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Floral design by Emma Spowage. Classically styled floristry married with unique modern designs. Beau
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09/08/2024

Beautiful foxglove details 💫💫

06/08/2024

Although this one didn’t go to plan as it broke coming out of the mould I just wanted to share with you as the plant details on this were so beautiful. By making the larger pieces and using more varieties the textures are just incredible so I am going to keep working on mastering this. Here I used garden daisies, achillea, poppy seed heads, lavender, oregano, eryngium, echinops, tansy, rosemary and statice 🌼🌿💫

09/07/2024

Echinops plaster imprint wall tile 💙🩶

04/07/2024

The details from the cow parsley are so beautiful, I love these 💫💫

02/07/2024

So here she is, the Solomon’s Seal cast tile finished, they are all sealed and have a hook on the back for hanging on the wall. I’d love to know what you think?! 🌿🌿🌿

05/06/2024

Hello! 👋 Well it’s been a while and the more time that passed the harder it felt to get back here so encouraged by a flowery friend I thought over the next few weeks I would share with you some of my new botanical projects that I’ve been experimenting with.
Most people that know me well know that I have struggled with a long term spine injury for most of my life, I have always been determined to not let it get in the way of the things I love but sadly over more recent years that has become the case. I always find it amazing to watch other people as I actually can’t even remember a day that I wasn’t in pain with my back, I think I was around the age of 12. Anyway it’s a very boring and annoying problem but despite years of pain relief medication, injections, nerve blocks, spinal fusion surgery and endless physios, chiropractors, yoga and health advice I have just managed it until last summer when right in the middle of a very busy flower growing and wedding season I had to suddenly stop one of my painkillers because they had caused me some other really nasty problem. Unfortunately this left me limping through the rest of wedding season in a lot of pain so I’ve had to make some decisions for looking after my back for the rest of my life. When the surgeon fitted a metal cage to stabilise my spine ten years ago he told me there were two main things he was worried would cause me a problem; the first was heavy lifting and the second was falling off my horse, I try very hard not to do the latter but unfortunately both flower growing and styling large scale floral events involve a lot of physical work and heavy lifting so something had to change. I have had to scale back all my large events and have been learning more about different art processes using plants from my own garden and the wild hedgerows.
If you’re still here thank you and apologies it’s such a long one but I felt somehow I needed to share some sort of explanation!

01/12/2023

1st December 2023
Morning light on the very last of the garden flowers.
Chrysanthemums from the poly tunnel
Roses and hips from around the garden
Helichrysum and statice dried from the raised beds in summer and lots of beautiful beech twigs from my favourite tree at the end of the garden. Happy festive month to you all E xx
Silk styling cloth

29/11/2023

I have added new items to my Etsy shop this week; my gift card sets have been restocked, these gorgeous quality cards come in 12 designs, one for every month of the year, each are of my homegrown flowers that I have styled and photographed here in my studio. A beautiful bespoke everlasting wreath filled with garden grown dried flowers and seedheads and wrapped in luxury velvet ribbon by and my dried flower glass dome display cloches are back too. Please dm for more details or follow the link below passionflowersdesign.etsy.com directly to the Etsy shop 🌼🍂💫

05/11/2023

The joy of choosing an everlasting bridal bouquet 🌸🌾🧡
Always grateful when couples share photos from their special day with me. Thank you to lovely for these beautiful images by the amazing
Natural plant dyed linen ribbons

30/10/2023

Wishing the happiest of birthdays to my baby girl 💖
I’m so proud of the independent, sassy, funny, hardworking, beautiful shining star that you are
🤩🌟✨💫
I love and miss you so much 💞💞
Photos 1 & 2
Photo 3

29/10/2023

Autumn 🍂🌼🍁 I love your colour, I love your light, I love that you bring me dark evenings for Netflix 🙌
You can stop with the rain for a bit now though!! 🙋🏻‍♀️

26/10/2023

My favourite rose collection from the garden earlier in the season 🌸🌸🌸

22/10/2023

Coolest, funniest M o B looking stunning 😍💙
So good to see you again recently, bloody love you Rev EB 🤣🙌🏼💖💫
Gorgeous photo by

17/10/2023

The last of the dahlias yesterday before the frost took them all ❄️🥀
It’s been a good year for them with plenty of rain through the summer. No season is ever the same with flower growing, last autumn was so mild they were flowering almost to the end of November 🌸🍂❄️🥀
Beautiful silk cloth

