Pip Bensley Flowers

Name: Pip Bensley Flowers
Address: Upper Shirley, Southampton, SO155NY, GB
Telephone: +447496829660
Rating: 4.6

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Order online at www.pipbensley.com We love scented flowers and use many locally grown flowers
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01/08/2024

We took flowers to a special lady celebrating an incredible 54 years at the Beeb this week.

01/08/2024

We did pretty summer flowers this week to enhance the beautiful silver Presidents Bowl at the New Forest and Hampshire County Show.
Did you visit the show? What was your favourite part?

27/07/2024

Calling the lovely lady who had a Constance Spry for sale in Wales. I am heading your way on Tuesday but can't find your details

27/07/2024

Lots of lovely stuff here today at Colbury Memorial Hall in Ashurst. Join us from 11am to 1.30pm.

26/07/2024

Wow, look what Mark Pampling Floral Designer has done with this stunning classic Wedgwood Ravenstone mantle vase he bought from me at the Interflora World Cup last year!!

Thinking more ‘classically’ for an example in Design Solutions with Flower Thinking in a vintage Wedgwood vase (I couldn’t resist this vessel in the selection from Pip Bensley Flowers!!) Roses and Leucadendron in an 'arrangement’.

26/07/2024

Last chance to buy tickets for tomorrow's Flower Arrangers Sale!! https://www.pipbensley.com/flowers/sale2024buyer available until 10pm tonight. After that they will be £6 on the door.
Select the ticket then click on the basket icon on the top right of the page to take you to the checkout.
See you tomorrow!

Saturday 27th July 2024 at Colbury Memorial Hall, Main Road, Colbury, Near Southampton, SO40 7EL Come along to everyone’s favourite sale and snap up a bargain. Demonstrators, flower clubs and individuals bring along all their spare flower arranging items and you can snap up some fantastic bargains...

25/07/2024

Delivering flowers is such a lovely job. You see people at the high points of their lives and also when they need cheering up the most. Today’s included a touch of theatre glamour!

23/07/2024

We have a lovely collection of vintage glass chemistry flasks at the moment £3 each or 5 for £10.

23/07/2024

FLOWER ARRANGERS SALE
Join us this Saturday between 11am and 1.30pm at Colbury Memorial Hall SO40 7EL and find fabulous flower arranging and floristry bargains. There is likely to be some craft related items too.
Entry includes coffee/tea and cake! Tickets are £3.50 in advance at https://www.pipbensley.com/flowers/sale2024buyer or £6 on the door on Saturday.
See you there!

22/07/2024

THIS SATURDAY!! Flower Arrangers Sale at Colbury Memorial Hall. Find great bargains and fun new items for your flower arranging from our stallholders who are demonstrators, teachers, competitors and club members. Tickets are £3.50 and include a coffee or tea and a slice of cake https://www.pipbensley.com/flowers/sale2024buyer
You can buy a ticket on the door but they are £6 on the day.
It runs from 11am to 1.30pm and is great fun and full of interesting, useful items. It is in the main hall, nice and dry and warm with loads of free parking.
Surrey Nafas Dorset & Guernsey Area of NAFAS Sussex Area of NAFAS
These are some of our past stallholders.

14/07/2024

A few new finds on the website now including a couple of lovely modernist dishes.

13/07/2024

Thank you East of England area of NAFAS for a really fun Area Day near Newmarket. Lots of lovely vases have gone to new homes. Don't forget I am happy to come to any NAFAS Area Day with my vintage flower vases.

04/07/2024

Are you going to the East of England Area of NAFAS Area Day at The Beeches, Isleham on Saturday 13th July? If so we will be there with our vintage flower vases. We are packing stock now so if there is anything in particular you are interested in do let us know and we will squeeze it in. We have literally hundreds of vases to choose from. This is what we took to Chichester Flower Festival to give you an idea of the sort of things to expect.

