Blooming Green Flowers Kent. General views across the flower farm Jen is the owner at 'Blooming Green Flowers'. She runs the farm with her partner Bek. Blooming Green Flowers is a British flower farm is near Marden Kent, south of Maidstone, not far from London. Wedding parties come to collect their flowers, typically on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday morning. In the summer, on Friday afternoons families, everyone, from the very young to old come to pick flowers. Cost £10 a container. British local flowers, grown nearby, count for around 10% of the UK market, traveling less than a tenth of their foreign counterparts which are often flown in from abroad. Nearly 90% of the flowers sold in the UK are actually imported, and many travel over 3000 miles. Local flower farms help biodiversity, providing food and habitat to a huge variety of wildlife, insects including butterflies, bugs, and bees. Often local flower farmers prefer to grow organic rather than using pesticides. British flowers bloom all the year around, even in the depths of winter, and there are local flower farms throughout the country. Many people like the idea of the just picked from the garden look, and come to flower farms throughout Britain to pick their own for weddings, parties and garden fetes. Others come for the joy of a day out in the countryside with their family. Often a bride and her family will come to pick the flowers for her own wedding, some even plant the seeds earlier in the year.

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Portmeirion, in North Wales, is a resort, where no one has ever lived. It is famous as the location where the TV cult series 'The Prisoner' was made. The real place was built by a self-taught Welsh architect named Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, out of architectural salvage, between the 1920s and 1970s, loosely based on his memories of trips to Portofino. Including a pagoda-shaped Chinoiserie gazebo, some Gothic obelisks, eucalyptus groves, a crenellated castle, a Mediterranean bell tower, a Jacobean town hall, and an Art Deco cylindrical watchtower.