2019
Clara Whitmore started Foxglove Post in the spring of 2019 from a converted stone outbuilding behind her cottage near Ludlow, Shropshire. The idea was straightforward: she had spent years watching people receive flowers from large online retailers, flowers that had been sitting in a warehouse for days and arrived half-open and odourless. She wanted to post something that actually smelled like a garden. The first orders went to friends, then to friends of friends, then to strangers who had seen a photograph on Instagram. By the end of that first summer she had posted bouquets to addresses in fourteen different counties.