04/07/2024

If you, like me, have been gathering flower arranging or floristry "stuff" for years we have the perfect solution. Our Flower Arrangers Sale is like an indoor car boot sale and other like minded flower arrangers and florists come along and have a wonderful rummage through all your things and go hame with lots of exciting bargains.
We are down to our last 2 selling tables now so if you are planning a clear out go to https://www.pipbensley.com/flowers/sale2024seller to secure your table. Don't leave it too late!
It is just £15 and you get a 6 foot table and you can pile your stuff up on the table, under the table and even behind the table! It includes tea and cake also to keep you going.
If you want some moral support why not book a table for your flower club or get a friend to share with you?
This is what I have lined up so far for my table. We are on our 4th annual sale and it is great fun and who knows what you will find there. I am bringing sundries, accessories, pva glue, stands, containers, driftwood and all sorts of other bits.
If you want to come and hunt for floral treasure go to https://www.pipbensley.com/flowers/sale2024buyer to get your early bird ticket for £3.50 which includes a cup of tea or coffee and cake. If you wait and buy your ticket on the door it is £6.

18/06/2024

Loving all the different colour choices going out this week

15/06/2024

The finished article!

15/06/2024

It looks amazing! I am so pleased. It was definitely painted when new as there is not a mark on it!
It has turned into a sensational swan!!!
Now it just needs some flowers in it!!

15/06/2024

It was like an episode of The Repair Shop. I channelled my inner ceramicist and fine art restorer.
I was armed with eco paint stripper, a big paint brush to slop a thick layer of it on, a thin kebab stick to scape off the stripper, a flat ended hard bristle artists brush to encourage the paint out of difficult corners, plenty of kitchen towel to wipe off the used stripper and paint remains, big gloves to protect my hands and a mountain of newspaper to protect everything around me.
The great news is that the trial patch on the base worked well so I went ahead and did the whole vase.
Would you like to see how it went??

14/06/2024

My mind is made up. It is time to see whether it is possible to strip the silver paint off this Spry beauty as it is making it something of an ugly duckling and no one can see beyond the colour. I am pretty sure that this was painted very early in its life as the bits that have peeled off look brand new underneath.
There was a silver painted on in the exhibition at The Garden Museum and I have a theory that these were painted for an event and then sold off afterwards. I don’t suppose we will ever find out the truth but expert Tony Peart says he bought two silver ones from Winkfield Place where the flower school was based.
I am nervous about this as another vase dealer who has a lot of Sprys said she had a terrible time trying to strip one.
I will update you on how it goes.

11/06/2024

We were working on the new Meadow Exhibit definition in class last week. The room looked fantastic with all the meadows together.

09/06/2024

Had a lovely day at the Royal Windsor Flower Show yesterday. I even came away with a third place for my entry in “Garden Bounty” in the flower arranging

07/06/2024

That’s it for us at . Thank you so much to all of you who came and said hello. We love hearing all your stories about vases. We had some great chats about starting flower clubs and ideas for competition entries. To everyone who gained a new treasure - enjoy them! Thank you to Alex and Ellie, my excellent assistants - I couldn’t have done it without you! Here are our favourite items from the last day.

04/06/2024

We are ready for the public to arrive tomorrow morning at Chichester Cathedral Flower Festival

02/06/2024

An early morning slot on BBC Radio Solent this morning

31/05/2024

These little beauties will be at Chichester Cathedral next week on Tuesday evening, Wednesday and Thursday.

31/05/2024

Very busy couple of days sorting out 6 crates of classic vintage vases for Chichester Cathedral Flower Festival next week. We will be there at the Preview evening and on Wednesday and Thursday. I think you can safely say we have something for everyone from small vases starting at £4 to a stunning early Constance Spry original vase in the thousands!

31/05/2024

We are not on the list but WE WILL BE THERE! Check us out at the Chichester Cathedral Flower Festival Market at the Preview Evening on Tuesday and on Wednesday and Thursday next week with our wonderful vintage vases.
Also if there is anything you would like to buy from our website let us know and we can bring it to the festival for you, to collect to save the postage and packing.

