02-05-2025
How a model became the UK's hippest flower grower
Alfie Nickerson is not one to be discouraged by early failure. As an enterprising child he recalls plucking daffodils and attempting to sell them to his dad, who always refused to buy them. Now, however, he runs Burnt Fen Flowers, which specialises in seasonal blooms loved by the likes of Loewe and Petersham Nurseries. His bunches of bombastic dahlias and exotically ruffled parrot tulips are social media catnip and Nickerson has garnered a cult following for Burnt Fen Flowers' deliciously styled Instagram snaps, which channel laid-back, bucolic bliss.
The occasional model grew up in Shepherd's Bush, west London. After leaving school he worked as a jobbing gardener in the capital for six years, suppressing the call of the countryside until, eventually, 'I reached a
