I’ve been tying myself in knots this week, trying to work out how to best fulfil a brief for flowers in troughs for an event. The first half of the week I was thinking how I could de-municipalize plastic window
Going wild
Painting with flowers
My most recent wedding has left me with a lasting legacy in the form of the photo above, which is possibly my favourite flower pic to date. It made all the shifting around of ‘stuff’ to clear the background all
Tuliptastic
The tulips have landed - after lurking stumpy in the borders, unmoving, for weeks, they all came rushing along in a flounce of bright petals, and now only a couple of rows of late bloomers remain. But oh they’re glorious
A Birmingham Arts & Crafts treasure
At Christmas, I was asked to create some festive displays to Birmingham University’s Winterbourne House and Gardens. This arts and crafts treasure, open to the public, is the residence which forms part of the university’s botanical gardens and which will,
Going Gold at Gardeners World Live
Hoopla! Chandelier flowers
This graceful airy creation is a suspended hoop of blossom and ferns and it makes me say ‘ooh’ a lot. Perfect for hanging over a narrow refectory style table which doesn’t have a lot of space for flowers, or to
Lit up by lanterns
To offer wedding couples a wider choice of statement arrangements, I’ve recently invested in some larger scale hardware, namely a set of large metal lanterns. Though attractive in themselves, I bought them mainly because I want them to be able to lift
Sowing seeds for future flowers
It’s been a busy week this week. I’ve been sowing some marketing seeds - booking rooms for British Flowers Week workshops, sending out mailings and doing my first Fazeley Studios wedding fair. In fact running a flower business is as
Cataloguing containers
I’ve been having a bit of a photoshoot this morning, collecting together a selection of the containers I’ve amassed to date. Let’s face it, you can never have too many. And the weird thing is, no matter how many you
Glancing back at 2015
As a gardener, I’m always looking forwards and anticipating the flowers, the jobs and the bunches which are yet to come. Ordering next season’s dahlia tubers is already top of my to do list, and my fridge is full of