Originally Posted by brocky

Hi, probably a bit of an odd one out on here as I have no experience of floristry at all and I'm a bloke! (Any others out there??)

Been working in computers for the past 8 years and had basically had enough so looking at a career change. My father runs a market garden, its been in the family for generations and as a kid I grew up surrounded by dahlias, crysants, sweet williams and the like. We sell to loads of florist and general flower shops and stalls around the Blackpool area. I'm looking into opening a flower shop whilst studing floristry at Mysercough college though just missed the course for this year :-(

Anyway, I digress, just basically come on here to try and get an insight into the world you guys live and try and get a few ideas. Master plan is to both grow flowers myself and sell via a shop along with contract work for hotels, including plants and containers.

So, hello to you all!!