A monthly bouquet showcasing seasonal flowers starts today! Find out what’s flowering in the UK in Janauary and has the wow factor that is WIGGLE!
Why choose and use locally grown flowers?
Read why I love using my own and other local flowers and why and when I may choose to use flowers from further afield.
Big flowery urns and lots of chat
Workshops at Tuckshop Flowers Wondering what’s it like to do a 1:1 floristry workshop here at Tuckshop Flowers? Read all about Chloe’s day spent with me practising statement arrangements, talking business and capturing her handiwork. Chloe contacted me early in
Pic of the week February 2nd
First snowdrop spotted 30th January on a prowl around my garden…. It’s not the best photo I’ve taken this week, but it was a eureka moment! I’ve been envying the snowdrops populating the social media feeds of many flower folk
Remembering summer wedding flowers
It cheered me along this week when a set of images of Steph and Ollie’s summer wedding flowers dropped into my inbox. I absolutely love this candid shot of flower girls and their bouquets by the talented Sara at Lincoln
Pic of the week January 17th
Inspired by the Canon photography blog I decided to go on a pre-dawn foray to the allotment, hoping for the Narnia world that greeted me last week as I wheelbarrowed leaves from the communal leaf dump to my flower beds.
Pic of the week – starts now!
Happy New Year! Here’s hoping that 2022 brings us a bit more fun that the last year did… As I’m trapped indoors by admin jobs, sleet and snow, I thought I’d resolve to try to be more regular with my
English garden wedding flowers – June
Wedding flowers to match a rose garden What better month to get married than in June, when the roses bloom and waft their perfume all around? Read more about Claire and Luke’s quintessentially English wedding flowers in a rosy Edgbaston
Flower photography: painting with flowers
My most recent wedding has left me with a lasting legacy in the form of the photo above, which is possibly my favourite flower pic to date. It made all the shifting around of ‘stuff’ to clear the background all
After the Beast’s departure: frozen spring flowers
The Beast from the East has blown its way across the British countryside, leaving thigh high snowdrifts barring paths and roads, and my workshop with iced buckets holding their few flowers in a cement-like grip. I’m normally crouched in my