Best of the Bunch - Grown in Bristol

09/09/2024

"Sending all our  love to the leading lady at the Old Vic Theatre! 🌸
💐This special bouquet was lovingly ordered by her proud parents to wish their girl well. They asked for bright and bold colours🌟✨

At Best of the bunch each bloom is grown with love and thoughtfully arranged into beautiful bouquets that speak from the heart. Here's to making her debut even brighter! 💖🌷 "

01/09/2024

🌸 Join Us for a Creative Flower Arranging taster Workshop! 🌸

Do you love flowers and want to learn how to turn them into stunning arrangements? 🌷

✨ Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, our hands-on Flower Arranging taster Workshop is the perfect place to unleash your creativity and take your floral skills to the next level!

In this workshop, you’ll learn:
🌿 An Expert technique for arranging beautiful bouquets
🌸 How to select and prepare flowers for your display
💐 Lots of Pro floristry Tips to take your arrangements to the next level

Cost: £35
Date: 5th September
Time: 7 - 9 pm
Location: Old market Assembly, 25 West St, BS2 0DF

All materials will be provided, and you’ll take home your gorgeous creation to enjoy or gift to someone special. Plus, you’ll get to meet other flower lovers and enjoy a fun, relaxing atmosphere.

Spaces are limited, so don’t miss out! Click the link in our bio to our website and head over to the workshop tab to reserve your spot today. 🌼✨

28/08/2024

It's a wonderful time of year for our locally grown flower bouquets bursting with colour from dahlias, sweet william, ammi and alstromeria to name but a few flowers we grow.
If you want a jam jar or a bouquet bursting with blooms maybe to brighten up your day or gift to someone for their special day then head over to my website www.bestofthebunch and order your flowers. Prices start from £15 and delivery is throughout Bristol.

28/08/2024

I love making up . I had a special request to include white lillies, so we sourced then from a florist and mixed them with our own flowers locally grown in Bristol. A special and seasonal combination.

20/08/2024

🌸All the pinks for today's bouquets.🌸

🌼Prices start from £15. Hop over to the website to order and while you're there take a look at our workshops.🌼

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19/08/2024

🌸We had a lorra fun at Saturday's TASTER workshop.🌸

🌟If you've always loved flowers and want to learn an easy way to make the most of them then try out our beginner friendly class.🌟

🎉Next dates are :-
5th, 7th 19th Sept
10th, 12th, 24 th October.
Book through the website bestofthebunch.co.uk 🎉

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15/08/2024

All the bright colours of high summer in a vase arrangement delivered today bought as a birthday present to themselves.

And don't worry if you haven't a birthday you don't need an excuse to order flowers for yourself.

Hop over to our website to place an order, prices start from £15.

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13/08/2024

Relax and unwind by joining me for a fun few hours for our beginner friendly class learning how to make a floral hand tied bouquet and the fabulous .in central Bristol.

If you've always loved flowers, are curious about flower arranging or just want to do something different for the evening then this is for you.

Date: Thursday 5 th September & 10 th October
Time: 7-9 pm
Cost: £35
Place: old market assembly, Bristol BS2 0DF
Book: Bestofthebunch.co.uk

12/08/2024

It was a pleasure to meet Liyah and teach her the foundations of bouquet making. Can't wait to teach her more techniques of flower arranging.

09/08/2024

Lovely morning spent with Danielle and her mum Carol teaching HAND TIED BOUQUETS.

Danielle treated her mum to this workshop and kept it a surprise until the day before! There was lots of laughter, chatting and creativity. And there were plenty of home grown flowers, enough for Danielle to make a second bouquet.

If you want to treat someone with a workshop gift experience then do get in touch. We have a whole range of workshops to choose from including taster sessions, vase arrangements, table centres and seasonal wreaths.

06/08/2024

3 new plants to try out for their colour and cut floweryness gifted to me by my friend Catherine of .

The rich maroon flower of the to***co plant will look great with the joyful Sunshine spectrum of flowers I grow. The soft apricot scabious will work with that spectrum too.
The pinky mauve of the mallow will look good in the classic pink and lilac spectrum.
Can't wait to use these flowers in a trial bouquet.

05/08/2024

Some flowers look good all by themselves...

04/08/2024

🌸 Last 2 places availabile for this coming Thursday's HAND TIED BOUQUET workshop.

Date:8th August
Time:10.30-1.00 pm
Location: Bristol
Cost:£75
Booking: website, link in Bio and comments.

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03/08/2024

What a treat to visit gardens today; especially as I was given a guided tour by my dear friend Lisa who has been volunteering 1 full day a week there for over a year to expand her gardening experience. And to see Tim again, who was one of my favorite WRAGS trainees. We met over 7 years agowhen I worked as the regional co ordinator supervising garden placements for , so it was heart warming to see the joy a change of career was giving him.

It was a pleasure to meet again William and his wife who have continued Iford journey and brought into being the café and superb restaurant .

The garden was looking good, and the plants were coping well with the heatwave, as I noticed the visitors were too with plenty of shady seating areas and cool green areas to explore and spend time in. The shady tranquilityof the Japanese inspired gardens combined with and the gentle flowing water were a welcome respite from the heat. By contrast the colour rich deep herbaceous borders of the top terrace looked fine and not only gave a shot of pure colour energy to the system but held your attention whilst inviting you to look beyond and take in the views offered by this hillside garden.

