Visitors to Park Lane saw sights including sunflowers being packed using a Vanden Berg production line (pictured) which is 30 metres in length - the longest one manufactured - and boasts an automatic bucket filter.

Managing director Charles Dobney said: 'What has been seen today could not have been achieved without my excellent team. Here at Park Lane Flowers we only pick the best of the crop for our customers, there is no second grade, we pick only the best and the rest is mown off or rotovated in.' Crops visited included larkspur, aster, delphinium and cornflower.

Park Lane aims to double its 150 acres in two years.

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