Parish.Petals

09/09/2024

Carnival deals!!!
For one week only all cut flowers this week £8 a bunch!
Available to purchase The Garden Shop Colyton Amy’s at The Filling Station
Cut this morning, shop fast they won’t hang around!🌸🥳

08/09/2024

And ending the weekend with some more amazing photos of yesterday via the talented Emma Herrod photography.
2025 is very quickly filling now so don’t hesitate to drop me a ping and talk all things florals!
A huge thanks to my dear mum (in the last photo) she really does get dragged around for the ride ☔️ 🤭
Thank you for every ones lovely
Comments.

08/09/2024

L E E & I Z Z Y
Just wow. So dare I say this was my first dried flower wedding, which I was a tad nervous about! But gosh it turned out better than I could have ever expected 🪄
Pink bridesmaid bouquets
Rustic home made flower girl wands
The most gorgeous colorful yet elegant bridal bouquet
Lots of little mini dried bunches for pews
And two whimsical romantic dried urns.

And I think I’m now converted to dried flowers after a love hate relationship with them in the past!

Congratulations to the new Mr & Mrs Clifford, you were a dream to work for and the results were amazing.

I’d love to know all your thoughts on dried flowers!
🥰

05/09/2024

Did some one say carnival!?!… 🎡
My entry for the shop window this year, is a take on Van Gogh “Sunflower” can you tell!?
All home made, and even painted by my fine hands (begging for votes 🗳️)
If you like what you see, please vote!!!! Voting slips are in the Colyton shops and to be put in the box outside the town hall.
All credit to my lovely accountant CRW for another brilliant window, it’s also one to look for!

04/09/2024

The Colyton wedding of the year. 🪄
They don’t grow any nearer than this ✨ 🌸

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093794601211 🎪

30/08/2024

Friday flowers The Garden Shop Colyton
Freshly cut last evening less than 5mins away 🌸☀️
The cafe is open, the sun is shining. Happy weekend ☀️

20/08/2024

Did some one say sweet peas!? 🌸☺️
The Colyton Garden shop and Amy’s cafe are now stocked with fresh flowers for the week ahead.
Please note parish petals is now closed as we take our week off in Italy 🇮🇹
Business will be back open next Thursday. Thank you for all your lovely comments, the brake is needed before the September wedding rush! 🥰 see you soon x

12/08/2024

S A R A H 🌸👰‍♀️
What a day! A scorcher for a lovely Devon wedding ☀️
Starting with the glorious Southleigh church which I adore working at, a pink welcome arch followed by romantic flowing florals.

On to Harbour Axmouth for a pink country garden theme reception styled and all grown by myself and Lower cownhayne flowers.
Chair covers and blush pink sashes provided by myself, and cake also decorated by meee (if not nervously and last minute 😆)

The bridal party flowers, a large blousy feminine bouquet and smaller bouquets to complement. Pretty flower girl wands and lots of pink rose button holes.

Congratulations Sarah and Alex on your magical day. 🥰

10/08/2024

P O L L Y ⛺️ 🌈 N I C 🤍💚 Two wonderful weddings today and oh so different!! Starting the early morning in lovely Lyme for the beautiful Polly having a festival of color in her gorgeous garden. Polly created her own arch with the help of my flowers 👏🏼 Moving on to the gorgeous Nic with her elegant greens and whites over in sidmouth. Congratulations to both couples you’ve been dreams to work for. 🩵

Two weddings done ✅ Two to go 💨

06/08/2024

With the fresh flowers comes the dried flowers, if not just as important for those winter arrangements. A nice summer evening haul of seed heads.
🌾🍁

27/07/2024

J U L Y 👰‍♀️ Two of this week’s beautiful weddings 🪄 I had the honor of working along side the lovely freelancing for the beautiful wedding, vibrant colorings along side a rustic vibe complimented their magical day. Yesterday I traveled down to the gorgeous to dress the venue in romantic whites and classic style of eucalyptus and roses. Massive appreciation to for a stunning display of cake and florals 👏🏼😍 congratulations to both the new couples on their newly married lives 💜

21/07/2024

18/07/2024

Fresh weekly flowers dropped of to The Garden Shop Colyton and Amy’s at The Filling Station 🌸☀️
Grown less than 0.5 of a mile away!
No chemicals
No air miles
Just wonderful Colyton grown flowers at their best.
Dropped of today are also lovely milk bottle flowers, ideal for teacher 🍎 📚 thank you gifts.
Support local. Support British flower farmers. ☀️🌸

15/07/2024

Wedding Prep 👰‍♀️
Bridesmaids Wands 🪄
A pretty alternative for the littlest members of the bridal party, a fun magical little gift to compliment the bride tribe.
These are proving very popular this wedding season, and I can’t wait to dress them in different colors and flowers 🌸
My books for the rest of the year are fully booked, taking bookings now for 2025/2026 👰‍♀️

