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…
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…
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 might not be the best title for a blogpost, but as I was picking flowers up at our growing site with Vanessa from Foxglove garden. I reflected on how we pick flowers and what goes into a British grown gift bouquet. When ordering your gift bouquet, we always ask for at least 24 hours…
Milk Churns are something we love filling with flowers at Young Blooms, they work perfectly as statement arrangements and are easy to move which we are a fan of. Couples can use has them as designs to be placed by altar or ceremony table and then move them onto their reception. We’ve put them at…
This is certainly an interesting topic to write about at an interesting time. Outside the sun is shining and it feels like Spring is very much here and yet last night our Prime Minster announced that we are now only advised/allowed to go out of the house three times a day! So my thinking is,…
I’m keeping it simple in today’s title. Foam-free arrangements are something that have interested me for a while, it was massively inspiring to see Flowers-from-the-farm gold medal winning stand at this years Chelsea flower show use foam free mechanics all the way through their display. This photo below might look a bit odd, but I…
I love hosting workshops at Young Blooms, and this one was a corker, we had a fab group of ladies who were staying here for a hen-party. They wanted something creative to do as the Bride herself was looking to do her own flowers for her wedding. So they decided to combine it all and…
I wanted to carry on the celebration of British flowers and look at some of the table-centres we have created using flowers from the Not So Secret Garden. This design above used cosmos, zinnia and dahlia from the garden with some vintage style hydrangea. It’s a taller arrangement as you’ll see from the photo below,…
Over the last couple of months we have been able to use our own flowers grown in the Not So Secret Garden for five weddings! It’s been a lovely learning curve, managing the preparation before the weddings. Making sure that flowers were cut on time, that the right amounts of certain types were going to be…
