Flowerland Florists

Flowerland or Bourne End Nurseries as it was then known was founded in 1950 by Bryn Evans a young farm manager from Marlow with an entrepreneurial streak. As a means to subsidise the very seasonal business of rearing turkeys for Christmas, Bryn started a market gardening and landscaping business which flourished through the summer months.

The Bourne End site that stands now was once a flooded watercress field but the watercress fed the turkeys, which made the meat succulent and tasty and the field was drained. The beginnings of Bourne End Nurseries was born.

There was only one small greenhouse at first and no toilet for customers - if need be they were directed over the road to Bryn's house! Slowly the nursery grew more and more plants each season in more greenhouses, with more staff. We have now been growing seasonal bedding, shrubs and house plants for over 60 years and the quantities now reach 100's of thousands on some crops.