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Forager, Flower Farmer, Florist, Freelancer. Growing and gathering with the seasons. Dried flowers throughout the year. Enquiries of all types welcome!
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06/11/2024

Join me in Ludlow for a relaxed festive wreath making workshop : A couple of hours of creativity with a group of like-minded individuals.
A break for you from the busy pre-Christmas hustle.
You’ll take home a gorgeous artisan wreath made just how you like it ; full of evergreens, dried elements, pine cones and berries - ready to take pride of place on your door. Hang it straight up and just like the song says : Step into Christmas !

When:
Saturday 7th Dec 3 till 5.30 ish
Sunday 8th Dec 10 till 12.30 ish

Where: The Mascall Centre, Ludlow - free parking on site.

Cost: £50 pp

How to book : Drop me a lovely email and I will reserve your space.

More than half of the availability for Saturday has already been pre-reserved by returning customers, Sunday is now open for booking

[email protected]

31/10/2024

Hello all, 👋

A reminder about market day - this Saturday 2nd at the lovely Ludlow Market in town centre.

All my dried bouquets and bunches ready arranged for your jugs and vases,
Masses of little hanging hearts,
Wreaths - perfect for a plain wall.

Long lasting colour for your home throughout the darker days of winter
Simple, natural dried flowers and grasses together with preserved foliages to encourage you to either nest or hibernate…

Market opens from 9am on Saturday and the best almond croissant in the world will be available too - just a few stalls away from mine!

29/10/2024

This Saturday I will be trading at Ludlow Market, in the town centre.
The first outing this year for Ludlow grown dried flower wreaths, bunches, hazel hearts and little posies.
Perfectly timed for you to settle in for a cosy winter at home - these handmade wreaths and bunches will see you through to Christmas and beyond, adding maintenance-free colour and seasonality to your home.

Of course they make wonderful, original gifts too, something unique, natural and with local provenance.

I Look forward to seeing old friends and new customers on Saturday - browsing is positively encouraged, and a chat is always welcome.
Kim x

Ludlow Market

29/10/2024

Here’s the last trio of munchkins with dried flowers, now hoping to find their home.

There’s the bonus of a fourth munchkin ( lingering in the background, kicking the table, pretending it doesn’t care whether or not it has a home for Halloween )

I made these on Saturday as part of the demo for my workshop, and now they wish to fly the nest.
The trio - with the bonus mini munchkin with attitude - is £20.

The moment these little beauts leave the premises we will turn allll Christmassy in our themes, here.
With the exception of a few reminders about my winter market day on this coming Saturday, where it’s all about seasonal, naturally dried flowers in the form of bunches, wreaths, hazel hearts…
Ludlow Market 🍁Sat Nov 2nd 🍁9.30 till 3

[email protected] for 🎃🎃🎃

22/10/2024

A wee reminder for final orders for your Halloween pumpkins please - for collection this Friday 25th or early next week in readiness for a tastefully spooky night on the 31st.

Not a tacky plastic spider, bat, or even a severed arm involved - just colourful dried flowers and grasses.

Perfect for your windowsill or kitchen table and long lasting - the flowers are arranged atop the munchkin and can be removed later - then ( oh joy…) you can enjoy a delicious vegan home-cooked pumpkin dish or compost the fruit and put it out of its misery.
Your call!

A trio of munchkins £20
A larger pumpkin £25

[email protected] to reserve yours x 👻 x

This weekend it’s my workshop at The Clive - making gorgeous hazel hearts decorated with dried flowers, then little pumpkins in the afternoon.
It’s fully booked - but there will be another in mid November if you fancy it?

I’ll need 12 lovely attendees to make it viable and we will create two projects - winter hearts ready for Christmas and big hanging pine cones decorated with grasses, berries and dried foliages.
You know the score - drop me an email to register your interest 🤗
Thanks all : Kim x

19/10/2024

Christmas workshop prototype today - planning for the hazel heart workshop on the afternoon of Sunday December the 15th.

Here’s the plan : Take a couple of hours off, leave the sellotape and rolls of wrap, let someone else do the washing up and join me for a little escape into Christmas creativity.

