If you’re planning a wedding for next June, this year is a great opportunity to keep your eyes on June wedding flowers to see what’s going to be in bloom. British flowers for a June wedding is a pretty broad brief for a florist! You’re in luck, because June is the season where Britain bursts…
Flowers & Floristry
Northern Monk wedding floristry
I was really chuffed to be approached by lovely Annis and Mike to do the floristry for their wedding at Leeds brewery Northern Monk. The top floor of this space is for private hire, and it’s an absolute fave of mine – Northern Monk wedding floristry can support pretty much any style you want to…
Christening Flowers – September, Cumbria
For me, christenings are a rite of passage – whether you’re religious or not. So I could call these Christening Flowers – but, really, whatever you call it, religious or nay, a Christening, Naming Ceremony or just plain party is a great excuse to get everyone you love together to celebrate a new little We…
Lake District Wedding Fair
We landed at Lake District Wedding Fair last weekend! What an awful lot of wonderful wedding suppliers there were in attendance. Particularly enjoyed the Gilpin’s rowing boat full of afternoon tea – I could get behind that on a lazy Sunday afternoon! This was the first Lake District Wedding Fair, held very near to home…
Norway in Autumn – so, wreaths!
We are taking a ‘working holiday’ in Norway this September and October. And it is completely glorious.The Autumn sunshine is gleaming off the sea as I sit here writing this, in our living room 50 metres above the ever-moving waves. And the island is filled with Scandi greenery; Norwegian pine, firs and all sorts of…
December Wedding Flowers – Kiri & Will
December wedding flowers? Grown totally in the UK? For some, it’s a tough sell. Winter. A time when the British countryside seems to go into hibernation; bulbs lie sleeping beneath the snow and memories of the summer’s fragrant blooms are long gone. What flowers do you think of, besides holly and ivy? How about these?…
Wildflower Wedding Bouquets
Not many people would think weeds are aspirational as your wedding flowers, would they?! But weeds are just wildflowers, and we think wildflower wedding bouquets are particularly special. Our British wildflowers (it’s only a weed if it’s in the wrong place, as my dad used to say) are a truly ephemeral and local vision of…
Spring flowers – showcasing beautiful Britain
Though there is always *something* beautiful available in our great British outdoors to bring inside, we love Spring flowers. Though Winter’s austerity is beautiful, and high Summer’s abundance is so generous, Spring is the moment to really take note of the arrival of those first flowers. When Spring has finally sprung, and those beautiful, delicate…
How to make a Christmas Wreath
I’ve been selling Christmas wreaths for quite a few years now. Because I do them completely naturally (no wire, not even in the base), people often say, “I wouldn’t know how to make a Christmas wreath that way”. Well, this year I am running wreath courses for those who want to find out! Find out all…
Making Christmas Wreaths
The festive period is one of my favourite times of the year to get outside and create floristry from nature. Making Christmas wreaths is a great excuse to get outdoors, and also provides something wonderful for your front door over the festive period! Some people think this time of year is epitomised by barren, empty…