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Young Blooms Christmas gift guide

We’ve not done this before, so we thought we should! πŸ™‚ Finding the perfect present for friends and family can we hard so we thought we’d have a go at collating some of our favourite things if your into our sort of flower filled world. We recently discovered the wonderful world of willow weaving and…

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Benefits of learning a new skill

It is another new week and we are looking forward to our flower workshops starting for the Christmas season. I wonder though, if you’ve thought about the benefits of learning a new skill? Put aside finding the perfect Christmas present, See what you think of these following points and whether they could be applied to…

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Elmhay wedding

I couldn’t resist sharing this wedding on the blog. Georgina & Jack got married a week ago at Elmhay park, we’ve done a number of weddings there before and its a fabulous space to decorate. The colour palette for the day was soft creams, peaches and pops of oranges which was perfect for this time…

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Create your own summer door wreath

Diy summer door wreath, wiltshire

As we finally seem to be hitting our stride with summer sun, I needed a new door wreath for our front door so thought this would be a good time to talk through how you can make a simple wreath for your door too. As always I wanted to make a sustainable wreath that didn’t…

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A floral table-centre for the summer

table flowers, summer wedding

I had a friend come put some shelves up in my workshop this week and whilst he was working I thought i’d have a go at this project that I’ve been thinking about for a while. Bare with me as I begin to show the process of this design. When it comes to creating wedding…

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Wrapping flowers part 3

Wrapping a bouquet, wiltshire florist

I’ve always had an interest in how bouquets of flowers are wrapped, it was one of the first things I learnt in my first flower shop job and I think the algorithm has learnt of my interest too! πŸ™‚ One thing I lack at the moment is access to prettier paper for this exercise but…

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A little Summertime craft project

summer craft project

I thought I’d have a go at something a bit different this week. Schools are finished for the summer term and this might be a nice little project to keep the kids busy with…. Step One: Roll your ball of modeling clay out and use the cookie cutter to cut out circle. Obviously make sure…

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Summer Bridal bouquets

Summer bridal bouquet

It has been a while since I’ve blogged but I wanted to give you a round up of summer weddings so far, can you believe its August next week? I’ll start with one of my favourites because it includes coral charm peonies…. We’ve certainly done a lot of classic white bridal bouquets this year which…

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Celebrating our locally grown flowers

British flowers

As we come towards to the end of our wedding season it felt only right to celebrate all the locally grown flowers we have been able to use in our designs and also introduce you to our lovely friend Vanessa. We’ve been buying flowers from Vanessa at Foxglove garden for a number of years, she…

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Changing seasons

autumn wedding flowers

Seems like Autumn has arrived for us here in the UK, I walked to the supermarket the other day and watched all the trees beginning to shed their leaves in the wind. Do you have a favourite season? I’m a fan of autumn when its not raining but at the moment that might be tricky….

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