Flower Farmer Fiona Haser Bizony from the Electric Daisy Flower Farm shares her small business journey. Having originally worked as a ceramicist, then as an Artistic Director at an Arts Centre, she now runs her flower growing business in Somerset and a flower shop in London.
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You'll Learn
- Fiona shares her small business journey, after initially studying a degree in Three Dimensional Design and majoring in Ceramics
- Moving to London after graduating, she began making ceramic garden pots
- Whilst in Spain, she met her German husband-to-be, a painter and they moved to Germany, started a family and got married
- Missing England, she moved back with her children before deciding to travel around the world for a year
- On returning to the UK, she set up a gallery and artist studios, before starting to work as an Artistic Director at an arts centre
- During gardening leave, having always been interested in growing, she did an RHS Horticulture Course
- She decided to set up a flower farm, initially by renting a walled garden from a local farmer
- A couple of years ago, she was approached to open a shop in Highgate, London and it opened in February 2020 just prior to the pandemic hitting the UK
- Fiona shares the impact of COVID-19 on her business
- Her 2022 plans including holding workshops, documenting the flower farm on video and creating another calendar
Links
- Electric Daisy Flower Farm
- Fiona on Instagram
- Electric Daisy Flower Farm | A Most Curious Wedding Fair | 2016
- Wedding Flowers Intensive Course | Green and Gorgeous & The Garden Gate Flower Company | 2015
- Floret Online Workshop
- StrengthsFinder
- Common Farm Flowers
- Flowers from the Farm
- Milli Proust
- Fiona's 60th Birthday Instagram Post
- The School of Life
- Petalon
- Forever Green Flower Company
- Flower Photography (iPhone Version) Online Course