02/07/2024

Set Game Match 🎾 🥂🍓🏓🏆

01/07/2024

Flowers are back at Amy’s at The Filling Station 🥳💐

And re stocked at The Garden Shop Colyton

Have a good week all 🥰☀️

28/06/2024

Launch day 🚀
Parish petals is now in The Garden Shop Colyton
🪴💐
Seasonal freshly grown Colyton flower bunches available whilst stocks last.
Support British flower farming, and shop local, it doesn’t get any fresher 🥰💐

25/06/2024

21/06/2024

G E O R G I A
Oh I do like it when my brides get their photos back!
I so loved Georgia’s bouquet with its mid spring wildness, and the spring aisle for the wedding party to walk down.
2024 is now completely full, taking bookings now for 2025 and 2026 🪄🌼
Happy weekend all 🌻

20/06/2024

💐📣 So the cats out the bag, I’m teaming up with the wonderful team at The Garden Shop Colyton 🪴 Selling my Colyton grown flower bunches!
Weekly fresh seasonal grown blooms grown right on your door step do head down and grab yourself a bunch! 🌼

My flowers will also be back at the wonderful Amy’s at The Filling Station so do head down, grab some great coffee ☕️ 🍰 and flowers 💐 and see the wonderful girls down there.

These will be arriving in the next couple of weeks so stay tuned!! 💐

13/06/2024

P O P P I E S
Cut at 10am, dramatically drooping by 2pm!
Iv grown masses of these this year purely for the 🐝 and my happiness looking at them ⭐️
They do look very moody in a display I think!

07/06/2024

Todays sympathy flowers 🕊️
Sympathy flowers don’t have to be formal and dreaded as so many people struggle with that decision.
Let the flowers be talked about, adding some little light on a dark day.
As these flowers are off to celebrate a wonderful life with some little added friends 🐝 ❤️

03/06/2024

🇬🇧 B R I T I S H F L O W E R W E E K 🇬🇧
June 3rd - 9th 2024 🤩
It’s back, the week to celebrate British flowers and what they mean!

British flowers to me is smelling the freshness, smelling their true scent, and their bold vibrant colors.
You may ask why I promote British flowers as much as i do, here’s some insight to what British flower week stands for.

🇬🇧Air miles, you also hear me drum on about no air miles! But what does this mean?- It means your whole sale florist flowers, flowers in supermarkets and garages are from as far as Kenya and South Africa and even Asia! Yes they are also heavily from the Netherlands, this means your flower has taken a long trip. To sustain the trip and keep fresh, the flower will have been chemically treated in Ethylene.
British growers as a rule won’t use and don’t need to use any chemicals to keep their flower alive, it’s simply cut conditioned and used to order.
More UK florists are getting in English grown flowers, and also supporting local growers in seasonal times.

🇬🇧 What growing flowers can do to the planet?..
By growing your own blooms, your feeding into the eco system. Not only with the soil, Your feeding bees, butterfly’s even bats!
Growing flowers releases oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide. It’s a food source and is supporting your ecosystem.

🇬🇧 The quality of a home grown flower is unmatched. It won’t have a super straight stem, it’ll have a bouncy whirly unusually pretty stem, it’ll be heavily scented, in some cases it’ll be a bigger flower head with more interesting layers.
They won’t be wrapped in plastic, they’ll come in recycled paper as natural as they can be.

🇬🇧And lastly, shopping local. You see it every where- support local businesses, “use it or loose it” But by doing this your also helping the economy, your again reducing carbon footprint but not only that your supporting a sole trader who is taking that income fully where they’ve worked hard for.

If you can do one thing this week, buy a local flower, plant a pack of a seeds, watch a bee 🐝 land on a bloom.
And think of how incredible a British flower can be.
Thank you for reading.
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02/06/2024

A busy morning on the plot ☀️
My 50 Dahlias are in 🥳 Myself and Lower Cownhayne flowers will have a whopping 150 different types of dahlia this year as we’ve both extended our growing patches! Watch this space! ☀️🤩

30/05/2024

T A S H A 🤍 All about yesterday 🪄 A stunningly elegant traditional wedding, set in the wonderful White peony, roses and stocks. Simple yet stunning. Cake by the talented 🎂 Congratulations to Tasha and Charlie a pleasure to be part of your day 🍾

25/05/2024

Summer has arrived at the The Gerrard Arms, Colyton Devon 🌸 ☀️
The hanging baskets are up, and the sun trap beer garden has been transformed with Devon grown cottage garden blooms.
All plants grown by myself, Lower cownhayne flowers and M.G Webber Honiton.
Head down and try out the new menu 🥘 and enjoy the newly designed garden 🪴
Availability for gardening and plants this summer, do pop me a ping!