Garlands Florist Of Oswaldtwistle

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My Story

I began my journey into Floristry at the tender age of seventeen. Having wanted initially to teach History (after a schoolgirl crush on my History Teacher), finding I could achieve Grade A in English with no problem, but struggling with Maths, I went on from Rhyddings School in Oswaldtwistle to Blackburn College, to try and get my Maths and this is where I met my now Husband Simon. I failed, again in achieving an high enough Grade in Maths, so decided alongside Simon to enrol at Accrington & Rossendale College and we qualified as Residential Social Workers in the Child protection area.

Being the last recession(1990), there was, as is today, a stop on funding and the County Council was tightening up on job availability, so after finding no work, (although I still worked part time at B&Q DIY which I had done since I was sixteen), we looked at other Avenues. Simon began to play the Piano in Hotels for diners in Hotel Restaurants and for Weddings and I spotted a driving job at Jones’ Florist in Blackburn, which was one of the busiest Shops ever in it’s time. I became the driver there, going out in the Transit Van delivering, which I loved and in between helping in the Shop.

As a School Girl my Mum and Dad had nearly bought a Florist Shop near to home, but having to give up their home and move over the shop, they didn’t go ahead, so I had a grounding in Floristry as Mum took me when she was learning the business with Clare, the owner of the shop. I asked my Boss at Jones’ if I could go on my day off to learn Floristry at Myerscough College in Bilsborrow, near Garstang. So off I went, part time to gain my exams in Floristry!

In 1992, I took on a small kiosk unit in Fishergate, Preston as a Florist Shop, but even back then the rent was over £200 per week and the shop was the size of a postage stamp, so eventually I had to give it up as it wasn’t viable. I then, in 1994, moved into the Victorian Arcade in Accrington, opening my second shop, Memory Lane Florist. The shop was beautiful, we had lots of Weddings, but the passing trade in Accrington could be very sparce as it is today. I started to teach Flower arranging and Floristry part time at Burnley College and Accrington and Rossendale College. In 1997 I found out I was expecting our lovely Son, so in November, when the lease was up I felt it a good time to give up the shop in Accrington.

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