A Norfolk woman's floral business has blossomed as she relocates from her garden shed to a shopping village. Janette Liggins, 59, has opened The Wild Daisy at Park Farm in Brooke, near Poringland, and she sells flowers, cards and gifts. The site is owned by Spurgeons and Mrs Liggins has been supplying their farm shop with bouquets twice a week for the last four years.
READ MORE: See chart-topping acts for FREE at Norfolk festival this weekend Owner Janette Liggins (left) with her daughter Hannah - a graphic design graduate who designed The Wild Daisy logo Picture: Denise Bradley (Image: Newsquest) She has had a career as colourful as her flowers and she previously worked as a director for BBC Look East. It was there she met her husband Mike Liggins, who left the BBC in 2023 after 35 years. Mrs Liggins, who later worked as an image consultant, originally started growing flowers as a hobby.
A vase filled with flowers from The Wild Daisy Picture: Denise Bradley (Image: Newsquest) Mr Liggins bought her a guide to planting a cutting garden and a one-day floristry course for Christmas and she loved it. She said: "In the summer of 2020 during lockdown, it was the second year of my cutting garden and it was full of beautiful flowers. "I started doing £5 bunches which I put at my gate with an honesty tin and I kept selling out - at the end of lockdown people kept coming to me.
" Janette Liggins outside her new shop The Wild Daisy Picture: Denise Bradley (Image: Newsquest) As well as s.