The English Garden

The Good Life

“Higgledy is a nice story of boy made good I guess. When I started out, people were doubtful I could succeed – the big companies have so much buying power that nobody thought I could make it profitable… but that’s what we did.” Benjamin Ranyard is a maverick seed merchant, proving that ‘simplicity is the ultimate sophistication’ with his small company Higgledy Garden. With no land of his own and operating in the main from his narrowboat home, over the past ten years he has built up a highly successful cut-flower seed company

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