OUR STORY
After working as a freelance florist and worked on flower farms for years, Louisa du Rose finally struck out on her own exciting flower farming adventure in 2022.
Never one to do things by halves, Louisa took on an established 2 acre flower farm in the rolling Somerset landscape and moved her family of five into the black timber barn on site.
‘Wildly natural’ is how Louisa du Rose describes both her style of floristry and the feel of this special site where soft, relaxed, arching growth of the flowers and foliage is favoured over regimented lines.
Bohemian Blooms is a warm and welcome place, the fields rich in colour, scent and wildlife. Louisa and her team grow in harmony with the seasons and as sustainably as possible never using harmful fertilisers and pesticides on the land or plastic floral foam in their floral arrangements.
When she’s not outside planting seeds, propagating plants or harvesting flowers accompanied by her inquisitive chickens, Louisa can be found in the flower studio end of the black barn, conditioning flowers and foliage for her florist customers or getting creative with wedding and funeral flowers for her private customers.
There’s never a dull or a still moment for a farmer-florist!
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
“I have had a love of plants and flowers from an early age, and I used to earn my pocket money as a child weeding my gran's garden. She was a very knowledgeable plantswoman and I absorbed so much from spending time with her.
My mum also loved flowers, and it was her ambition to fill every room of her house with them all year round; she never quite managed it!
Building on their passion, I decided to take up the gauntlet and started to grow seasonal flowers from seed. I became addicted, and was soon making bouquets for friends and selling flowers and plants at my garden gate.
It was here that I met my first bride-to-be who was buying one of my posies. We started chatting and she casually asked me if I would do her wedding flowers. She liked the fresh, scented, pretty flowers that were not available on the high street.
My cottage garden flowers lent themselves so beautifully to a natural, free-flowing design... I immediately said yes, and have never looked back.”
LOUISA DU ROSE