On Meeting head gardener steve lannin he described the effect of his gardening team effort as producing a loved garden. From Tim’s topiary excellence, Angela’s green fingered propagation skills to Lisa’s impeccable eye for balance and composition when cutting back and refreshing mid season planting the team certainly have nurtured and appreciated the unique qualities of this garden and are responsible for Iford’s enduring appeal. May we all aim to produce a garden that is loved.

02/08/2024

When you get back from holiday and your snap dragons are in full bloom..... I get to have them on my kitchen table!

01/08/2024

DAHLIAS are one of my favorite Summer flowers. Join my ‘Handtied bouquet making workshop’ on Thursday August 8th at 10:30 am and learn how to make the most of these seasonal delights and bring the beauty of nature into your home.

Hurry up and register now as there are limited spots!!

Link in bio

21/07/2024

Yesterday's HAND TIED BOUQUET workshop here in Bristol.

These two lovely people were gifted this experience by their other halves who knew how much they loved flowers.

The morning was spent learning the spiral technique and chatting about all things flowery.

The next dates for this workshop in Bristol are :-
Thursday 8th August
Saturday 28th September
Saturday 26th October

Link in bio to my website to book and in comments

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19/07/2024

When in Pisa I just had to go to the oldest botanical garden. And a gem of a botanical garden it was too. Relatively small but mixed old glass houses with modern areas displaying grasses.

I was delighted to see flowering lotus, fragipani and giant water lillies amongst soneother weird and wonderful sights.

And didn't know the euphoria family includes some thin cactus like plants.

18/07/2024

Staying with friends just outside Pisa meant I was treated to seasonal salads, obligatory ice cream and contemporary pizza. Can't complain about the food but it was hot at 35 degrees. :)

25/06/2024

Our Vase arrangements at £45 includes a glass jar and are super convenient for the person receiving your flowers.
They arrive all arranged ready to put straight out, ideal for a new mum or elderly relative who you don't want rummaging around in the back of their cupboards around looking for a vase. Plus they get a keepsake of your gift that they can fill again and again with their own flowers.

19/06/2024

PETALS and a PINT - Our next FLOWER ARRANGING TASTER workshop held in St Werburgs Bristol is on Thursday 11 th July from 7 to 9 pm £35.
You can book your place and have an evening of floral fun by clicking the link in the comments.

15/06/2024

Just had to post this 5 star review

15/06/2024

Just had to post this 5 stars review

15/06/2024

10/06/2024

With roses at their peak at the minute I felt this flower should be the cover girl for last week celebration of . And being the flower most associated with love a good choice to thank my customers for supporting my business and the British cut flower industry.
Like many members of , who have taken over this celebration from Covent Garden flower market, I am a very small scale grower. But from my tiny patch I deliver to my immediate postcodes in Bristol. And for any wedding or larger funeral work I can count on the support of fellow growers and friends who are florists too.
I had not expected to find so much reward doing this but it is obvious why really. Being close to nature's beauty and servicing those important moments in people's lives is an honour. Thank you once again.

07/06/2024

Looking for the perfect summertime activity? 
Head over to WIPER AND TRUE's drinking establishment at St Werburgs for our PETALS AND A PINT monthly FLOWER ARRANGING TASTER WORKSHOPS and treat yourself to some creative seasonal fun.
DATES: 13th June, 11th July & 19th September 
COST:£35
BOOKING: bestofthebunch.co.uk under workshops tab

It's what summers all about!

03/06/2024

It's .
Started in 2013 to shine a spotlight on the British cut flower industry, it seeks to raise the profile of growers, wholesalers and florists who work with UK grown flowers.

Let me introduce myself.

I have been involved with horticulture for 30 years primarily as a garden designer but also through working with the garden training charity Co ordinating placements for training Gardeners and then more recently growing cut flowers for my flower arranging workshops and now also for sale as gift bouquets.
It's was when conveying new border designs to clients that I discovered the instant and pure joy of flower arranging. As I always grew the flowers I designed with to check their robustness it was easy to gather them into a simple bouquet to show the aesthetic, mood and specific flowers to a client. Soon I was hooked and would always have a vase of garden flowers on the kitchen table.
When I set up The Crafty Gardeners, a flower and garden school with fellow garden designer Michelle Wake 7 years ago I started growing flowers for the flower arranging workshops I taught. During the pandemic, when the flowers destined for workshops couldn't be used I made them up into gift bouquets for neighbours. They were a real hit and got me to set up a retail gift bouquet business.

These days you can find me delivering gift bouquets within Bristol, using my cut flowers for regular flower arranging workshops and doing the odd wedding or funeral flowers.

31/05/2024

The first sweet peas of the year are like the first strawberries of the seadon- eagerly awaited for and consumed with rapture.
These are the first to flower from a trio of different varieties I planted around my hand woven plant support barely 3 weeks ago. These healthy plants are from the green fingered grower Catherine who has carefully selected good varieties to grow from seed including a bushy one perfect for a pot. If you're lucky she still might have a few left to order from her website. These she delivered to my door in Bishopston by bicycle.

21/05/2024

Happiness is a client taking the time to email me with her delight at receiving her birthday bouquet.

'Stunning flowers and beautifully arranged, I adore the natural garden look and all the little touches like forget me nots added. You can see everything is put together with love. Thank you!'

19/05/2024

Ready for your bouquets this week are nigella and white sweet rocket.
Order through the website (link in bio) or DM. Prices start at £22.50 for a bouquet with FREE delivery to BS6 in Bristol.

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