I visited Bloom & Wild's flower farm, and it convinced me to add this pretty annual to my garden – it's a bouquet staple, and butterflies love it

Flowering statice growing on Pool Hullock farm, Bloom & Wild's organic flower farm.

I visited the organic flower farm where Bloom & Wild grow their flowers last week, and it was an incredible experience. Amongst the beautiful sea of blooms, one plant caught mine and the butterflies' attention: statice.

There are plenty of spring bulbs you can grow for cut flowers, but at Pool Hullock Farm in Herefordshire, which grows Bloom & Wild’s 100% organic flowers, a beautiful sea of annual flowers was enough to inspire anyone to start their own cut flower garden. Zinnias, dahlias, snapdragons – you name it. What I didn’t expect to take away, though, was a newfound appreciation for statice.