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Entwine Floral Design, Frimley (2024)

16/09/2024

Beautiful September 🌸🍂

Rich, ripened and resplendent, full of sunshine warmth.

Oooooh Yessssss.

27/08/2024

Late August on the bench 🌿

Abelia, Fuschia, Hypericum and Crocosmia, with lime green Jasmine and reddening leaves of Viburnum.

It's a wonderful time of year to enjoy flowers in the home, savouring Summer as the evenings draw in.

Order my bouquets, bunches and posies online for local and surrounding area delivery 💐

Summer with a touch of Autumn - it's beautifully rich and vibrant - let's go!

31/07/2024

This time last year at the allotment 🌼🍅

Beds bursting with flowers and rows full of veg.

Missing my buckets full of flowers and our trug full of veg this year!

The vegetable patch is now being enjoyed by someone new, whilst the flower patch is currently a shadow of it's former self. As the remaining flowers finish I'm covering the beds. In the Autumn we will lift the last of the perennial plants and bring them back to the new garden.

Meanwhile, in the new garden - this is the area I plan to create my new flower patch in. Somewhere amongst the bracken, ferns, brambles, stinging nettles, rodgersia, hypericum, tree saplings and ground-covering something or other.

Last week I chopped back the bracken to gauge the potential space available. I planned to start digging up some of the ferns to make a dent - I didn't get very far - we have heavy clay soil. Needless to say the part I cleared still looks the same as it did a week later, other than the addition of new fern fronds and fresh bramble growth 🌿

It's a stop and start long term project this one 😆

👩🏼‍🌾👨🏻‍🌾

09/07/2024

On a sunnier day ☀️

Blue skies, butterflies and flowery trousers in the beautiful Surrey countryside.

Thank you for the impromptu photo opportunity! 📸

05/07/2024

Summer Sale 🌼

My remaining collection of Forever Flowers are now 20% off!

Beautiful homegrown dried flower wreaths to hang in your home or to use as a fabulous table centerpiece.

Available for local/surrounding area delivery of Plaistow RH14 - if you'd like one let me know. Visit Shop on the website for details and to view the full collection. There is only one of each available and they are just so delightful.

Enjoy glorious summer flowers all year round ☀️

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03/06/2024

Today is the start of 🇬🇧

A week of recognising, promoting and showcasing just how wonderful British-grown flowers are.

Originally created by , is now proudly managed by .

As well as celebrating the beauty of , this week is an opportunity to find out more about your local growers, flower farmers and florists whom embrace and champion seasonal, sustainable, British flowers and foliage.

I use 100% British stems in my work, all year round. If you've followed me from the beginning you'll be familiar with how much joy homegrown and locally grown flowers bring me and how they have been a defining factor in transforming my business into what it is today.

This week, British grown flowers and foliage are firmly in the spotlight, so it's an ideal time to learn more about British cut flowers and why they are special.

Visit to read all about and to search for your nearest growers and suppliers of locally grown flowers.

Please do take some time to explore British flowers, they really will win you over 💐

24/05/2024

The garden table - the current workshop 🌿

I feel very lucky to have had a workshop at the old house - my own space where I could condition, design, create, find inspiration... surrounded by my vases, jugs, knick-knacks... with everything I needed to hand, behind my beautiful green front door.

Here at the new house I'm currently lacking a dedicated workspace, but I do have a beautiful garden. So I'm enjoying working within it - fresh air and a backdrop of garden delights, with birdsong as my soundtrack. Unless of course it's too hot, too cold or too wet, in which case it'll be the dining table!

With all my things dotted about here, there and everywhere, it can be a little disorganised for the brain sometimes, but one day I will have my own workshop again, somewhere in the garden, and it will be wonderful ☺️

I wonder what colour the front door will be?!? Or perhaps I'll mix it up...

21/05/2024

Last week I had the privilege of creating the most beautiful hand-tied posies for a natural burial.

Bright, colourful, natural British flowers to celebrate the life of a special lady whom, I humbly learnt, lived life to the full, and for her family, to make them smile.

