in amongst the confetti

A few weeks back we headed back home to visit my parents. Mum was working on the Saturday so The American and I headed to the Confetti Fields, a small plot of farmland a 10 minute drive away from home. Rather cleverly a farmer has tapped into a market; the wedding market for couples looking to keep thing sustainable and local and the Instagram market, for those keen to add another snap to their grid that’s sure to get attention. The Confetti Fields is a plot of prime flower growing land, growing only delphiniums in a spectrum of colours which are grown especially for wedding confetti. The fields reach peak bloom for one week of the year and during that week they are open to the general public, seeing teams of people travelling from all over to get a snap of the place. I’d seen the fields last summer and with Dad knowing all the farmers in the area, he’d also heard about this spectacle.

We drove down the winding farm track in the blazing sunshine, not quite sure of what to expect. It really is something that should be seen in person as I just don’t think I can do it justice through words. Nonetheless I will give it a try. The parameter of the field had been planted with different colours – deep purple, white, fuchsia, the palest of blues and a sweet strawberry ice cream tone too. Mixed together they are quite the picture and you can get a really good sense of what a mixed bag of confetti would look like. If you delve deep into the field you see the colours break down into blocks. Curiously they don’t smell much and despite the heat we saw very few bees, I guess it was too late in the season for them now, seeing as the delphiniums were just about to be harvested a week later.

Hard to choose but I think my favourite colour was the pale blue, it’s so delicate and has the slightest hint of blush running through it. Though I did also rather like it when a rogue delphinium of another colour had broken free – vive la résistance! We loved roaming the fields, despite the heaving crowds – honestly, I think every parent with anew born thought the confetti fields were the perfect place to have a free family photoshoot and the amount of people posing for Instagrams was actually laughable (myself included, though admittedly less pouty and more “here I am in a field of flowers having forgotten to brush my hair”).

Having picked up a full bunch of cut delphiniums for mum we climbed up high into the Cotswolds for lunch in Broadway before driving on to Snowshill to finish off our flower-filled day at the lavender farm.

More to follow…

L.