Hembury Cottage
A traditional English stone cottage with a garden in front

About Hembury Cottage

I grow flowers for cutting, not the show.

I’m Debbie. About a hundred varieties of cut flowers come out of a half-acre patch behind the cottage in Buckland Filleigh, North West Devon — most of them planted in the autumn, all of them cut the morning of delivery.

Hembury Cottage Flowers is a small flower farm run by Debbie Pluss from Hembury Cottage in Buckland Filleigh, north-west Devon. Everything you see here was grown, cut, and arranged by hand — usually the same morning it goes into a bouquet.

It started as one cutting bed by the back door. Six years on it's a working farm: half an acre of beds, a polytunnel for early ranunculus and late dahlias, and a kitchen-table workshop where the bouquets get tied.

The flowers change every week. What you take home in May is nothing like what you take home in October — that's the point. The garden makes the choices; we just wrap them in twine and brown paper.

Cut this morning, in your hands by lunchtime.

— Debbie
A flower farmer harvesting ranunculus in a polytunnel
A woman carrying a basket of freshly cut garden flowers
Red flowers blooming beside the grey wooden door of an English cottage

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