Buying sustainable flowers with Rosebie Morton
Age Better with Liz Earle
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Liz is joined by rose enthusiast and founder of The Real Flower Company, the appropriately named Rosebie Morton. Defending the charm of homegrown, traditional garden roses over their more commercial cousins, Rosebie can be found giving guided tours through her beautiful Hampshire paddocks and experimenting with new varieties to add to her already extensive repertoire. She's a champion of buying British flowers as well as sustainable sourcing from much further afield.
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| 0:24.0 | Avantee west coast, feel good travel. Hello and a warm welcome to Wellness with Liz Earl and today I am joined by Rose |
| 0:46.8 | enthusiast and founder of the real flower company the appropriately named |
| 0:51.4 | Rose B Morton defending the charm of |
| 0:54.3 | homegrown traditional garden roses over their more commercial cousins. |
| 0:58.8 | Rosebury can be found giving guided tours through her beautiful |
| 1:01.8 | Hampshire paddocks and experimenting with new varieties to add to her already extensive repertoire. |
| 1:08.0 | She's a champion of buying British flowers as well as sustainable sourcing from much further a field in places such as Kenya. |
| 1:14.4 | A very warm welcome. |
| 1:16.2 | Rosebury. |
| 1:17.2 | We last met in a field actually didn't we down on your farm in just outside Petersfield? |
| 1:21.4 | That's right. |
| 1:22.4 | Yeah, near it. Well, a bit, yeah, but yes in the rain. In the rain still |
| 1:26.2 | growing flowers. Still very much growing flowers. But your farm, it wasn't always flowers, was it? Did |
| 1:30.7 | you start more conventionally? We started, well we're arable anyway and we also have |
| 1:35.2 | sheep. We got about 1400 sheep and we were looking to do something else, well 20 years ago now actually for my sins, and I always felt that there weren't |
| 1:46.6 | enough scented roses in the flower shops. |
| 1:50.4 | So I just... |
| 1:51.4 | That's really true. |
| 1:52.4 | You know when you go and buy roses and |
| 1:53.5 | instinctively the first thing you do is hold a bunch to your nose and they don't |
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