The posies were shared by family and friends at the burial ground and the flowers then scattered.

Just perfect 🕊️

10/05/2024

Sweet Williams - an absolute favourite of mine last year.

They were a treat, and actually a wonderful surprise because they looked soooooo weedy for suuuuuch a long time. I was convinced I'd ruined them. And then they kept on giving for months! Oh it was a joy.

My visit to the flower patch this morning reminded me just how happy they made me.

There's a handful of plants that have come back this year which is fabulous, although the bed is patchy now so it won't be quite the show stopper it was last year. Some stems are beginning to flower and they will be celebrated by making their way into an order for next week 💐

I will definitely grow sweet williams in the new garden in the future, they will look amazing here. I just have to get organised to sow them on time. They are biennial so need to be sown May-July for flowering the following year... and I always miss the boat 🤦🏼‍♀️

These guys didn't flower in 2022 as planned because I didn't sow them when I should have (only 5 months late!) - instead, they used the time to beef up and flowered in 2023. A long time coming but soooooo worth the wait.

The plants that remain at the flower patch will move to the garden later this year 🌸

04/05/2024

Following on from my post about funeral flowers last month, I am delighted to let you know I have recently joined .

Created by and , The Farewell Flowers Directory is a growing network of independent florists all passionate about changing the world of funeral flowers; talking about them and how they are viewed, sharing a refreshing outlook, taking a different approach, offering an alternative choice and promoting sustainability.

Please do take some time to visit The Farewell Flowers Directory (link below). It is a thought-provoking website, full of insightful information and inspiring stories, and it can help you make an informed decision about flowers for funerals. You can search for florists locally to you by region.

https://www.farewellflowers.co.uk/

22/04/2024

Jolly happy to have unpacked the flower press 🩵

The prettiest little petals living on...

Snippets of a season captured in one and enjoyed in another.

The flowers I press make their way into your arrangements - my notecards, message cards, gift tags that accompany your flowers. Natural beauty preserved and appreciated, a little touch that makes me smile every time, I hope it makes you smile too.

The pressed petals that are damaged or too delicate... well, they end up as beautiful confetti!

Forget-me-nots are my favourite flower to press, shortly followed by Delphinium. Not limited to blue by the way... although I notice there seems to be a theme here 😆

18/04/2024

Coming from a new part of the woods...

The Entwine Collection is back!

Mid-Spring is here and the flowers are treating us to a landscape of new delights. My homegrown flowers are limited this year due to the move, but I am lucky to be surrounded by a wonderful selection of local growers with their beautiful flowers, so I am excited to now be able to offer my bouquets, bunches and posies for the first time in the new area 💐

Wild and natural in style, with charming British flowers and glorious seasonal ingredients, my signature collection of gift flowers is just the ticket for giving flowers as a special gift, to get creative with or to dress your home.

Choose:
The Delightful One
The Splendid One
The Creative One
The Petite One

Visit Shop on the website for full details of the arrangements I offer and to check delivery areas now that I am based in the Plaistow/Ifold area.

Ooooh I can't wait to see what will be in the first one 🌸🌷🌺🪻🌼🌿🌾

17/04/2024

Let's talk about funeral flowers...

When I started floristry the idea of funeral flowers filled me with fear. Not only was I worried how I would cope creating arrangements under such emotional and personal circumstances, I very much had the same image of funeral flowers in my mind as a lot of people do when it comes to sympathy flowers - without me even explaining what I mean, I'm sure you know exactly what I mean.

My floristry, my understanding of flowers and my awareness of the impact the floral industry can have on the environment has evolved hugely within the past 4 years. The more I developed the style of floristry I loved and experimented with sustainable floristry practices, the more comfortable I became with my flower design and creating arrangements that had minimal impact on the earth. The more I engaged with local growers and suppliers of British flowers the more passionate I became about my floristry ethos. The more flowers I grew myself, the more at peace I became with my own place in the floral business and in my decision to use ONLY British flowers and foliage in my work.

