Featured supplier: Sweet Loving Flowers - seasonal wedding flowers
Jun 15th, 2008 by Katie
This week we’re pleased to introduce you to Sue Harper who, with her husband Pete, runs Sweet Loving Flowers supplying organic and seasonal wedding flowers for a stylish and sustainable wedding! Over to Sue:
Name: Sue Harper
Location: mid Wales
Tell us a bit about yourself and your business
Growing and selling seasonal cut flowers is something I’ve wanted to do for many years now.
My husband Pete and I are both organic gardeners and we started the business 2 years ago. We are building up the cutting garden, planting shrubs and perennials, as my hope is that eventually we’ll be able to offer arrangements for weddings at any time of year.
What or who inspires you?
The flowers inspire me, I still never cease to be amazed by the intricacy, beauty, and variety of them and in the case of annuals, the feat of so many flowers, so quickly growing from one little seed is always magical.
I’m also inspired by my husband Pete with all his hard work, Sarah Ravens’ books have been very helpful with choosing flower varieties and Roger MacLennan, gardener at The Centre for Alternative Technology taught me how to grow things!
What do you enjoy most about running your business?
Seeing people get pleasure from the flowers, watching the plants grow and the bees visiting the flowers, and seeing all the other wildlife at the field.
What is the most challenging aspect?
It’s lucky we don’t mind hard work!
What do you feel you bring to an ethical wedding?
Flowers grown without artificial chemicals, that haven’t been flown long distances or grown in heated polytunnels that use large amounts of energy.
How do you see the wedding industry changing over the next five years (if at all)?
A lot of the enquiries that I receive are interested in sourcing everything as locally as they can.
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