Bridge Farm Group Visit

Bridge Farm is the UK’s leading horticultural expert, with a legacy cultivated over decades of innovation and sustainable growing. At their state-of-the-art facilities and glasshouses, they combine leading edge technology and advanced horticultural science to optimise nature. They deliver the very best of each season, growing naturally at scale.

Growing more than 70 million plants a year in a low-carbon, water-efficient, biomass heated glasshouse. They carefully select and breed plant varieties to cultivate the best possible specimens. Cutting-edge robotic and AI technology brings total control, consistently nurturing every plant to its fullest potential.

With Poinsettia season in full swing, Karen Barnes caught up with Vas, head of growing for Bridge Farm Group, to find out all the insider information on this festive plant.

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With over 35 years’ experience, Karen Barnes is one of the UK’s leading consultants to the floral industry and an expert in product development, future trends & colours, and floral photography design & planning. She’s an interior floral designer, high profile wedding and event floral planner, and prominent international competition judge.​​In a distinguished career, Karen has been awarded gold medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, selected to judge two Floral Design World Cups and been voted one of the top ten florists in the UK by The Independent on Sunday Newspaper.​​Her style and influences come from new and popular flower varieties, fashion, art, travel and emerging trends on a global scale.​Karen Barnes NDSF, IoPF, AIFD, CFD, CAFA, UKFJG