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Rachel - North Cornwall Florist
Working with the seasons
Flowers that are kinder to the planet

13/12/2024

When you make a door swag for someone else but you can't bear to take it off your door to give it to them. Yeah, this is where we are at this morning folks. 🌿🌿🌿

11/12/2024

A gorgeous afternoon spent with the gang. We made A LOT of Christmas wreaths today, and every single one was utterly beautiful 💕🌿💕🌿

03/12/2024

Pretty in pink 🌸🌿

Finishing off a few Christmas commissions this week before we get stuck into the next round of workshops 🌿🌿

Tomorrow is a workshop prep day as I've got a couple of days away from the studio planned this week and so time is a little bit tight. I'll be spending the day ✂️🌿✂️🌿✂️🌿 making sure we have the most gorgeous foliage for your creations this weekend.

We use 100% locally grown foliage for our wreaths, as well as dried goodies, saved from the summer and autumn garden. Our bases are made with locally grown willow and sustainably collected moss and this year we are also trailing some compostable ribbon too, ensuring your wreaths as are sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible. 🌿🌿🌿

03/12/2024

It's hard not to miss the summer when photos like this from the super talented drop into your inbox.

Lucy & Sam married on a beautifully warm and sunny day back in August at the stunning

We all loved this colour palette, chosen by the bride and groom and delivered with 100% locally grown flowers.

So in love with how British grown flowers add such a wild and natural feeling to our arrangements, how they smell so good too, and how they massively help reduce the carbon footprint of your wedding day.

Grown, as always, by the dream team of and and little bits and bobs from our own little cutting garden too 🌿

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01/12/2024

November snaps.

There's still beauty to be found, even in the cold, grey months.

1. Doorstep winter planters for some of my regular customers
2. Catching the last of the above 10 degrees sea pool temperatures
3. Collecting dried beauty ready for Christmas wreath making.
4. Making farewell arrangements, in almost, almost 100% British grown
5. Collaborating with fellow flower lovers on new compostable bases for my arrangements
6. Gathering, gathering, gathering for all my December wreath makers

28/11/2024

We now have over 70 of you lovely people booked onto one of our winter workshops this December. We'll all be making stunning wreaths, packed with locally grown greenery, carefully collected seed heads as well as dried flowers and grasses. As usual, it's going to be really bloody lovely seeing you all, and providing you with the best that nature has to offer at this time of year, with sustainability right at the top of the agenda.

And for those of you who can't come along, but who would still love a wreath to adorn your door, then we will be beavering away making this small but perfectly formed collection of luxurious circular celebrations of the winter months (pictured here). We have made three designs and given them suitably festive names, and when I get a spare second tomorrow, I will pop them all up on the website for you to order.

Thanks as always for all the support from my little planet positive floristry business. I do love this time of year and gathering the most beautiful things to celebrate the changing of the seasons in our cosy winter homes 🌿

14/11/2024

September pastels for Charlotte on her wedding day.

I struggle to pick a favourite colour palette, but there's something about peachy, pinky tones with tiny pops of blue, which set my heart racing.

As I work predominantly with in season, locally grown flowers, I often tell my couples that we don't promise to include specific flowers in your wedding day arrangements (as the British weather which provides their growing conditions can be a fickle and wily beast), but what we can promise is that your wedding day flowers will be utterly beautiful and that they will be much kinder to the planet than their imported counterparts.

We love using what grows here, down the road, in our beautiful county, rather than flying blooms in from across the globe.

We're also discovering that using locally grown flowers gets such a positive reaction from all your wedding day guests. We never get tired of hearing all the lovely things they say to us when we're setting things up, or when we come back the following day to clear everything away. They really are such a lovely talking point and we adore providing them for your special day.