25/05/2024

Exploring the possibilities of ways to take wall vases to shows with me. Would they tempt you?

23/05/2024

Some gorgeous new vases are now on the website including this lovely white Constance Spry, a deep teal Sacla urn, rare red Shorter & Son mantle, mid century Devonway rose pattern mantle and fabulous rare pink SylvaC fish scale vase.

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Upper Shirley
Southampton
SO155NY

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+447496829660

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http://www.pipbensley.com/

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We took flowers to a special lady celebrating an incredible 54 years at the Beeb this week. #florist #southampton #delivery #BBC #englishflowers #helliwells #whinwhistle

Royal Windsor Flower Show

Had a lovely day at the Royal Windsor Flower Show yesterday. I even came away with a third place for my entry in “Garden Bounty” in the flower arranging

Pip Bensley Flowers

We are ready for the public to arrive tomorrow morning at Chichester Cathedral Flower Festival #chiflowerfestival #mantlevases #constancespry

Autistic Society Chelsea 2024

Classic green and white is just so timeless and hopefully uplifting too.

Our lesson making a Spring Arch recently. The room smelt amazing with all the fabulous scented flowers. This makes a lovely workshop and can be adapted for any time fo the year.

Have a look round our stall at St Thomas Church in Lymington

Pretty pink flowers today for a new arrival. Congratulations on such a special moment!

More autumnal tints today to brighten up a drab rainy morning

Pretty pink shades yesterday with a hint of dark red and soft lime to add vibrancy. Two different roses - Victorian Bride and the spray rose Bombastic pair with sweetly scented lilac stocks.

There is a new Interflora World Champion, Nickolaus Peters from Germany. Much as it pains me to admit it, he really deserved it, his work was exceptional! Congratulations Nickolaus! Elisabeth Pålsson from Norway came second Elizabeth Newcombe from the UK really did us proud, and came third (out of 37,000 florists worldwide!)

A seasonal bouquet winging its way out for anniversary celebration. It features roses and cosmos supported with locally grown, jewel like dahlias, starry astrantias, aromatic eucalyptus, sweetly scented phlox, mint flowers, fluffy grass heads and furry ballota leaves.

Rebecca Parker signing off in her last edition of The Kitchen Garden on BBC Radio Solent. She will be very much missed as will her excellent jokes, her impossible Pub Garden Quiz and all her empathetic help for gardeners all around the Solent area and beyond.

Birthday Bouquet

Classic white with a touch of soft lime and blue for a Birthday celebration.

This seasonal bouquet was our super big version in a huge ribbed glass vase and packed with gorgeously scented deep pink garden roses, pink and blue hydrangeas, pink foxgloves, nodding purple aquilegias, richly scented sweet williams, floating chasmanthium grass seed heads, aromatic eucalyptus, blue delphiniums and rich purple carnations, bright orange antirrhinums and deepest blue Larkspur. This one was sent to celebrate American Mothers Day

Really pleased with my design in Candles and Canticles at The National Show. It is completely foam free and almost all of the flowers were grown just a few miles from me.

Are you coming to see our Flower Arrangers Sale today. We are here at Colbury Memorial Hall Southampton from 11-1.30. My stuff is here and there is lots of it! You can still buy a ticket online at pipbensley.com for £3.50 or on the door for £5.

I often talk about the Constance Spry Method for folding chicken wire. Here is a video explaining the technique which was taught to me by the late Susie Edwards who worked for Constance Spry in her floristry team. Please feel free to share the video to anyone who you think may want to be more successful with flowers in chicken wire. #foamfree #chickenwire #constancespry #susieedwards #PipBensley #flowerarrangement #floristry #churchflowers

A special challenge yesterday! One of my regular customers asked whether I could fill this mantle vase which had belonged to her mother's sister, and of which she was now custodian, with autumn flowers for her mother's special birthday party. Even better, almost all the flowers came from my New Forest grower and no floral foam was involved so a really sustainable project all round.