Welcome!

Welcome to the first post at Beachside Bunches! I am excited to be able to share information on the flowers I grow and how I grow them. I will talk to you with reference to personal experience and include the positive and negative because not everything goes to plan, especially when farming, even on a micro scale.

Let me introduce myself first, my name is Christy Howell and I started Beachside Bunches in the Spring of 2024. After growing garlic for a few years and working out that it probably wasn’t the best fit due to climate, I decided that flowers were the way to go. I love flowers, and I love growing them! I had gardening experience but not larger scale growing (still micro in the scheme of things), but that didn’t stop me. I bought and read numerous books, watched countless YouTube videos and trialled numerous types of flowers, some worked and grew beautifully but others failed miserably. I learned a lot in my first year and have improved in all aspects of growing and crop selection but know there is so much more to learn. I am glad you have decided to join me on this journey and hope you enjoy my flowers as much as I enjoy bringing them to you, whether as a big beautiful bunch from my roadside stall or through my website and blog.