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11/11/2024

Magical photos from of Rosie & Chase's loved filled day back in July. We flowered the beautiful garden at with floral pillars and meadow boxes. The sun shone brightly and the day felt so filled with love and happiness. Everything was created using locally grown flowers - thank you and for always growing such beauty and thank you to Rosie & Chase for going all in our plan to make wedding day flowers have the smallest environmental footprint as possible. They really were the dream couple - so sweet, so kind and just so bloody lovely to work with. Thank you for having us along as part of your special day.

06/11/2024

I loved, loved, loved adding flowers to beautiful creation, made for Hannah & Adrian earlier in the year. We used the most gorgeous locally grown blooms, making Hayley's stunning design pop with Spring vibes. As we wave goodbye to this season's British grown blooms, I can't help but get excited about all the spring blooms to come, and all my lovely Spring 2025 weddings. Looking forward with hope, love and flowers on this pretty dreadful day in world politics 🌸🌿🌸🌿

30/10/2024

Back from Scotland to a long list of jobs in the garden. The weather has been perfect for October gardening today so I've taken advantage of it and ignored my computer all day. I've given two rampant Himalayan honeysuckles a little trim but I've left the fennel heads (both pictured) standing because they look beautiful and maybe the birds will nibble on them through the winter months. I've planted some narcissi (indoors and outdoors), weeded two raised beds, popped some tulips and muscari into pots, moved a small hydrangea that wasn't doing very well, snipped back the verbena that was looking well past its best and filled a border with fifty alliums. I love, love, love this part of the gardening year, even though it feels completely overwhelming some days. At least the weather seems to be on our side at the moment 🌿🍂🌿🍂

22/10/2024

I love working with the seasons, it's what makes the kind of floristry I do really exciting...using the ever changing things that grow around us means that our designs change each month, sometimes each week.

At Bude Botanical we design our arrangements to suit the season, which isn't the norm...many, many florists work the other way around, designing the arrangements and installations and then buying flowers from all over the planet to fit the look. It feels odd to me, not using the ever changing colours and varieties that grow on our doorstep.

I especially love the different foliages that each season brings. I have a secret stash of spindleberry that I spy at this time of year on one of my dog walks, it's bright pink berries looking so magical as the leaves around it begin to turn golden. We used spindleberry in this beautiful installation pictured above, which was created by foliages, some flowering and some berried.

There is beauty in nature and in our natural surroundings. Sometimes we just have to stop for a second and notice it.

18/10/2024

In the end it's just love.

Making beautiful arrangements to help families say goodbye.

15/10/2024

A little raindrop, captured on a long and lovely dog walk yesterday. Always trying to locate the small moments of joy as I move through the world. I've had a funny lurgy for a few days which has mainly been about tiredness and headaches, and I've also just had my flu jab today, so I can't say I'm feeling totally full of joy, but this lilac fuchsia made me stop in my tracks for a moment yesterday.

Although it's a wrap on wedding season, I'm still busy beavering away in the studio. I have two beautiful farewell arrangements to make tomorrow and I'm finally catching up with my zoom calls with 2025 wedding couples this week. The inbox is almost, almost (almost) back to normal, thanks for bearing with me.

I'm busy drying hydrangeas this week too, ready for Christmas workshops, as well as collecting all the bits and bobs I love to add to the now famous Christmas nature table (if you've been on one of my workshops you'll definitely know about the closely guarded nature table 😊). The workshops are almost, almost sold out now. There are quite a few spots left for 1 December afternoon at The Castle Christmas Fayre in Bude. Link in bio if you're hoping to book up.

And on Saturday I get to flower all day in a freelance capacity at a very beautiful event here in Cornwall, which I'm really looking forward to.

Anyway, this is just a little ramble about bits and bobs and nothing really. Hope you're all well and managing to locate the small moments of joy in your lives 🌿🌸🌿🌸

04/10/2024

A summer of love. A bounty of beautiful bouquets at the ready for my brides and their maids.

I do love a windowsill shot in the beautiful manor house, overlooking the walled garden on wedding day morning.

There has been amazing amounts of sun on these joyful Saturday mornings, in the midst of a very, very wet summer Cornish summer. 🌿🌸☀️

I would say around 99% of the flowers in these bouquets were grown locally, by amazing women.

