About Roz Chandler
For more than 15 years, Roz has grown British flowers commercially, building Field Gate Flowers into a thriving flower and education business.
Growing British flowers
Courses, workshops, mentoring & retreats
The Cut Flower Podcast
From the field to the vase
As founder of Field Gate Flowers, Roz has spent more than 15 years understanding what really makes a great cut flower — from productivity in the field and the long stems florists need, to colour, vase life and seasonality.
The farm grows beautiful seasonal British flowers for florists, weddings, funerals and events. From buckets of flowers for couples who want to create their own wedding flowers, to full-service wedding floristry and large installations, flowers grown at Field Gate Flowers are chosen with the end result in mind.
The same philosophy runs through its funeral flowers: natural, seasonal arrangements designed to feel personal and individual, using British flowers wherever possible.
Growing, creating and teaching
A farm where education has become a huge part of the business.
Over the years, Roz has taught thousands of people through online courses, workshops, retreats and mentoring — from complete beginners wanting to create their own cutting garden, to established flower farmers, florists and creative business owners looking to build more profitable and sustainable businesses.
Her flagship Seed to Vase programme takes growers through an entire season, sharing the practical knowledge gained from years of growing flowers commercially. And because growing beautiful flowers is only one part of running a successful flower business, Roz also teaches the business behind the blooms.
Before starting Field Gate Flowers, she spent around 30 years in sales and marketing, including working as a Sales & Marketing Director and running her own digital agency. She believes creativity and commercial thinking should sit comfortably alongside one another — knowing what to grow matters, but so does knowing who you are growing it for and whether the numbers actually work.
The Cut Flower Podcast
Growers, florists, gardeners & horticultural experts, in conversation with Roz.
Roz is also the host of The Cut Flower Podcast, where she talks to growers, florists, gardeners and horticultural experts from across the flower world. It is another extension of something that has always been important to her: sharing knowledge, asking questions and helping more people discover the extraordinary world of seasonal flowers.
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Still learning. Still growing.
Despite more than 15 years in the field, Roz is still learning.
New varieties are trialled. Growing plans change. Some flowers earn more space the following year and others quietly disappear from the list. She travels to growers and suppliers, including in Holland, to find varieties specifically for their productivity, stem length, colour and flowering season.
Because Field Gate Flowers isn't about growing as many different flowers as possible. It's about growing great cut flowers — flowers that perform in the field and are beautiful when they reach the vase.
A note from Roz
I started growing flowers more than 15 years ago and I don't think I could possibly have imagined where they would take me. There have been weddings, funerals, thousands and thousands of buckets of flowers, courses, workshops, retreats, podcasts, mentoring sessions, successes, failures and plenty of lessons learnt along the way. And I'm still learning. That's probably one of the things I love most about growing flowers. No two seasons are ever quite the same and there's always something new to discover.
Field Gate Flowers today brings together all the things I love — growing, creating, teaching and helping other people build something of their own. So whether you've arrived here because you want flowers for your wedding, need flowers to say goodbye to someone you love, you're a florist looking for beautiful British-grown stems, you want to grow your own cutting garden or you're building a flower business of your own — welcome. I'm very glad you've found us.
Roz x
Founder, Field Gate Flowers · Flower farmer · Florist · Educator · Mentor · Host of The Cut Flower Podcast
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