown signature bouquet

When Petalon first started, we knew we were heading in to an industry that was typically unkind on the environment. While in our early days of being a one-woman show based in East London, there wasn’t too much we could do to tackle the way the billion-dollar cut flower industry...

4 May 2023

Farm Update: May 2023

So far this year, we’ve sold every single stem we’ve grown on the farm, which is an absolute dream come true. March and April were a whirlwind of tulips, poppies, ranunculus and our fancy daffs (those white ones, oof). We’ve also seen some absolutely incredible customer photos of our flowers...

21 April 2023

The Cornish Food Bank

Our farm it situated near the North Cornish coast. There is no denying that this is a gorgeous part of the world, and while most people are familiar with it from holidays to visit its outstanding natural beauty that is far from all that Cornwall is. Like many areas that...

9 March 2023

B Corp

We are a flower business that tries to do good in an industry where there is plenty of bad. But we would say that, wouldn’t we? Like other businesses in our situation we are susceptible to accusations of green-washing, white-washing and other unenviable types of washing. When you take a...

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