A Day In The Life OF A Field Supervisor

Hello everyone! My name is Daniela, I'm from Romania and I am a field supervisor during harvest at Shropshire Petals.

Daniela - field supervisor 

I supervise 3 teams of Eastern European students who work with me in the flower fields and are lovely to work with. We have given each of our teams a name: Flower Power, Pretty Petals and Newbies.

My lovely hard-working teams!  

Each team has a landrover and a trailer full of crates; throughout the day, they will pick lots of flowers to fill the crates.

Flower power team picking larkspur 

My main responsabilities are to make sure that the trays are filled up to the right level, the stems only have flowers on (no buds or weeds) which makes the sieving process much easier and ensure the high quality of our confetti. I also have to make sure that trays contain only one colour and count the number of crates that each team has picked.

This little cutie knew I needed help checking the tray levels and he came to give me a hand

We grow and pick 3 different varieties of flowers which have different names depending on the colours as you can see below:

Larkspur: - takes 80% of the field area and it has 7 colours

White- Icing sugar

Light pink- Candy floss

Dark pink – Raspberry fool

Light blue – Frosted blue

Grey – Lady grey

Light purple – Amethyst

Dark purple – Midnight blue

'Newbies' picking Amethyst larkspur 

Cornflowers: - 10% of the area with 2 colours

Blue – Blue bird

Black – Black Tie

Calendula: - 10% of the area with 2 colours

Yellow – Honey ` B

Orange – Ginger snap

'Pretty Petals' picking Ginger Snap calendula 

When we have nice sunny days our hard working students pick around 400 trays of flowers.

Thank you for your interest in reading my story! 

With love from Daniela, in the SP field x x