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This will have been the busiest week of the year for florists and flower growers, in the run up to Mothering Sunday. But, as around three quarters of flowers sold in the UK are imported, could, or should, more flowers be grown here? Charlotte Smith visits David Austin Roses in Shropshire, which breeds new varieties for cut flower producers and gardeners. Every year they cross pollinate thousands of roses by hand but, from that, only four or five varieties will make the grade to go on sale. Whilst the company carries on its painstaking rose breeding in England, its cut flower production actually takes place in Kenya, Ecuador and California. Charlotte also visits New Covent Garden Market to talk to florists who are English flower enthusiasts, and Sarah Falkingham meets a woman on a mission to create a British 'Flowers from the Farm' label.

Presenter: Charlotte Smith
Producer: Sarah Swadling.