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Sitting under the shade of Jan Lindsey’s vintage tent, amid her organic flower garden, it is easy to understand why she gave up a career in one of Scotland’s most renowned art collections to start her own business.
Jane was curator of British Art at The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, a job which was both prestigious and rewarding, but involved days holed up in the Hunterian’s subterranean offices in the west end. Jane left her job three years ago, after giving birth to her second daughter, and now runs Snapdragon Flowers, one of the only organic cut flower businesses in the UK.
Jane came up with the idea one night, when it occurred to her that no one grew their own flowers any more. She then promptly set about digging up almost the entire back garden of the family home in Old Kirkpatrick, with the full backing of her GP husband, Euan. Although the business began almost as a hobby, the small plot allowed Jane to grow enough flowers to sell at local farmers’ markets and in Glasgow’s Partick.
Buy local, eat local may be the current buzzwords in the world of food, but Jane’s attitude to flower growing is a rarity. Flowers available in the UK, either from your local supermarkets or renowned so-called ‘designer’ florists, are, more than likely, force-grown in the flower fields of Holland, or even as far afield as Kenya. The blooms are then cut early and transported across the globe in refrigerated containers – hardly what you could describe as ‘fresh’.
Thankfully, the fashion in floristry has
Numbers of red kites in Scotland are rising slowly - have you ever seen one of these birds flying wild in Scotland?