I am no longer scared of funeral flowers because I am not trying to recreate an image of what they 'ought' to be. They are beautiful, meaningful flowers, that reflect the seasons, celebrate the ingredients, capture the small details and represent the essence of an individual and their family.

My farewell flowers are 100% British and are created with products that are kind to the environment. I do not use floral foam or single use plastics. It's very important to me that my designs break down as naturally as possible.

Here pictured, a pair of spring hand-tied sheaves designed to lay together on the coffin. The family wished to take the flowers home with them afterwards so I wrapped the stems in moss and bound with hessian to maximise freshness. These arrangements were so incredibly beautiful and I feel they encapsulate everything my farewell flowers are about.

If I can assist you or your family with a special floral tribute or gesture please do let me know. Further details about my flowers for farewells can be found on the website 🕊️

08/04/2024

The wedding diary is open again! I'm now taking bookings for 2024/2025 🗓️

Having moved from Hampshire to West Sussex earlier this year, I'm excited to be thinking about weddings again. It's been a while since I've talked about wedding flowers, so...

As your florist, this is what you can expect from me:

🌿 Naturally beautiful flowers, packed to the brim with personality and soul.

🌿 Charming, meaningful, sustainable arrangements that appreciate every petal, every pigment, every scent, every bloom, every stage of a flower's life cycle.

🌿 Designs that embrace and reflect the beauty of the changing seasons, capturing a snapshot in time.

🌿 Wild, natural and textured florals that celebrate homegrown, locally grown, British flowers and foliage.

Garden inspired floristry, with meaning.

If you imagine truly wonderful British flowers as part of your wedding day please do get in touch, I would love to hear from you. You can contact me via the website or drop me an email 📨

Love and flowers 💘

05/04/2024

The bench, the bucket and the blooms...

These pretty faces came back with me from the flower patch last weekend. Delighted to be enjoying them in the new house, equally happy to have another bench for my photos!

At the allotment, the perennials, biannuals and the self seeders (oooh who's it going to be!?) will continue to grace us with their flowering this year, but I won't be sowing or planting anything new because we will gradually start moving plants to the new garden later in the year.

The daffodils are pot luck this spring as I lifted and replanted a good few due to changing beds about, and then the slugs and snails seem to have gone to town on them before they opened - these were the best of the bunch but wonderful none the less! The tulips are interesting little creatures - they are the breakaway bulbs of the original tulips I planted 3 years ago that I missed when pulling by the bulb last year. These were only ever going to be for me as I knew they would be on the weedy side - still beautiful and now on the dining table🌷

I can't wait to buy and plant new bulbs in the new garden in the Autumn. I'll need to reign myself in though 😬

26/03/2024

Hello from our new home in Plaistow, West Sussex 🏡

We are settling into country and village life very nicely. Positioned close to the Surrey border we are not too far away from the familiarity of the old stomping ground, but thrilled to now be living a more rural life and exploring pastures new. It feels as though we've been here longer than a few short weeks.

We loved the new house and garden from the moment we viewed it. It had been empty for a while but it had a warm soul and the garden was incredible. Nature was starting to take over but that was all part of the charm. We could feel it had been a well loved home and garden, but now in need of full modernisation and some tlc. We are very much looking forward to making it a special home once again.

With the most beautiful established garden to enjoy and experiment with, there is still so much to discover and unearth. So many wonderful trees, shrubs and plants. What a treat. And to get to know it throughout the Spring is just 👌🏼. We are gradually claiming it back piece by piece from the ridiculously giant brambles and the ivy (I'm keeping my eye on the ivy trails - everything has potential!), but the beauty to come is going to be a joy.

Loving countryside walks from the doorstep, birdwatching from the sofa, a constant soundtrack of bird song, the odd moo and the cock-a-doodle-doos. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but every day we are appreciating our new surroundings.

