Botanika

We are a Sussex based flower company specialising in custom floral arrangements for weddings, special occasions and styling projects.
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Floral Design, Styling, Events and Weddings in the South East of England

04/07/2024

Sweetpea Kings Ransom - what a beautiful sweetpea. Huge long stems, the most beautiful shade of dusty rose. No scent though, but hey you can’t have everything! The gardens are open at Perch Hill garden for two days now and there are still a few garden tickets available for Friday but must book before your visit. The gardens are looking beautiful as ever and if you’d like to see all those gorgeous plants and seeds available in the catalogue doing their thing in the garden, go and visit now it’s all go, plenty of container plant combinations and planting inspiration to get for next year ⚡️⚡️⚡️

24/06/2024

It’s that time of year when poppies are popping up everywhere. These tall annual o***m poppies were so tall and got battered by the wind laying flat on the ground they had to be pulled out - I stuck them in some large pickle jars as even though their flowers are short lived, the petals are so beautiful and the foliage is glossy silver, didn’t have the heart to put them on the compost.. will check tomorrow to see how they survived the week..

20/06/2024

Roses and the structure underneath that makes them bloom so much more abundantly - scroll through the summer/winter rose garden with rose domes, teepees that makes for beautiful winter structures that completely disappear underneath all that growth in summer!

20/06/2024

This table is home to the soft pale palette - always a favourite with visitors. Another example on how to match your flowers with your vases and candles and keep within that palette, proved to be so much more effective and easier to pick to restricted colours when you’re spoiled for choice in June 😁 A selection of vases at different heights creates a lovely dynamic tablescape 👌🏻 so beautiful but notoriously difficult to photograph set against that big window..

20/06/2024

Love this colour combo for table flowers in bud vases. Cosmos, sweetpeas, cornflowers, linaria, and the best for the relaxed dangly bits Echium, a low growing bedding variety. Naturally match vase colour to flower palette of course 👌🏻 and you’re done

05/06/2024

Feast your eyes on these insanely beautiful lupins from Perch Hill yesterday

22/05/2024

Llamas or alpacas? These images always make me smile. Especially image no3 😁 and why wouldn’t you want a camel type animal for your wedding party? 🦙🦙🦙 Images from a wedding last summer.

26/04/2024

Flowers for Press Day at Perch Hill this week - one advantage of this cold spring is that the tulips have been going for weeks and fingers crossed lots still to pick next week for the first open days of the season and the gardening team the gardens as always looking immaculate 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

12/04/2024

This little Muscari Valerie Finnis flowers and marks the proper start of spring for me around my son’s birthday. They somehow find their way into arrangements here and there as they are excellent scented cut flowers or shall I call them pulled stems instead - instead of cutting if you pull the stems carefully but firmly away from their bulb when picking, the stem length is actually decent size and long enough for small bouquets and all sorts of smaller flower decorations like buttonholes, flower crowns or bud vases. I just finished a small bridal order using these and other local spring flowers and foliages from my small plot this time - I often worry if I have enough choice without sourcing from elsewhere but even so I managed to pick 15 different ingredients for this order from my very small plot and garden. It doesn’t get much more sustainable and seasonal than using what’s available locally 🪻🪻🪻photo credits

08/04/2024

Spring woodland wedding vibes at the with lots of tulips and tons of fresh foliages, tapered candles 💚 with are always the best 💚Images by Lindsay Goddard Photography

27/03/2024

Because wedding bouquets in a row always look amazing with stunning brides and bridesmaids 😊✨✨✨ photography

26/03/2024

I always do a little walking down the aisle demo before handing over the bouquet to my brides - a little suggestion about how and where to hold the flowers as they tend to have a back and a front and Aneka here completely rocked it 💫 photos by thank you X

22/03/2024

Party tables in a long barn style set up where we used tons of eucalyptus loosely laid along the centre of the tables to create a scented foliage runner that is also easy to place sharing plates on or move if need to for glasses, bottles etc. a quick, practical, cost effective way of making an impact and create a tablescape that lasts fantastically out of water for days - which after the party was bunched and given away to guests to take home and enjoy, as when naturally dried in a vase eucalyptus will keep its colour and form for years 💙 you might say eucalyptus isn’t native to the UK but its incredibly adaptable with its hundreds of varieties there is one for every corner of the earth - its grown in the UK for cutting and plenty of hardy varieties to choose from. When the eucalyptus gets cut back and allowed to regrow from early summer to autumn the plants get a rest before the cutting season starts again. Photography by thank you X

19/03/2024

Details 🤎 isn’t it wonderful when the small but all important wedding details are captured by wonderful photographers like scroll for some beautiful bridal henna art, this one is also for my brilliant cousin 🧡 the best professional henna artist in Budapest X

19/03/2024

Some lovely moody images from this recent late summer wedding. Photographs by

18/03/2024

Bridal bouquets in single colours - this was so much fun to pick flowers for 💛🩷💜🧡🤍photography

17/03/2024

Beautiful Beth with her rainbow coloured summer bridal bouquet - all the single colours were replicated in her bridesmaids bouquets 💜🤍❤️🩷💛

16/03/2024

So nice to see and pick a few blooms amongst all the foliages at my local flower farm. The stem length of the anemones and the texture of the Iceland poppies from the polytunnel are insane ✨ Daphne for scent and flowering rosemary for remembrance assembled for sympathy flowers 🩵