Bude Botanical is a planet positive floral design studio. Protecting the planet is at the heart of our business and our goal is to provide flowers that have as light an environmental footprint as possible. You can read more about our sustainability work via the link in our bio.

29/09/2024

I love the way the light changes at this time of year. There is a warm autumnal glow in mill barn in September. We've loved dressing this beautiful old building this year. I love the way it feels different during the changing seasons.

Yesterday we flowered our old vintage milk churns with dahlias, zinnias, cosmos and roses. We used autumnal foliages to give the pastel colours a September warmth - ivy that is just starting to flower, ornamental currant, that has the loveliest orange tint to the edge of it's leaves, heuchera blooms that have gone to seed, raspberry foliage with golden berries and my favourite - honeysuckle, with it's delicate flowers and tendrils. I'm all about foliage and how it changes the look of our designs throughout the year.

As well as our vintage milk churns we also made a beautiful arrangement for the registrar's table, which was then moved to decorate the top table for the wedding reception. We love making arrangements that can be moved and which look beautiful throughout your wedding day.

This week I'll be getting back on top of the to-do list..getting back to all my couples waiting for quotations and proposals - but I've also got my lovely mam visiting Cornwall too, so things will be at a slightly slower pace than usual. Bear with me xx

28/09/2024

Last wedding of the season delivered today ✔️

I definitely feel and look older than I did at the start of the year. It's been a crazily emotional time.

Losing a parent when you're knocking 50 is hardly a shock, or a tragedy, but it has been, I can quite simply say, just a really, really sad time.

Running a wedding business means that you can't just take the week off to pull yourself together...you simply have to get on, putting one foot in front of the other even when you're in the thick of things like sitting by hospital beds, travelling the length of the country or planning a funeral. I sat and ordered flowers for a wedding in the hours after dad died, and cannot thank my amazing growing friends enough, Phoebe and Georgina, for just giving me that space to be weird...distracting myself with our spreadsheet that afternoon when I was in the numb and shocked phase of grief. They did and said all the right things. Thank you for growing such beauty for all of my weddings this year.

Amongst it all there has been my lovely couples. They have ALL been so kind, sending messages of support, being flexible when I needed to rearrange meetings, being patient when I had to be away from my computer and just being so bloody lovely. There is nothing quite like being a part of your happy days to take a massive edge of the sadness that I've been feeling. Flowers and love are all we ever really need I think. I've had those in spades this summer.

Thank you to my friends for making everything ok. There is one in particular who turned up for two weddings when I was really not myself. She held ladders, carried buckets, swept floors and even learned how to make a flower crown. You are bloody amazing Kaz.

Freelancer gang...you saved the whole season really. Particularly Charlie. I feel today's wedding was us back to normal after lots of days when I really wasn't firing on all cylinders. You're a bloody rock. Thank you

And finally, the love of my every single day, Mike, who has hastily built roof racks, attached ladders, brought forgotten things, brought coffee, walked the dog and made this wedding season doable. Thank you, darling.

Over and out. Back soon x

24/09/2024

Because a few of you have been asking :-) ...here is my Christmas wreath making events programme and booking is now open!

Delighted to be delivering workshops with The Castle Bude, Café, Galleries and Heritage Centre , Falcon Hotel Bude , Welcombe Pottery and Bude Cancer Support

We can’t wait to welcome you to our workshops this winter. Come along, immerse yourself in gorgeous wintery goodness, and make something with a little bit of wow factor to welcome your guests into your home this Christmas.

https://budebotanical.com/floral-workshops/

13/09/2024

Autumnal floral gatherings for the Mill Barn at A beautiful hanging installation for Kitty & Joe, who married here on Saturday.

I love, love, love September and the colours that this beautiful month brings us. It feels like a new beginnings kind of month, a month for adventuring, a month for taking stock, a month for noticing the changes and a month for making plans.

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