Your Favourite Seasonal Flowers: A Year-Round Guide to UK Blooms

UK spends £2.2B annually on flowers (£28/person average). 85% come from abroad; 20% from outside EU. But more florists offer homegrown seasonal varieties at surprising prices.

Seasonal Highlights

• Summer: Garden roses, sweet peas, sunflowers, dahlias, irises, hydrangeas, cosmos—some thrive in heat.
• Autumn: Sunset shades—oranges, reds, yellows, browns. Summer flowers persist; add asters and rudbeckia for final color.
• Winter: Jasmine, rosehips, honeysuckle, crab apples, ivy, coniferous foliage—hardy blooms defy frost.
• Spring: Daffodils, hyacinth, amaryllis, narcissi, crocus, tulips, alliums—burst of life after hibernation.

Herbs Year-Round

Mint, lemon balm, dill, fennel, rosemary, lavender, sage, bay—add color and fragrance to bouquets anytime.

Buying seasonal saves money, supports local community, and promotes wild/seasonal flower growers.

Maricruz Tennill, horticulturalist and freelance writer, recommends Interflora for Birmingham flowers.