About
Place of Joy
Trelowen
Trelowen will be our home, a low-impact off-grid home and a place we can steward the land sensitively, ecologically, in co-operation with our fellow smallholders and nature, using organic and biodynamic principles.
Our Journey
Trelowen is a partnership in business and in marriage between my wife Tamsin and myself, Wayne. Having always shared a love of flowers and gardens, from when we first met over twenty years ago, its a natural venture for us to undertake now; now that Tamsin has been running her freelance floristry business for sometime and is ready for a bigger challenge, now that we have been welcomed into ELC's landworkers' cooperative; now that I am able to bring Tamsin home to the Cornwall of her family roots; now that our children are fledging the nest, with our daughter recently married and our boys at university, (not all have flown the nest yet). It's time for a new chapter.
Our Farm
Our five-acre flower farm is planned to see its first growing season in 2025. Planned on permaculture design; viewed through the lens of biodynamics and its practises; working regeneratively to improve soil and biodiversity, we will grow flowers and foliage for flower lovers, florists and floral designers, as well as supporting our own floristry. We will be growing for scent, colour and beauty of form. A lot of our foliage collections will initially be gathered from the trees and hedgerows surrounding our farm, as our long term herbaceous perennials, shrubs and trees get established.
Our Flowers
Our season will run from February with scented Winter flowering shrubs and early Spring bulbs through to mid November's late-flowering Chrysanthemums finding shelter in our polytunnel.
Our garden will be filled with buds, seedheads and grasses for texture rhythm and light. Focal flowers, fillers and foliage. Willow will also part of our plan for florists, wreath-making and basketry as there is a lower wetter end to our south-facing sloping field.