Something a little different from the wreath workshops on the 7th and 8th; in this session we will be making a heart frame with fresh hazel, decorating it with all the winter goodies like these.

Can I tell you right now - that whilst I was making this prototype - the sap from the fir smells so wonderful, it’s so evocative of that old fashioned Christmas tree fragrance from your childhood - before they all turned non- drop…

We make the heart from scratch, then add all the festive foliages.
There will be time to make a nice big heart for your front door and a little matching one for your garden gate or for a gift.

I think mince pies and mulled wine would be the appropriate accompaniments to this relaxed afternoon and I will take a vote on Michael Buble.
Your call!

This session is £50 and will take place at The Clive, right in amongst the hubbub of Ludlow food centre, gift shop, the gin distillery and cafe. Lots of free parking and nice and easy to reach.

The Clive makes a wonderful man-crèche if you can talk someone into driving you over!

To initially reserve, drop an email over ( [email protected])

I will then send out full details and ask you to confirm your spot with payment - because late cancelled places are really difficult to fill.
Thanks all 💋

18/10/2024

I’ve a last place left for my workshop next Saturday ( at The Clive)
All the details on my previous post, scroll back a couple to see the full post ( or ask me )

It’s a 10.30 to 3-4pm full day of relaxed flowery creativity, and you’ll take home hearts and munchkins to decorate your home with cozy autumnal decorations.
Dried flowers, hazel hearts, mini pumpkins and a day to yourself….
£65
Love to see you there!
Kim 😉🍂🍂

18/10/2024

This big handmade autumn wreath is off to Ludlow Assembly Rooms for their fundraising auction next week - one of many lots from local supporters.
Holidays, hampers, beauty treatments… all sorts of treats and gifts are open to bids.

The Auction of promises is at 6.30 on the 27th.

If you’d like to bid for my wreath or support the Assemby Rooms, check out all the details about the auction on the Ludlow Assembly Rooms website
The events page - you can download the catalogue from there too.

Sorry, I’m not able to answer questions about the auction, just wanted to share these pics and remind you about the event.

17/10/2024

Oh, I do love the moody light achieved with messing around with “vignette” on my iPhone!

Anyway, this post is to mention that I’ve moved into 100% dried flower mode for the winter.

We’ve had a frost or two and nothing but wet weather for a couple of weeks, and that’s the end of good quality cut flowers until next year.

I’m going to promote the unexpected pleasure of combining dried materials with fresh foliage shortly - perfect for a fat jam jar during the winter months - I’ve wrapped jars in the most incredible papers with a mid-century, print-makers feel from Cambridge Imprints and finished them with with wooden buttons.

No. Not twee, I will show you them later and you can judge for yourself!

Today, after a close shave with the river Teme last night ( can you please stay on your own side of the bed? )
I’m cosying up with my mighty harvest of foraged and grown dried materials.

Got some unexpectedly good things tucked away in boxes for your autumn and winter wreaths : Grasses that smell like a summer meadow, Peonies that dried like crepe paper flowers, Eucalyptus preserved to a dark silver and all the paper daisies in a full rainbow of colours ( well, except blue - but I’ve got larkspurs for the blue).

These pics show the kind of small bunches that I’m putting together at present.
Hand tied to go directly into a vase and wrapped in brown paper for a gift.

Pinks and neutrals today, blues and greens yesterday and many more colour ways to explore.

You know how to contact me when you need a bunch or a wreath, I’m hoping to bring piles to Ludlow Market soon - but oh, this weather!

[email protected]

15/10/2024

These little dried bouquets 🤍 aren’t they cute? - not the usual fluffy pink stuff, either…

Ideal for people who don’t think they like dried flowers!

Filled with natural flowers and seedheads, with grasses and preserved bracken.

These make a lovely gift.

October days here are filled with putting these together for winter, now that my cut flowers are done for the year after those frosts.
Perfect to pop into a vase or jug for a little cosy home accessory, and wonderful to received through the post as a gift.
Lots of colourways to be prepared here, but these stood out to me - clean and simple and autumnal.

