Amanda Waples' Flowers

02/12/2022

The first Christmas wreath order made, delivered and displayed yesterday! New this year, wonderful green velvet ribbon.

29/11/2022

Hope to see you at one of my Christmas Workshops next week.
(Thursday evening is now full). They are fun and relaxed and you can choose to make a Wreath or Table Decoration. Take a look at the details in the poster and look forward to hearing from you.

Amanda

19/06/2022

English country garden in a vase! A glorious mix of flowers and fitting to mark a 90th birthday.

30/05/2022

Lovely to have wedding flowers with no pandemic restrictions, although the flower consultation last year was via Zoom, so the first face to face meeting with the lovely bride was when delivering the flowers on Saturday!

Not only were the peonies beautiful their scent, along with the freesias, made the bouquet smell divine.

Wishing the bride and groom a long and happy life together. Have fun!

27/03/2022

Happy Mothering Sunday to all! Even if you are not lucky to receive flowers enjoy the beauty of spring around you! A special pray to Titania and Rosie.

16/06/2021

An amazing (trained!) living arch, Albertine rose with a wonderful scent too! No need for a florist's arch at Great Sampford's church in June! And ready made confetti at the base too!

30/07/2020

What better joy than a new born baby?! It was wonderful to deliver these flowers to a delighted first time Mum and Dad today! Notice the flowers made of scratch mitts, socks and face cloths that I've tucked amongst the gorgeous seasonal flowers and foliage.

11/05/2020

Simplicity to see the beauty of the flowers is often the best! A willow heart, thank you Michelle Wisbey for the willow supply, and wonderful lily of the valley picked from the garden. A Happy 70th Birthday to a friend whose favourite flower is lily of the valley. The scent was amazing too!

30/04/2020

29/04/2020

Such a lovely idea by a loving husband whose wife spent her last 5 weeks in a hospice. A week on and the funeral flowers I did will have been enjoyed by the wonderful staff at the Arthur Rank hospice, Addenbrookes rather than left at the crematorium.

I covered the stems of the 3 hand ties, with hessian bags I had made and secured with a wire edged floral ribbon, masking the moist wadding and plastic bag I had put over the stems to keep the flowers as fresh as possible.

The 3 hand ties overlapping and lying in a line produced a long beautiful tribute. After the service they were easily transported, the scent filling the car, and given as thank you bouquets to the hospice staff.

27/04/2020

One of the positive outcomes of this lockdown period is the time it gives us for creativity and to really appreciate the emergence of beautiful spring flowers in the garden.

1. My inspiration! 2 air bricks unearthed while gardening the other day!

2. I stuck felt on the base of the cleaned up brick to protect furniture, inserted floral tubes in each hole and filled them with water using a plastic dispensing bottle (alternatively use a gravy basting pipette or watering can).

3. The finished design using stems of conditioned spring flowers and foliage picked from the garden.

As simple as that and no floral foam! Includes: Hellebores, acid green Euphorbia, Anemone, Brunnera macrophylla, Exochorda macrantha, contorted hazel, Sarcoccoca.

18/03/2020

Last orders for Mothers' Day by 10am today, I'm buying the flowers this morning! Last mail order flowers being sent by 10am tomorrow for Friday delivery so Mothers enjoy a weekend of flowers.

Stay safe and well during this weird time ###

23/02/2020

Challenge accepted and loved by the recipients! Using the Diamond Anniversary Couple's wooden sculpture, (taken by their daughter on pretence for her son's tech project!), an all around design interwoven through and around the sculpture using some wonderful plant material including red twisted willow and the newly available cut flower, Kalanchoe diamond champagne! Have you spotted the 'diamonds'? Congratulations to the happy couple, 60 years, amazing!

08/12/2019

Still a few spaces available on my Christmas Flower workshops! ☃️🎄

Very relaxed environment, suitable for all levels and a perfect chance to make your Christmas wreath/table design! ❄

Text, call or email to book a spot for you (and your friends!) or ask any questions⚘

07989 797870
[email protected]

27/10/2019

Photos, just before delivery, of yesterday's buttonholes, bouquets, including a mini one, and floral hairband for 4 year old Penny, a very excited niece and bridesmaid! Ella Waples do you recognise your hair styling doll's head, she was a great model?!

26/10/2019

Enjoying a burst of colour and fun in a mini kilner jar! The off cuts from the wonderful autumnal wedding flowers I've just completed with Deborah Boraster. Photos of today's wedding as well as my Spring and Summer weddings to follow and before my last wedding of the season on 30th December and of course my Christmas Workshops and the normal busy festive season!

26/05/2019

Now recovering from the stress of spending 2 weeks tending these amazing peonies to be perfect for wedding flowers yesterday! They smell devine too! Thank you so much Boraster and Jane for all your help and support.