Over the next month I'll be working on shaping the business into what I imagine it looking like for this next exciting chapter. With space to grow flowers for cutting in our own garden from next year I can't wait to get planning on that. Once I've found my feet a little more within the new area, and the wrist has proved to me it's up to the job properly this time, I will start flowering again. I'll keep you posted🌷🌸🌺🪻🌱🌿🌳

I will share to my stories some of the garden treats that have emerged already 🙌

14/02/2024

Happy Valentine's Day 💞

Snowdrops in the little painted jug... that'll do nicely thank you ♡

06/02/2024

Forever Flowers for your Love 💝

If you're looking for something extra special this Valentine's Day how about one of my home-grown dried flower wreaths?

A charming selection of flowers grown by me and cut from the flower patch last summer. Every stem carefully dried and stored, each flower especially chosen and lovingly bound onto a grapevine base, finished with ribbon to beautifully display a glorious celebration of summer.

Made with a whole lot of love ❤

If my dried flower wreaths tickle your fancy pop over to the Shop on the website to view my full collection. With only one of each available, they really are a symbol of love that will live on in the home for many years to come.

My Forever Flowers are available for two days only next week - for collection on Tuesday 13th February or for local delivery on Valentine's Day Wednesday 14th February. If you would like one please do get in touch! 📧

01/02/2024

Hello Everyone 👋

Happy 1st February!

It's probably a little late for me to greet you with Happy New Year but I hope you are settling into 2024 nicely.

Usually by now I'm nice and organised with my plan for the year ahead - the new diary, new stationery, new ideas, new flower plans, new seeds - what to grow, where to grow, how to grow - imagining, designing, creating...

Well, I have the new diary, plenty of new ideas and I'm imagining all sorts of wonderful things to come!

But the rest, not so much 😆

Because... things are going to look a little different this year. We will be moving! 🏡

I look forward to sharing more on the move very soon, but in the meantime, as we dot the I's, cross the T's and navigate a period of limbo, will be taking a short break from flowering. I'll keep you up to date as the next few months unfold.

We'll treat ourselves to a greenhouse we can both fit into next time 🌱

#2024

22/12/2023

The workshop is tidy and order has resumed...

Now it's time to rest and enjoy 🎅

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and a very
Happy New Year! 🎄🥂 💫

12/12/2023

Back to the Summer, sort of...

In the form of beautiful homegrown dried flowers ♡

Designed to be displayed indoors as a wall hanging or a table centerpiece, my charming dried flower wreaths ensure summer lives on in the home in the most delightful way.

Visit the Shop on the website to take a look at my full collection of Forever Flowers.

There's still some time to order for collection or local delivery before Christmas. Just think how fabulous your home will look in January after the decs come down...

They also make a wonderful gift you know 😉

Contact me if you would like one 📧

11/12/2023

Christmas Wreathing 2023, all wrapped up!

Thank you so so much to everyone who ordered again this year 🙏

I hope your wreaths bring you Merry, Magical and Mystery moments this Christmas 🎄

Here's a reminder that my wreath care information is online this year - visit the website and click 'Caring for your Christmas Wreath'.

I just love seeing your wreaths doing their thing so please do continue to send me pictures of yours in action ♡

Here's a few of them posing before they went off to meet their front doors 💫

28/11/2023

Forever Flowers ♡

This Autumn I created a beautiful collection of homegrown dried flower wreaths.

Every flower was lovingly grown, carefully dried and constructed onto a grapevine base to celebrate the glory of the flower patch this Summer.

Designed to be displayed indoors as a wall hanging or to adorn an internal door, these charming wreaths will ensure summer lives on in the home in the most delightful way. They can also be used as a beautiful table centrepiece.

So, here they are! And I'm very pleased to announce they are now for sale on the webshop. With only one of each design available, once they've gone they've gone, so if you would like one as a treat for yourself or for a gift for Christmas please do get in touch 📧

My Forever Flowers are available to buy online for collection from my workshop in Farnborough or please email me to order for local or surrounding area delivery.

They are very VERY lovely. So much so, I am finding it hard to let them go 🤭

Link to Shop in bio!

