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…
Sweet-peas slowly showing some life I think I mentioned a while ago about ‘British flower’ hour on Twitter that I been having some fun with. Between 8pm & 9pm you can join in the conversation with the hash-tag #britishflowers. I’ve got chatting to a really wide range of people, from growers to other florists, allotment…
