I’ve just spent a truly joyful morning cutting early summer flowers for a funeral later this week. The flowers came from a real gardener’s garden – rambling, slightly wild and completely magical. I was caught in the act of exclaiming
Green Funeral Flowers go online
Anyone who knows me knows just how buzzy the bee in my bonnet is where green funeral flowers are concerned. They’re one of the things that pushed me off down the flowery path after seeing people’s responses to the wild
Weird times and wedding flowers
Wedding flowers in the time of Coronavirus Coronavirus lockdowns had a huge effect on weddings and wedding floristry businesses throughout the UK. Here’s an account of what I did to adapt my business model during those tricky months when movements
Wedding cake flowers
Wedding cake flowers for makers of splendiferous cakes Find out why my own experience of wedding cake making has given me the utmost respect for the wedding cake pros and their amazing artistry and read more to get inspiration for
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
Wedding flowers: Birch arch back stories
Life as a wedding florist When you choose a florist to do your wedding flowers, a large part of the service they offer is to absorb the stress involved in this task and to make your flowers appear effortless on
Growing flowers: getting the plot ready for 2019
An organised start to the New Year – read more about getting my flower plot onto the straight and narrow.
Being a florist – a dream or a nightmare?
From time to time I receive emails from people who remind me of myself. People who love gardening and/or flowers, who dream of being a florist, and of leaving their current jobs or careers behind. When I do farmers’ markets
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