I don’t know about you but when the weather is grey and miserable, it’s lovely to have a craft project on the go. I wanted to create a small enough wreath that I could pop in the post but that still had a colour and pretty ribbons! 🙂 Step one, you need to separate out…
Last weekend I did a wedding open day at the lovely Moonraker Hotel and the day after brought back the centre-pieces I had made (You can see them here) I thought it would be a shame to throw them away so I’ve had a go at a simple Autumn table centre. For the open day…
Have you ever admired a beautifully wrapped bouquet, posy or plant and wished you could do the same? If so, I’ve got some news I’m really excited to share with you… Learning to wrap a bouquet was one of the first skills I mastered at the beginning of my floristry career. Working in an Interflora…
Now don’t blame me but we painted our front door bright yellow, so this year I decided to throw any idea of a traditional red and green door wreath out the window and go different! Before you start reading you might want to check out the actual colour of the door so click here… My…
We’ve not done this before, so we thought we should! 🙂 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…
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…
It’s always fun to look ahead and see what the coming trends are going to be, choosing your style of wedding flowers can be overwhelming so I thought I’d pick out four trends that I love for you to enjoy and hopefully be inspired by. I’ve also created a Pinterest board with more inspiration on……
Making flower-crowns has been a big part of Young Blooms Summer, I’ve had over 15 groups of women through our workshop doors creating crowns. On the most part I’ve been able to source all the flowers from our flower garden which has been wonderful and you can see some of their efforts on our blog….
I’ve been wondering about colour for a while now, especially how we are drawn to certain colours when it comes to flowers. I have six brothers, so I was a complete tomboy growing up. I’ve been a florist for over 16 years and yet when I go to the flower market, I’m drawn to anything…
Festive fun with Young Blooms We are getting into full festive swing here at Young Blooms, not least helped by all the lovely people who have come and joined us at our Christmas workshops so far. We love nurturing others’ creativity and our attendees have certainly produced some stunning, luxurious wreaths! Take a look at…
