AESME

AESME London Florist | Wedding & Event Flowers & Online Floristry Classes London Studio & Hampshire Flower Farm.

At AESME we specialise in elegant, sustainable, garden-inspired floral design for weddings and events. We also host an online Flower School for floristry students wishing to learn the design theory and mechanics behind our naturalistic style.

NEW FLOWER FILMA loose and leafy spring hand-tied bouquet using three varieties each of spirea and helleboreLink in bio ...
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! 🎥


‘Plants, Places and People’ is a Sunday letter, thoughtfully written with accompanying photographs. In this week’s mail ...
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


Flower Arranging at Charleston Farmhouse, SussexTuesday 17 June ~ 10am to 4pmJoin us for a day of flowers  We’ll begin w...
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/

The Narcissi didn’t make it into this arrangement (Jess vetoed). But this is how I like them best anyway, grouped, en ma...
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 🐕


NEW FLOWER FILMEnjoy a few moments of calm with this week’s gentle arrangement featuring wild tulip, petticoat daffodil,...
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!



Hermodactylus tuberosussnakeshead iris - black iris - widow irisOne of the first bulbs we planted at the garden, they ha...
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.



Tulipa sylvestristhe wild tulipHailing from the Mediterranean and black sea basins, the wild or woodland tulip has danci...
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?


Happy Mother’s Day MamaVenice Beach, California, sometime in the mid 1970s
30/03/2025

Happy Mother’s Day Mama

Venice Beach, California, sometime in the mid 1970s

Helleborus ‘Molly’s White’
30/03/2025

Helleborus ‘Molly’s White’

A little extract from this Sunday’s newsletter...Hermodactylus tuberosus, the black iris. One of Mum’s favourite flowers...
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.




NEW FLOWER FILMThis week in the studio - waves of bright yellow Forsythia, scented Ribes and velvety widow iris.We hope ...
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.

The recipe for this arrangement is over on the website for those asking the varieties, you can find it at www.aesme.co.u...
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!


STUDIO WORKSHOPSLast spaces for early summer:12th & 13th June or 10th & 11th JulyJoin us for two days of creative flower...
27/03/2025

STUDIO WORKSHOPS

Last spaces for early summer:

12th & 13th June or 10th & 11th July

Join us for two days of creative flower arranging, discussions on growing and working with flowers seasonally and as sustainably as possible, delicious food and a studio full of incredible branches, blooms, weeds and the best of what the garden has to offer. In June and July that’s roses, poppies, foxgloves, campanula, daisies, cornflowers, geranium, sweet peas and many, many more.


Recently in the garden. A few exciting projects underway, the creation of new rooms, new journeys. Removing membrane to ...
23/03/2025

Recently in the garden. A few exciting projects underway, the creation of new rooms, new journeys. Removing membrane to create deeper borders and wavy paths. Moving plants into more distinct zones - a stony, exposed dry garden, an undulating area of part-shade, cottage garden, kitchen garden. The most magical time of the year - seeds germinating, sweet-peas beginning their ascent. Onwards and upwards!


Acer palmatum ‘Katsura’ ~ Japanese maple 🍁
23/03/2025

Acer palmatum ‘Katsura’ ~ Japanese maple 🍁


Once more into the fray. I know that I’m not alone in feeling acutely the swirling energies that the change of season br...
22/03/2025

Once more into the fray. I know that I’m not alone in feeling acutely the swirling energies that the change of season brings, particularly discernible come the spring and autumn equinox. In these weeks my body seems to be on permanent ‘high alert’, perhaps sensing the imminent gear-shift as we approach a new season. I find myself shying away from the news, from the noise of social media, and reaching for protective pockets of quiet time, the comfort of tangible endeavours that are rooted very precisely in the present moment. I have found so often in these moments that the natural world responds when you need it most. Craving space you look up and there is the wideness of the sky.

Snippet from tomorrow’s newsletter, sign up via the link in bio to receive yours on a Sunday morning 💌

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN NO. 1 - COLOURThe biggest lesson we’ve learnt is not to be afraid of colour, or dismissive of certain...
19/03/2025

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN NO. 1 - COLOUR

The biggest lesson we’ve learnt is not to be afraid of colour, or dismissive of certain tones or combinations because of personal preference or prejudice. It is so important to keep looking and playing - colour can surprise you, a shift in one direction or small tweak to a palette can change the whole feeling of an arrangement.

Calling a flower one colour is reductive, because every flower has countless different colours within it and there are so many different tints, tones and shades under the umbrella of a colour’s name. A blue flower, for example, could be anything from slate and peacock to cerulean, periwinkle, indigo, lapis or duck egg, and a great many other iterations in between. Each of these will have a different effect in an arrangement depending on how and where they are used, and the colours they are combined with.

Learn more in our immersive online course exploring all seven elements of floral design, or dip your toe in with a single class both available via the link in our bio.


These photos were taken by the talented Boston-based photographer  He came to spend a couple of days with us in the gard...
18/03/2025

These photos were taken by the talented Boston-based photographer He came to spend a couple of days with us in the garden and studio when touring the UK with his wife, Nancy, and their daughter Genevieve, a ballet dancer. We love these images from that time and the way Brian just ‘got’ what we’re about and the feeling of the garden and studio in the chaotic, beautiful mess of midsummer when filming an online class and prepping for a wedding! Both have a particular atmosphere, a blend of beauty and grit, seriousness and creativity, hard graft and whimsy; we will treasure these always. Thank you Brian!

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About Us

AESME is a Flower Studio in West London, specialising in unusual varieties of

seasonal flowers grown at our Hampshire Farm.

PHILOSOPHY

Growing and arranging flowers is an ancient creative practice.