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
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
Scented July wedding flowers
Versatile lantern table centrepieces and stunning milk churns with scented garden roses added the wow factor to Sam and Rebecca’s Warwickshire wedding.
A romantically rosy July wedding
Getting the most out of your wedding flowers Find out how Caitlin and Ryan maximised the use of their wedding flowers throughout their classic English country summer wedding. I love getting photos of my flowers at work. This week, Caitlin
In with the creatives
I was very flattered, during British Flowers Week, to be featured in the Daily Telegraph’s list of the Top 20 Creative Florists – a list which contains many of my flowery heroes so I’m incredibly honoured to keep such esteemed company. It’s lovely to
Dreaming of dahlias
My house is about to be invaded. The first scouts have already gained a foothold in the living room, and reinforcements are mustering their forces in the porch. Yes, the dahlias have arrived. Those unprepossessing salami tubers in their dusty
Inspired by nature
I’ve been asked to provide flowers for a green funeral this week – a hand-tied sheaf of seasonal flowers and foliage, with no stipulation other than it being natural and relaxed: exactly the brief which led me to set up Tuckshop Flowers, after witnessing
Short and sweet: the life of annuals
The Tuckshop Garden is waiting for the tide of summer to turn and for the ever bushier perennials to launch into September’s firework display of shocking pink asters, bright yellow rudbeckias and the sunbursts of burnt orange chrysanthemums. This week