Dare I suggest that a bloke might even allow one of these into his home without cringing?

13/10/2024

This week’s workshop highlights:
Most of these are available and ready to go….

Full sized pumpkins, mini munchkins, giant pine cones… All decorated with locally grown and dried flowers, foraged grasses and preserved foliages for autumn - and some particularly with Halloween in mind.

A big fat pumpkin with a crown of dried flowers costs £25
A trio of mini munchkins £20
A trio of hanging giant cones on chunky twine £20
A large dried flower wreath £60
A hanging hazel heart £20

Wreaths, of course are my speciality - and fresh or dried, I’m making those daily to order, and always keep a couple of dried wreaths and hearts available for instant gratification for you should your home need a little warm and cosy autumnal uplift!

I’m creating a stock of all these for Ludlow Market shortly - but ohhh - the weather!!
A dry, still day is what I’m waiting for - damp and wind play havoc with dried flowers out on the market square!
Will update you with the help of BBC weather - but do drop me a line for any requests this week.
Much appreciated, Kim x

PS : about the pumpkins - I don’t hollow out the fruit, it’s complete, so you won’t have to contend with a softening and “fragrant” mess ! These will last very well, right into November.

A careful soul could save the arrangement for next year, a less careful soul could snip the flowers off and pop them into a little vase.

Orders : [email protected]

07/10/2024

Decision made:
This is my chosen workshop wreath design for December 2024.

A crescent moon design on a ring of local hazel or birch - or both.
I wanted to bring to you a project in ‘24 that has more to it than evergreens and pine cones - something unique that will really stand out on your door.

So this year’s workshop will be all about adding natural elements to bring colour and texture galore to your festive wreath.
Wild and twiggy or neat and sleek - your call!

There will be adaptions for a wreath protected by a porch, one to hang indoors to naturally dry, or a wreath that will withstand the howling Shropshire winds and rain in an exposed spot.

Lots more detail yet to come, but this is a heads-up to let you know the proposed dates:

Sat Dec 7th and Sunday Dec 8th

You can drop a 🎅🏻🎄or a ❤️ below if this appeals and you’d like early dibs on a spot - just to help me gauge interest.
Other creatively curated emojis are also welcome.

Thanks all!
Kim x

30/09/2024

Join me for an autumn workshop!
Saturday October 26th. All welcome!

Focussed on working with dried flowers and with a seasonal theme.

🍂We start at 10.30 - forming heart frames from cut hazel, and I will run through different adaptions large and small - before you make a few for yourself - including spares to take home.

🍂We’ll then decorate one or two with dried flowers, and I will demonstrate a festive version to inspire you to try a heart rather than a wreath for yourself door this year.

🍂After a lunch break we will have a fun session, each decorating a couple of mini pumpkins - perfect little table decorations for your Halloween table.
These last for weeks with no hideous pong of rotting carved pumpkin flesh!

🍂Both make lovely, unique gifts, and once you’ve mastered the techniques they are super to make for any fund-raisers and charity markets too - where handmade and original decorations are always popular.

🍂We will be at the Clive, a lovely smart venue, a couple of miles out of Ludlow and slap-bang next to Ludlow Farm Shop, Cafe, gift shop and more. Plenty of free parking and a choice of places to pick up a snack at lunchtime.

I will bring all the materials you need ; my own grown and foraged flowers and grasses and I promise to keep you hydrated through the day 😉.

The cost for the day is £65.
Best way to book is to drop me an email :

[email protected]

Kim x

23/09/2024

Favourite wreath time -
Apparently we aren’t allowed a favourite child or dog- but it’s ok to have a favourite wreath.
Here’s mine !
Dried flowers and lots of wild grasses and seed heads for good measure.
A soul-soothing neutral palette for the insomniacs and those in need of restful eye-candy.
This one is ready to go, do let me know if it’s destined for your wall…

09/09/2024

A little autumn wreath tutorial.

You can see it in full on my Instagram page with little film bits, but here are the 13 individual images, with the method to follow, to perhaps inspire your first autumn forage and make session.