11/10/2023

Well this was fun 🎃🎃🎃

06/10/2023

One of my favourite late summer garden gathered bouquets with all the romance of ruffles and twiddly bits! 🌸🧡💫
Concept, Planning & Styling
Concept & Floral Design
Photography & Film Venue
Bridal Dress & Veil
Hair Accessories & Jewellery
Bridal Shoes
Tableware
Linen
Furniture & Props
Stationery .uk
Rings + Diamond Earrings
Hair  via
Cake Design
Bouquet Ribbons
Bride .c

05/10/2023

End of season appreciation bringing all the drama 🌸🌺🌼

03/10/2023

A most beautiful October day for Sarah and Gary 🌼🌞🧡💫
Venue
Stunning photos by
Flowers
Gorgeous silk ribbons

25/09/2023

The flowers are slowing down now but they have given so much this year. With all the rain over summer the garden has kept quite green and healthy unlike the two previous summers we’ve had when everything felt burnt and I struggled to keep things coming and staying fresh. There’s quite a balance to strike with this flower growing thing and one year is never the same as the last so predicting timings for production can be tricky and stressful at times but my garden has given me it’s best shot this year and now it’s mainly down to the dahlias, roses and some late summer/autumn blooms to keep it flourishing until I put everything to bed for another winter 🌞🌼🌸🧡

24/09/2023

I had such a beautiful and creative day last week when I joined mumma and baby photographer on a shoot.
Charlotte and her husband Sam were one of my wedding couples over five years ago and now they have their own little boy Noah Charlotte is running her own photography business for modern parent and baby portraits. Charlotte contacted me and we had a chat about a flowery collaboration which I really liked the idea of getting involved in.
I was excited to set up the floral installations for the day but also just as excited to finally get my own camera out again after having very little time this year and although felt quite rusty on settings I was quite happy with how some of these came out.
Thank you to all of our gorgeous models who were amazing 🤩🌞🌼🧡👌🏼💫
First up were the adorable .roses and Flynn who was just a total star at only 3 months old.
I hope you feel I captured some special moments with your gorgeous little boy Lola, it was so lovely to meet you both 🌼🤎

22/09/2023

Two years ago I had the privilege of transforming this stunning library into “a walk through the Colne Valley” for the annual flower festival curated by .chappell.flowers and
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to make it back since then due to my own busy work commitments but it is a truly wonderful exhibition to visit and being held again this weekend. Starting today until Sunday the festival is a glorious collaboration of some of our most creative and talented British flower growers and floral stylists coming together to design and construct the most beautiful displays in this magical little castle. Every design is made with ethically grown british flowers using only sustainable floristry techniques and without the use of floral foam and unnecessary single use plastic mechanics.
Wishing Leigh, Janne and all my flowery friends who are there this weekend a truly wonderful time at the magnificent home of Horace Walpole. I know it’s going to be very special again and I’m sorry I couldn’t be there with you all to take part 🌺🌸🏰🍓xx

28/07/2023

I’m looking for two extra freelance florists to join me and my team on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th of September where we’ll be returning to to create some more floral magic
Please get in touch for more details 🌸🌼💖
Photo table styling
Flowers

28/07/2023

Happy anniversary to this lovely couple, still one of my favourite weddings to flower, the coolest bride, the most beautiful bridesmaid’s dresses and to work with the incredible photographer all made it such a special and memorable day 💖🥂🎉

Address

18 Colne Park Road, White Colne
Colchester
CO62PL

Website

http://www.passionflowersbyemmaspowage.co.uk/

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The beautiful Mr & Mrs Butler 💖 It’s always a huge honour to be part of a long process of months of planning, growing and designing for such an important day for all of my couples, thank you so much to Katie and Jack for trusting me with your flowery vision. I’m also very grateful when I get sent a set of photos as stunning as these 🌸💖A whole list of incredible suppliers were involved🥂💫Photography @ellavioletphoto Videography joshuaandrewpotter Makeup @alicewottonmakeup Hair BeckyFlowers @passionflowersbyemmaspowage Dress @rosa_clara Suits @thegroomsroomessex Catering @blackwellscatering Desserts @lucyskitchen11 Cake Auntie Bev! Bar & cocktails @thebardistrict Marquee @county_marquees Styling @pitchboutique A big thank you also goes to my freelancers @thepetalgirl and @aliciaflowerdesigner for all their hard work and help in the 30+ degrees heat that week ☀️🌸🌸