Serendipity Floral Design

30/08/2024

Timelapse of me making a 3 foot red & white coffin spray 🌹

30/08/2024

When a friend asks you to make the coffin spray for her fathers final journey
I couldn’t say no
She gave me the colours she wanted and asked for it to include roses
🌹 This was the result 🌹

Thank you to Jane & her family for the honour of creating the last flowers you’ll ever send your lovely Dad - God Bless

22/08/2024

Double ribboned, based white heart - Pink & White

10/08/2024

Wedding flowers delivered 💐
Wishing the Bride and Groom a lifetime of love and happiness ❤️

03/08/2024

SFD family team delivering wedding flowers today 💐

14/07/2024

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14/07/2024

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28/06/2024

Wow! These look incredible
Maybe I’ll get to see them one day

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10/06/2024

What a lovely idea 💐

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22/05/2024

17/05/2024

05/05/2024

After creating this MUM tribute, for a family members, extended family.
Pink carnations were her favourite flower & yellow was her favourite colour.
Today I received a lovely, hand delivered card, from the family, such a touching thing to do 🥲 that means so very much to me
Thank you 🙏🏻

29/04/2024

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29/04/2024

Are you looking for a wedding cake? Pop over to Patisserie Valerie

Explore our collection of luxuriously hand-crafted wedding cakes to order. Here you'll find bespoke one-tier wedding cakes and two-tier wedding cakes. Order up to 90 days in advance.

28/04/2024

It’s bluebell season 💙

Everyone loves bluebells! But how can you distinguish the UK native, Spanish and hybrid species?

Incredibly, almost half of the world's bluebells are found in the UK. They grow in large colonies that cover the ground of woodland edges from April-May.

Native bluebells (𝘏𝘺𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘢) are threatened by habitat destruction, harvesting from the wild, and potentially competition from Spanish bluebells (𝘏𝘺𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢), a garden-escape introduced by the Victorians, which are able to hybridise with UK native bluebells (𝘏𝘺𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘹 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢), so it can be difficult to identify true native populations.

The biggest tell is that native bluebells have droopy stems and a sweet scent, while Spanish bluebells are straight-stemmed and unscented.

💚 Bluebells are symbolically associated with gratitude and everlasting love 💚

[EDIT in response to FAQs:] Spanish and hybrid bluebells still provide a good nectar source, so they are beneficial to pollinators! 🙂🐝 It's fine if you already have them in your garden for people and wildlife to enjoy. However we want to encourage people to acknowledge the difference between the types of bluebells, and to be aware that if you want to plant new bulbs and your garden is close to natural areas where native bluebells are present, it is preferable to choose to plant native ones, due to the risk of escape or hybridisation with wild bluebells. And, if disposing of garden waste, always do this responsibly.🌱

UK native bluebells are protected by law under the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981).

25/04/2024

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23/04/2024

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21/04/2024

When a friend asks you to create a personalised tribute - BRO in letters - Red, Blue and White colours for Crystal Palace Football Club, complete with the eagle from their logo ⚽️

20/04/2024

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Flowers
Don't sit by my grave and say sorry
or place flowers at my place of rest.
Come and join me at my table
when I invite you to be my guest.

Do not tell everyone I was wonderful
when I can no longer hear.
Tell me to my face my friend
because to me it wasn't clear.

Do not shed a tear for me
that is really born from your regrets.
Instead make sure you won't have any,
let us share each others secrets.

Do not stand in a church doorway
and shake the hands of friends,
whilst believing in your heart
that this will make ammends.

Do not bring me flowers
unless I can smell how sweet they are.
Bring them when I'm alive
and not watching from afar.
Author Joanne Boyle Heartfelt Art is by Steffi Krenzek

18/04/2024

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17/04/2024

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Duo Michael and Darroch Putnam sat down to talk the ins and outs of flowers.

10/04/2024

Some recent funeral tributes

09/04/2024

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Sunflowers are such a beautiful flower.
Quick sunflower facts:
-The entirety of a sunflower is edible. Their leaves, stalks, and roots can all be used as food, and were grown in North America before other crops like corn became common. They were milled to create flour, and their seeds roasted and eaten.
-Young sunflowers follow the sun all day, and then reset their position at night to be ready for sunrise. Once fully grown, they stay facing east to attract bees and other pollinators.
-On average, sunflowers grow to be between 6 to 10 feet, but they can grow much taller. The tallest sunflower ever recorded was 30 feet.
-Sunflowers can absorb toxins, including toxic metals and radiation. Following the nuclear disasters of Chernobyl and Fukushima, scientists planted millions of sunflowers to help those areas recover.
They are remarkable plants!
Via Walking Nature

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07/04/2024

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05/04/2024

Hello everyone

I am a qualified, freelance Florist, based in Basingstoke, Hampshire with over 25 years experience within the industry

I pride myself on paying close attention to the personal touches with the finest attention to detail.

Whether it's for a:
* Wedding or Civil Partnership
* Commitment Ceremony or Blessing
* Corporate Events or Function
* Christening or Naming Ceremony
* Engagement Party
* Anniversary Celebration or a
* Funeral
the standard you receive will be the same.

And as the name suggests, “Serendipity” you will find something good without looking for it

Please get in touch if you require flowers for your special occasion 💐

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07470 809385

Serendipity Floral Design is a special occasion florist.
We specialises in flowers for any special e

31/03/2024

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15/03/2024

Most of these are correct and should work but I wouldn’t guarantee them

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27/02/2024

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The sunflower is not a flower! 🌻 Its petals are actually ray flowers and are made up of multiple petals fused together. Ray petals are usually yellow but can sometimes be red or orange.
The number of petals of a sunflower plant is determined on its size. A sunflower has between 34 and 89 petals. Now, look inside the "flower" more closely. Look into what you once thought was the flower and is actually a lot of tiny "flowers". Many... Many... Beautiful and delicate in an alignment beyond harmonic (the geometry of nature). What you thought was a flower, is actually an outline that holds hundreds and hundreds of flowers... The ray florets of sunflower are known as neuters because it consists neither male or female parts in the flower. If the flower contains any of the small strap-shaped flowers in the head of certain composite plants, such as the daisy is called Ray floret.
And if we look at it with the eyes of gardeners, we will realize that each little flower holds within itself, in this golden dust, countless fields of sunflowers.
In biology, this is called an infloration. 🌻