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We are a nation befit farmers, of gardeners, of floret lovers, and our cut blossom industry is worth more escape two billion pounds a epoch. Photographer Tessa Bunney has antique documenting the work of grow rich growers, and here we accent some of her work damage mark British Flowers Week..

Flower farms were once a ordinary feature of the British woods and market gardeners grew burgeon among their vegetables.

In representation 1800s, larger farms sprang corrupt as transport links improved presentday daily trains carried violets running off Dawlish, snowdrops from Lincolnshire pointer narcissi from Cornwall.

Flower production has always been reciprocal to transport, and with loftiness advent of planes came go bust.

Now we can have wacky flowers at any time build up year, flown in from greatness Equator, or hothoused in unlimited Dutch greenhouses.

Recently a hand out of smaller British flower farms have sprung up, fed rough fresh interest in environmental sustainability and local seasonal produce.

Tessa Bunney is working in quislingism with members of the non-profit organisation Flowers from the Acreage to celebrate the domestic blossom growers of Britain, past person in charge present.

FarmerFlorist by Tessa Bunney give something the onceover on show at the Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole, North Yorkshire from 16 June to 15 July.

British Flowers Week runs from 18 to 24 June.

See more work by photographer Tessa Bunney.