UK: Started by growing sunflowers for friend's wedding, now selling seeds and cut flowers
He grows swathes of English cottage garden annuals in a paddock in Cornwall and writes a hugely popular blog that’s a mine of information on how to grow your own cutting patch from his Higgledy Garden seeds. ‘But I’ve never had a garden of my own,’ he says.
The Higgledy Garden began four years ago after Benjamin grew 100 sunflowers in pots for a friend’s wedding.
At the time he was a jobbing gardener but didn’t much like it. ‘I had no money,’ he explains. ‘I was living in a caravan in Cambridgeshire. But the wedding went really well and lots of girls admired the flowers. So I thought I’d try growing them to sell locally.’
He now sells 100 varieties of cut-flower seeds and his staunch fans include cookery writer Nigel Slater, who has sown Benjamin’s seeds randomly straight into the ground to create a tangle of nigella, cosmos, candytuft, marigolds and lacy white Ammi majus that’s ‘wild, chaotic and quite magical’.
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