There are no flowers in these seasonal wreaths, because they are designed to give you the longest possible enjoyment, and in a covered porch that means weeks and weeks of colour and texture to look at everytime you arrive home.
As time goes by the colours mellow - but my favourite ingredients will remain solid with minimal drop as they mature.
I call these magical ingredients “fresh-to-dry” : Oak, Beech, Bracken, Box, Redwoods and Cedars all go into the wreath green and fresh cut, but dry out so well in situ. Greens become bronzes and coppers ( and yes, browns…).

Berries dry wonderfully too - look for Rowan, it’s incredible this year, dripping with orange berries. Blackberries ( immature sprays, not the ripe ones!) are also excellent dried and later haws and rosehips…

I hope you’re as ready as me to embrace autumn!

If you like the idea of a wreath without the making bit, look out for my newly available fresh autumn wreaths and dried indoor wreaths over the next few days - maybe to inspire you to reserve one for collection next weekend?

You’ll see them first on my stories up at the top of your feed, for the 24 hrs before they are posted here, and anything that tempts you can be reserved with a message or a lovely, nicely worded, poetic e-mail will always hit the spot! ( [email protected])
There are a couple ready right now!

Ciao for now ~
Kim x

30/08/2024

About current availability:
I’ve a lovely pile of orders underway being prepared for the weekend and just after - thanks for those!

As I make new wreaths, bouquets and hearts available for sale they are featured on my “stories” (up on the top of your feed - if you’ve not discovered this whole time-sapping black hole yet) on both Facebook and Instagram.

Most never make it on to my page feed simply because they are reserved so quickly by a loyal band of story readers who spot them during the 24 hours they are first featured!

The 10 pics I’ve featured here are just such - only the first two wreaths are available for immediate pick-up,
everything else has been spotted and reserved so quickly that I don’t have chance to advertise them more widely here.

So, a quick reminder - have a look on stories if you think dried flowers are fab ( me too! - love ‘em) and would like something without the obligation of commissioning an order.

By the end of today there will be at least two new hearts and by the end of tomorrow another wreath or two and ready-for-vase bouquet available.

Hope you have fun checking them out!
Kim 😉

28/08/2024

Another dried-flower wedding just booked in for mid September, and my client was inspired by these summery colours in the bouquets that were designed for Ruth and George a couple of weeks back.

So fresh and vibrant that they really don’t look dried.

I grow the flowers here in my cutting patch and add all the interesting foraged grasses and seedheads that I hunt out around the local lanes and fields.
All are air-dried before being assembled into these full, colourful tied bouquets and buttonholes.

The new commission will include purples, lilac and lavender amongst the summery tones and soft greens, there will be decorated tennis rackets too.
A Wimbledon engagement!
Can’t wait to show you the bouquets and rackets when they’re completed, after the wedding.

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This light and textural bucket of garden goodies will become a wedding bouquet on Thursday, when the team from @coachingbyzebra visit for a photo shoot. We’ll be making all sorts of flowery things together, just for fun. Coffee, flowers, exchanging ideas and talking about 2023, leading to a refresh for me, following a new very foragey ( made up word alert )path. Lots to discuss!

Easter wreath - made just now for a customer. This one will last for several years if carefully packed away, or why not keep it up all year-round and add flowers, foliage and dried grasses as you find them? A seasonal nature display on your door! Made on my hand-woven birch base with local willow, cones, feathers, moss, and twigs. Bespoke designs for your own door, drop me a note for yours - I make a little one for £20 and other sizes up to a large one like this at £35 TO ORDER : Kim@ theludlowflowerfarmer.co.uk

Almost special enough to be a bridal bouquet?

The sun has been kind this weekend, showing everything off to its very best. This gathering - with some roses and alstroemerias that I didn’t grow myself, (but wish I could have…) was put together for a client. As I looked at it, I thought 😊 that it would actually make a gorgeous bridal bouquet, with that glorious cherry blossom and all those sprigs of spring greenery. Just imagine a late spring wedding - and the bride carrying this. Yep. It works for me!