AESME

23/04/2025

Fragrant branches and leaves from the kitchen garden - rosemary, cardoon and flowering currant

22/04/2025

BOUQUETS

This course is solely dedicated to the creation of beautiful hand-tied bouquets. Filmed demonstrations show each stage in the process of composing bouquets in a range of styles, from romantic and maximalist to contemporary and classic.

In these clear, easy-to-follow films we guide you through the selection of materials, preparing and conditioning the stems, creating the designs step by step, from outlining the shape to grouping flowers, editing, tying off and styling the ribbon.

Whether you’re making bouquets for brides or as gift tokens, through this course you will be able to confidently and skilfully curate bouquets that are well-structured, graceful and full of movement. Each bouquet can be purchased separately or as part of the full course. Suitable for home arrangers, event designers, wedding florists.

*Full course includes a bonus ‘minimalist’ bouquet (pictured) and recipe!*

Lifetime access. Read, watch and repeat. Learn at your own pace.

19/04/2025

In tomorrow’s newsletter - preparing the studio for a new season of flowers.

You can join the mailing list for your Sunday flower fix (it’s free!) via the link in our bio.

19/04/2025

18/04/2025

New Flower Film featuring chocolate vine, peppermint stick tulips and Warley’s epimedium.

Link to watch in our bio! Happy Easter 🐣

18/04/2025

Yellow and grey - many links to be found in this little jar of flowers, freshly picked from the garden. Smudgey streaks of grey to the backs of the wild tulips, grey-green leaves to the fritillaries, the uva vulpis are tipped with mustard yellow. All in the details.

11/04/2025

NEW FLOWER FILM

A loose and leafy spring hand-tied bouquet using three varieties each of spirea and hellebore

Link in bio to watch! 🎥

11/04/2025

‘Plants, Places and People’ is a Sunday letter, thoughtfully written with accompanying photographs. In this week’s mail - thoughts on the ‘hand-vase’ bouquet...

We’re very excited to be releasing a new online course dedicated to the creation of the ‘small bunch of arranged flowers’. It’ll be out next week and we can’t wait to share it with you.

If you’d like to join the mailing list you can via the link in our bio

https://www.aesme.co.uk/studio-newsletter

09/04/2025

Flower Arranging at Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex
Tuesday 17 June ~ 10am to 4pm

Join us for a day of flowers

We’ll begin with a tour of the house and gardens, inviting you to draw inspiration from the beautiful surroundings and painterly interiors.

Using garden-grown flowers we will give a demo and talk on how to go about creating a beautiful, naturalistic vase arrangement and then invite you to craft your own arrangement using organically-grown flowers from our cutting garden in Hampshire with guidance and friendly feedback on your work. A delicious lunch will be provided - please bring your favourite vase and a pair of snips!

Look forward to seeing you there!

Tickets are available from the Charleston website.

https://www.charleston.org.uk/event/arranging-garden-flowers/

09/04/2025

The Narcissi didn’t make it into this arrangement (Jess vetoed). But this is how I like them best anyway, grouped, en masse, in a simple jar or vase - earthenware, stoneware, something with an earthy glaze. The brick-shaped profile in the foreground is our Irish terrier Mavis, who is forever photo-bombing and has her own emoji 🐕

03/04/2025

NEW FLOWER FILM

Enjoy a few moments of calm with this week’s gentle arrangement featuring wild tulip, petticoat daffodil, cowslip and primrose.

The full list of ingredients can be found over on the website - Seasonal Recipes / Spring.

Link in bio / Stories for the film!

02/04/2025

Hermodactylus tuberosus
snakeshead iris - black iris - widow iris

One of the first bulbs we planted at the garden, they have happily naturalised beneath a large rambling rose. The standards are lime and pearlescent, the falls a velvety chocolate brown. Another impossibly exquisite entity of the botanical world.

01/04/2025

Tulipa sylvestris
the wild tulip

Hailing from the Mediterranean and black sea basins, the wild or woodland tulip has dancing stems that seem to have a life of their own and bring a sense of spirit to any arrangement. I love the way the pointed petals yawn open in the sun, close again in shade or twilight and have a sweet citrus scent, like lemony honey.

Looking for tulip inspiration for next year - what are your favourites?

30/03/2025

Happy Mother’s Day Mama

Venice Beach, California, sometime in the mid 1970s

30/03/2025

Helleborus ‘Molly’s White’

29/03/2025

A little extract from this Sunday’s newsletter...

Hermodactylus tuberosus, the black iris. One of Mum’s favourite flowers. She likes her flowers smoky and complex - hellebores, chocolate flake sweet peas. She likes colours that defy definition unless you ally them with something else - pistachio green, mustard, parma grey, cinnamon, smudged charcoal.

She’s a singular person, our mother. Full of contradictions, as perhaps any interesting person is. There is nothing loud or obvious about her. She is subtle, gentle. Very patient, very calm. Swears like a trooper which is somehow surprising given how slight and quiet she is. A Londoner through and through; she loves this city. What else does she love? Foreign films, white walls, cafe culture, cats, Nancy Mitford, mid-century furniture, Japan, woods, cities, Edward Ardizzone, chocolate buttons.

My latest letter will be winging its way through the ether to email subscribers on Sunday morning. You can join them via the link in our bio.

28/03/2025

NEW FLOWER FILM

This week in the studio - waves of bright yellow Forsythia, scented Ribes and velvety widow iris.

We hope you enjoy it. The link can be found in our bio.

28/03/2025

The recipe for this arrangement is over on the website for those asking the varieties, you can find it at www.aesme.co.uk then under Seasonal Recipes (Spring).

This is a new feature we added to the site at the beginning of the year. It’s free to use and we add to it every week. If you’re in need of technical tips, inspiration for an arrangement shape or colour palette, or ideas on what to grow for cutting, you’ll find plenty there to browse through already; in time we hope to amass an extensive library of different designs of all sizes and shapes through the seasons. There’s a search feature too, if you have a particular ingredient you’d like to find. We hope you enjoy exploring!