The Flower Pedlar

24/01/2025

in my Little Flower Stall on the Droxford School crossroads SO32 3QR. A little something pretty for the weekend ❤️

17/01/2025

Happy Little Things to be had in my Flower Stall from now until Sunday night on the school crossroads SO32 3QR. Grab & Go

31/12/2024

🌸My New Year Resolutions 🌸

💥Sow only the most beautiful flower seeds, ensuring quality and aesthetics in every bloom.

💥 Use mindful colour choices by sticking to a strict color palette and respecting the principles of color theory.

💥Prioritise customer satisfaction by ensuring that my stall is always well-stocked, preventing any disappointments for visitors.

💥Focus on crafting bouquets that embody texture, balance, and contrast, elevating the art of floral arrangement.

💥continue to cultivate my love for flowers, allowing my passion to shine through in every bouquet.

🎉HERE’S TO A BLOOMING BEAUTIFUL 2025🎉

20/12/2024

💐Last Minute Gift? We’ve Got You Covered!💐

Surprise your loved ones with a Flower Bouquet Gift Voucher. Perfect for those spontaneous moments when you need a thoughtful gift in a hurry.

👇How It Works:👇
✅Purchase a gift voucher.
✅Your local recipient can choose their favorite bouquet from our weekend flower stall.
✅ Let them enjoy the beauty of fresh flowers, tailored to their taste!

💝Give the Gift of Choice, because

17/12/2024

Thank you to all my lovely customers for finding good homes for my flower bouquets this year. Your support means the world to me and I couldn’t do it without you. Happy Christmas to you all

15/12/2024

11/12/2024

I like to enhanced my winter and Christmas bouquets by using Fir foliage and cones, twiggy sticks and cedar roses. I like to add scent with cinnamon sticks, Christmas tree foliage and orange slices. All these things added to Christmas colour flowers achieves a wintery garden style.

06/12/2024

A little bit Chr!$tm@s. When the decs are up, the bouquet has to match! But I also have my usual pinks and other non-Christmas for those who aren’t ready or have a winter birthday. My stall is open every weekend 24 hours self-service Friday to Sunday SO32 3QR 💐❤️⭐️

29/11/2024

in my Flower Stall Fri-Sun 24 hrs self-service SO32 3QR

24/11/2024

Here’s my bouquet making routine:
- strip and prepare foliage, inspect blooms for imperfections, remove any foliage below the water line and remove guard petals from roses
- Cut all stems to reopen the water absorbing cells.
- Put flowers in buckets, separating into colours and flower shapes then leave to ‘condition’ for 6 hours.
- Work into spiral bouquets and put all bunches together into one big bucket for another long drink.
- Wrap in brown paper, tie with a raffia bow and add a care label.

19/11/2024

We are expecting our first frost tonight which will come as bit of a shock as I have got used to the unusually warm autumn we have had so far. I have still been picking dahlias, Lavatera, roses and snapdragon. The cosmos and calendula are also still flowering but the blooms are too weak and small to be used as they try to cope with the lack of light. Once the frost has been, I will lift and store my dahlias, plant my bulbs and I will continue to carefully w**d the beds, protecting any self-sown annual seedlings so they are ready for early flowers next year. I always wait until after Christmas before I start to mulch and feed the beds with manure as a good incentive after the excesses of Christmas. I don’t do Wreaths, so now is my quiet time when I design next year’s bouquets and order the seed, prep bouquet Wraps, tie labels and reorganise and tidy my flower shed. I always think I will have time in the winter to snuggle up in an armchair with a cuppa and a good book but I never manage it. Maybe this year ...?

05/11/2024

I thought it was about time I reintroduced myself. So here I am a plant-aholic flower lover, usually looking scruffy with scratched hands, dirty fingernails and twigs in my hair. In the early days, a post-children career change led me to garden design because I loved gardening and had a vision of working at my drawing board with my small children quietly playing will toys at my feet. Ah hem, that didn’t quite work out! After qualifying at Sparsholt, I ended up designing more than 100 gardens over the years and that led to me setting up a gardening agency where I used to find ‘proper’ gardeners for people who needed them. I then took a back seat working as a Communal Garden Gardener for a large estate for a few years until I started working the flowers I grew into garden style bouquets. I’m a full time flower farmer florist now and have been for 5 years. I’m still loving flowers. Still loving what I do. Best job ever!

01/11/2024

Card message: “I just wanted to send you a smile today”. Many bunches of smiles to be had in my little Flower Stall Friday to Sunday, self-service, 24 hrs on the Droxford School crossroads SO32 3QR

27/10/2024

I love this connection between my flowers and the creativity of a customer in my village which gives a lovely sense of community. Jacqui is very talented. I wish I could draw like this, although she calls it a “doodle” - some doodle! Her Christmas tree “doodle” is beautiful too. Her page is here if you want to give her a quick follow

25/10/2024

Seasonal garden-style flowers in my little Flower Stall this weekend from Friday until Sunday. On the Droxford School Crossroads SO32 3QR. Self-service 24hrs. Parking here too 👍 Bouquets include: Michaelmas daisy, garden rose, dahlia, sea lavender, snowberry, rose hip, ivy berries, cosmos, Astranthia, mint and fern

22/10/2024

From celebrations to more sorrowful events, flowers have the ability to touch the lives of every person who receives them and, regardless of the situation, put a smile on their face and brighten their day.

18/10/2024

🥺BAD NEWS FOLLOWS (sorry!) 🥺Dear lovely customers, As the growing season comes to an end, so do my allotment-grown flowers. I will now have to rely on the wholesaler which means my prices will rise to £15 for a brown paper Wrap and £7 for a jam jar posy. I am shocked at how much the wholesale prices have risen and prices there are mostly more than that of a supermarket. You can rest assured that thought and artistry will go into each of my carefully designed bunches. This price rise means that at the wholesaler, I can choose THE MOST beautiful flowers and my bunches will not (supermarket-like) contain cheap generic yellow chrysanthemum or God forbid, a dyed one! Thank you for your understanding. Debbie x My weekend Flower Stall is at the Droxford School crossroads SO32 3QR

06/10/2024

“It ain’t over, ‘til it’s over!” As the growing season draws to a close, that feeling of loss returns and the dark days arrive when, BOOM, my life is flower-filled again! We popped over to 🌷 in Holland for a very flowery weekend. You’ve heard of holland’s spring bulb fields, well there are also dahlia fields. We hired a tandem and a scooter from and happily zipped along the colourful fields, stopping at flowery places along the way. In the insect and butterfly filled dahlia fields, I found new favourites; the colour and size of which just can’t be captured in the photograph of a brochure. Holland does horticulture in a BIG way and the garden centres are amazing with so many solutions for all things gardening. We joined other smiley people on bikes on the off-road designated scooter route, passing sweet little Dutch houses and gardens, lakes and through villages to be explored. My floral itch has been well and truly scratched and I’ve had enough of a flowery fix with lovely memories to see me through the dark days of winter ahead. I’ll share more treats from my trip in my stories this week so you can enjoy them too.