17/11/2023

Today is the last day to order your Merry, Magical or Mystery Christmas Wreath 🌟

Merry - joyfully colourful, fabulously fragrant and full of festive cheer 🎄

Magical - wonderfully wild and beautifully natural, packed with the most delightful seasonal touches🌲

Mystery - a marvelous mystery... bursting with festive cheer and wild beauty, a glorious mix of the Merry and the Magicical 🎄🌲

Which one will you choose??

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10/11/2023

Remember last year when we were creating winter wreaths in the frost and snow? What a treat that was ❄

Numb hands and feet I recall, but worth it for a touch of white against the festive foliage 🌲

I wonder what backdrop this year will have in store? Perhaps there will still be leaves on the trees 🍂

Anyhoo... if you would like one of my Christmas Wreaths this jolly season please place your order by next Friday 17th November. Who knows if there will be snow, but I can guarantee your front door will be bursting with merry, magic or mystery this Winter ✨

Link to Shop in bio.

08/11/2023

The Merry, the Magical and the Mystery...

I'm delighted to announce this year's Christmas Wreath collection is now live 💫

Visit the online shop on the website for details of each design ✨

Will you choose to have a Merry Christmas, a Magical Christmas or revel in the surprise of a Mystery Christmas?

Order online for collection or if you would like local delivery please place your order by email 📧

I have a limited number of Christmas Wreaths available this year so if you would like one please order yours as soon as possible, by next Friday 17th November. Thank you!

Holidays are coming...

🎄🎄🎄

23/09/2023

"Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go"

I love this quote. I saw it the other day and thought yes! that's so true 🍂

As the flower patch begins to wind down for the year I'm taking this as an opportunity to have a little break myself.

Back in July I put the floristry tools down to concentrate on recovering from an injury to my wrist. Recovery is going really well and I had hoped to use the final burst of blooms in October to offer a beautiful selection of gift flowers one last time before the season came to an end... but this week the flower patch has noticeably slowed and my wrist needs a little more time before the floristry hands are active again.

So, it's time to say farewell to The Entwine Collection 2023 💐 THANK YOU to everybody who ordered my bouquets, bunches or posies this year - I'm incredibly grateful you continue to choose me and my flowers ☺🙏

I'll still be here, embracing the joy of Autumn at the flower patch and pottering around with pretty things in the background, but for now, the day to day floristry remains on hold for a little while longer and the business brain is going to have a little rest too.

British flowers are still going strong so please do continue to visit to find your local growers and suppliers of wonderfully joyful autumnal flowers.

Happy Autumn! 🍁🌾🍃🍄🍂

17/09/2023

Summer with a stroke of Autumn 🌸🍂

The flower patch on it's third anniversary...

September petals basking in every second of sunshine, soaking up every moment of warmth.

It's been a challenging growing season this year, but what grows blooms and what blooms can be enjoyed, and to me that's the most important thing 🌱

11/09/2023

Rainbow on the bench 🌈

Amaranthus, Achillea, Strawflower and Statice harvested this weekend for drying.

Last Winter all dried flower ingredients featured in my festive arrangements came from the flower patch. One of my aims this year was to grow more flowers for drying in order to produce a larger volume for me to use throughout the Autumn-Winter period. Although a couple of varieties were unsuccessful, the majority were and I'm delighted to be going home with harvests that look like this 😍

I'm not yet sure how I will use my dried flowers this year... but that's what's wonderful - their beauty lives on and there is time ♡

08/09/2023

Unruly beauty...

In the warm, dewy haze this morning I walked over to the allotment.

Mostly with the intention to harvest some veg, but also with a plan to deadhead, a little. Maybe pull a few towering weeds, a little. Perhaps reinstate the paths, a little. Generally regain some order, a little. Not all of these achievable in one go of course, but to make a start, somewhere... with the good(ish) hand.

First, the vegetable patch. I filled the trug with tomatoes, beans, courgettes, cucumbers. Just glorious. Job done ✔

Moving to the flower patch...
I walked up and down, I admired, I thought about where to start, I admired some more, I took a few photos, I filmed the bees, I sat on the bench, I walked around a little more, I admired a little bit more, I couldn't decide what to do first... and then it was getting warm... so I decided today just wasn't the day for those jobs 😆