I’m Linda, and this is my story…

I came to Bridgetown fifteen years ago with my husband and two daughters for the typical “tree change”, and promptly fell in love with the town, a 100yr old house, and a rambling one-and-a-half-acre garden. We added a pony, a couple of cats, a pond full of goldfish and happily settled into country living. 

 

While the girls completed schooling and a hospitality traineeship, and the husband got to work earthmoving, I re-opened my Aromatherapy Clinic in our new location and fast got to know the local community. 

Flowers and Floristry had been my first loves and I found after a few years away from the floral industry that I was seriously missing the joy that flowers brought to my life and the creativity of floristry. So, the dream of a Micro Flower Farm was conceived, the earth moving gear put to good use and the 'Earth Blooms' garden became a reality.

The things I had missed most about flowers was the seasonality and the fragrance of the blooms. Both of these things seemed to have been lost to the industry over many years of hothouse growing and importing flowers and I was determined that I was going to make my farm sustainable, seasonal and to grow organically without any pesticides or artificial fertilisers. 

Now in our seventh season of growing, the farm bursts with life - birds, bees, butterflies and beneficial insects are all helping to sustain healthy rows of annuals, perennials, David Austin roses, Heritage Chrysanthemums, and much more (with as many fragrant flowers and foliage as I can possibly include!)

My favourite part of being a Farmer Florist is seeing the look on my customer’s faces as they bury their noses into the freshly picked bunches, and I watch their faces light up as they take in the wide variety and healthy beauty of the blooms. That’s the moment that I realise I’ve found the joy in the flowers again- and its not just for me.

I get to share that joy with you!

“Wow! The flowers Linda created for our elopement were just incredible! I could not stop looking at them - such a beautiful combination she put together, even more perfect then I could have ever imagined. Thank you so much for creating this for us, it made our wedding photos so special having those amazing colours. They just popped!”

- Sarah Degroot