11/12/2023

Much needed florist outing with to see the Winter Flowers at the with so much scented winter blossom and floral beauty. For me stole the show with their dreamy set ✨💛

07/12/2023

The annual festive porch at one of my favourite gardens is now decorated - this year we kept it very natural using only abundant hedgerow pickings aka mostly holly as it’s so rich in berries this year. Wreath made with less prickly stems of yew, cypress, hazel catkins, on willow wreath base all from the fields, later fully compostable. Hopefully the birds leave enough berries on there in the next few weeks 🤞🏻

05/12/2023

Garden gathered large wreath with pittosporum, elaeagnus, yew, rosemary, ivy and holly on a willow wreath base fixed with just natural twine - we now do without moss and wire entirely, completely compostable, though will probably keep the willow wreath base for more wreathing next year ☝🏻 What’s not to like? 😊

16/09/2023

Can’t beat a wonderful view of locally grown, freshly picked seasonal flowers on a September morning 🥰

28/08/2023

Wonderful succulents at Chelsea gold winner nursery at in Penzance many of their own varieties of Aeoniums in the most fantastic dark maroon chocolate colours. The gardens are looking superb at Tremenheere so lush and subtropical and established amazing growth since their planting and opening 10 years ago

17/08/2023

The gardens are looking their most fabulous at Perch Hill now with all the dahlias and half hardy annuals at their best. and her fantastic team are doing a grand job at keeping the magic going it’s really one of the best time of year to visit and not too bad picking and arranging from the most fantastic selection of cut flowers either 😊 this week bouquets from the cutting garden also available in the shop if you’d like to take a little bit of the garden home with you.

12/08/2023

What a delight talking to Cuckfield Flower Club about sustainable floristry techniques and British flowers last night. Such a welcoming and interested group who are keen on ditching floral foam and finding out about local flower growers. These ladies lived through ages before plastic and oasis was even invented and remember all the foam free floral mechanics used in the olden days now being reintroduced. and flower farming has been transforming the scene of local cut flower availability in the past 10-15 years and without it we wouldn’t be spoiled for choice as we are today. How else could I pick cut flower grade corn cockles or chocolate nicotiana right on my doorstep? There are many excellent growers like in Sussex just to name a few near me and please mention in comments below any other you know as the list is growing. For the pinnacle of sustainable floristry visit the floral exhibits at flower festival in September to see all the beauty put on display by growers and florists of cut flowers curated by the legends .chappell.flowers and this flower festival is in its 5th year and I was lucky to be part of the very first exhibit they curated.

30/07/2023

Hello from Copenhagen where I’m having my birthday weekend ✨✨✨Good job I love danish pastries and pickled herring both my favourite things 😁 Today we will be hopping over to Malmö in Sweden and admire the infamous 16km bridge over the water on our way. I can’t wait I have always wanted to visit 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

12/07/2023

Pitfield Barn Flowers is my very local flower farm where I source most of my cut flowers for wedding work and also have been working with Emma and Peter for a few years now putting my horticultural and cut flower growing background to good use - the fields are looking particularly lovely at the moment with several beautiful new and old varieties of cut flowers despite all the weather related difficulties growers have been battling with. cafe is open Thursday-Saturday with very good coffee and cake made by Scotty so if you’re local to this part of Sussex come and check it out. There are several events, design and craft workshops available and I’m looking forward to meeting some of you this Friday on a joint bouquet making and Pilates morning with Becky from the gardens are also open for NGS at the end of the month where Emma will take visitors on tours around the extensive flower fields.

27/06/2023

every week garden, used lots of roses and sweetpeas in this week’s arrangements ✨✨✨

27/05/2023

A large vase full of Abraham Darby about to open 🩷

26/04/2023

🌸Announcement 🌸 Pilates and bouquet making class on the 14th July. A wonderful morning of fitness and creativity combined. Join us for a few hours of bliss in the summer flower fields starting with a grounding Pilates session with followed by a bouquet making class with me. We will be using all the beautiful seasonal flowers from the flower farm. Delicious food by please book through Becky more details on class and booking can be found on her website 🌸

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August urn and flowers for open days this week at @sarahravensgarden Perch Hill. Still hanging onto the summer vibes, save the hips and berries for next month 😅 #realflowersoftheseason #summerlight #gardeninspiredfloristry #gardengathered #sussexflorist #dahlias #zinnia #hydrangeaseason #amaranthus

Lush plumes, sunshine and gentle breeze in the Italian gardens at @wotton_house_hotel for Atlanta and Daniel’s wedding yesterday🌾

Beautiful martagon lilies at Borde Hill garden today. For roses lovers I will post some more in stories

Canterbury bells to complement the location of today’s wedding with a lovely refreshing colour scheme 💜💛💚

So beautiful and so wonky. I don’t think they would look as good if they had straight stems though.. Fritillaria persica I love them. Unexpected treasures from my allotment 😊

Just sat down to enjoy the scent of these multiflora hyacinths and excitement over the fritillaries almost there with their flowers - almost makes up for the less glamorous digging that’s going on in the background on a very large raised bed for my dried flower collection. A lot of building and tidying this time of year before all the seedlings are ready to plant out 🌱