Ballyfern · Glenmara · Co. Wicklow, est. 2020

ballyfern flower farm

Wedding flowers grown, picked & arranged on two acres in the village of Ballyfern.

2026 & 2027 wedding diaries open

A crimson dahlia glowing against dark foliage

A mother-and-daughter farm: Martha sows and grows, Jess picks and arranges. Chemical-free, foam-free, nothing flown in: around forty weddings leave this ground each year, and no two are the same.

The weddings

Weddings & Events

Garden-gathered, and just a little wild.

A candlelit wedding table dressed with garden flowers — Candlelit tables held in chicken wire & moss, never foam

An armful of colourful garden dahlias, freshly picked — An armful gathered fresh from the beds

We don't do stiff bouquets of perfect roses, and our couples wouldn't ask. Homegrown flowers carry colours, shapes and textures a wholesaler's box never will: seasonal, fun and funky, cut at their moment.

Bouquets · Arches · Table arrangements · On-the-day styling

The 2026 & 2027 wedding diaries are open. If your date is free, we'll grow for it.

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A mother, a daughter, and two acres in Ballyfern.

Hands cutting deep red dahlias in low light — Deep reds, cut by hand

Martha sows and grows; her daughter Jess picks, arranges and runs the business. What began in the first lockdown of March 2020 (one polytunnel, put up by Jess's husband Kenny) is now meadows, raised beds and four and a half tunnels of chemical-free flowers in the middle of our village.

Ours is the third trade on this ground: first the forge, then the village post office, now the flower farm. The studio is a converted horse stable, the purple studio, and everything leaves it arranged by hand.

- Martha Hale & Jess Carter

Martha's own mother farmed flowers before us, and Jess's daughter Emily presses the wedding keepsakes: a third generation, at her own little press.

Farm visits, by appointment

The Farm, in Figures

2acres of meadow, raised beds & 4½ polytunnels
15varieties of dahlia through the summer flush
40weddings flowered from the farm each year
0air miles, chemicals or floral foam

Est. 2020 · Member of Flower Farmers of Ireland · Chicken wire & foraged moss, where the trade reaches for foam.

Did a brilliant job … always at end of phone when we had a question … beautiful bouquets for our mothers and grandmothers.”
Padraic Kennedy, married December 2023 · 5.0 rating, weddingsonline.ie

Irish Farmers Journal · feature, March 2025
The Gloss · “Best Flower Farms To Visit In Ireland”
Flower Farmers of Ireland · member

Bouquets & Keepsakes

Fresh from the flush, for no reason at all.

Arranging dahlias by hand outside the studio door — Arranged by hand at the studio door

A pink dahlia photographed close in low light — A dahlia at its moment, one of the fifteen-odd varieties we grow

Hand-tied bouquets are cut fresh from the beds and tunnels: garden-gathered, seasonal, a little wild.

Bouquets from €50. Collect at the farm gate, or have them delivered nationwide.

Order · 087 123 4567

2026 & 2027 wedding diaries open

Tell us about your day.

Send your date, your venue and a feeling (wild, soft, colourful, anything) and Jess will come back to you. If your date is free, we'll grow for it.

Ballyfern, Glenmara, Co. Wicklow · A00 XY12. You're welcome to visit the farm, by appointment.