Green Feather Flowers

12/03/2025

Very excited to announce my new collaboration with ! 3 hours immersed in eco-floristry foraging and making at the beautiful lakeside reserve of the The Nature Discovery Centre. This is somewhere I’ve made lovely memories with my little apprentice and our best friends so it will be extra special to walk these paths with my floristry hat on instead of my Mummy one. Both metaphorical hats of course, because unless it’s a bike helmet or a flower crown it’s not going on my head. Spaces are bookable for the Spring session by following the link in my bio. Come and play! Any questions, of course DM, text, phone, email…

Curiosity blooms.

08/03/2025

Happy International Women’s Day One and All! A special bunch of tulips here for the birthday of my best and curliest friend! Her birthday falling in the same week as International Women’s Day seemed like a pretty good reason to acknowledge one of the most thoughtful, expressive, sensitive, intelligent, unique, caring and all round beautiful people I am lucky enough to have in my life, with a splash of vibrant petals. Which wonderful women might you celebrate this weekend?

Thank you for gorgeous tulips as always.

Curiosity blooms.

26/02/2025

One of the things I love about foraging for ingredients in local gardens is the unpredictability. Even visiting the 2 familiar locations I cut from for this design, I couldn’t have told you beforehand what it would have looked like. I had a hopeful inkling that virburnum would be involved, being one of the few winter-flowering plants at my disposal. The joyous surprise here for me was the fern. Big, bold green fronds dancing in the breeze, standing out against the grey of the day. Ferns are often used as a backdrop in traditional floral arrangements. Their large diamond-shaped leaf formation tesselates seamlessly to create outlines for conventional funeral sprays, or they are placed around the edge of a bouquet as a frame for the flowers within. I wanted to capture the fun of spotting them in that garden and to celebrate this humble plant and place it centre stage. It’s waving at you from the middle of these designs, saying “Look at me! I’m a fern and I’m fabulous!” Curiosity blooms.

19/02/2025

The Joy of Creating Bespoke Designs
This sounds cheesy but the reason I love designing wedding and funeral flowers tailored to individual people is that we go on a journey together. 9 times out of 10, people I work with will never have created a floral aesthetic before, and often these are people I am meeting for the first time. This could feel daunting but remember, we are both experts in exactly what we need to be (plus I love making new flowery friends!): You know all about you or the members of your bridal party or the loved one you are grieving and I know how to use locally grown flowers and foliage as a beautiful visual language whatever the season. We talk in depth, I sketch, you reflect and hey presto! We’ve collaborated to create a gorgeous, sustainable design aesthetic that is uniquely you. If you’ve got someone or something you’d like to honour in flowers, I’d love to hear your story. You’re very welcome to email me on [email protected] if social media responses aren’t your preference.

07/02/2025

Due to my lack of enthusiasm for both mathematics and web design I am thrilled to announce that I’ve finished updating the Green Feather wedding flower web page for the 2025/6 season - hooray! For inspiration on wedding flowers, to book for your celebration or just to peruse some beautiful floral pictures from talented wedding photographers, take a look at the link in my bio.

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29/01/2025

January is a reflective time for me and I so appreciate these calmer moments to look back and evaluate what worked in the previous year and make plans for the upcoming season. 2024 was filled with opportunities to explore and celebrate our wonderful British flora with both people who have supported me from the beginning (heading into Year 4 of Green Feather now) and friendly new faces too. Here’s a glimpse of some of why I’ve started 2025 feeling extremely grateful:

1. Embracing an 80’s colour palette with stunning Lincolnshire tulips grown by in February
2. Summery smiles from participants at the June session of my foraged floristry workshops at
3. Deeply personal and special summer memorial flowers for the internment of an inspiring and much-loved woman.
4. Wildlife-inspired wedding florals brandished beautifully by Emily & James, captured gorgeously by in August
5. The bride with the BIG bouquet and the most adorable accomplice, you guys know who you are!
6. A cocktail of soft, textured and rich for Nicole & Alex’s bespoke wedding scheme in September
7. Congratulations Phili & Steve! Exquisite portrait by
8. The most wholesome workday in November collaborating with Sanctara Sounds by Jo in the beautiful Padworth woodland
9. POV: When your 2 year old’s “helping” empty the bin bucket
10. Rounding off the year with a beer or 3 and wreathmaking workshop once again at

Thank you to and for the high-quality phenomenal locally grown flowers, and to my generous garden foraging permissions around Reading 💚

24/12/2024

I was blown away by how quickly spaces were snapped up for our 3rd year of foraged wreath-making workshops at our welcoming and delicious ! Our 2 groups were brilliant fun, full of festive enthusiasm and made incredibly beautiful decorations from materials foraged with their own fair hands; each wreath as unique as their fingerprints.

I wish you could lean in and smell the fresh herbal, citrus scents of these gorgeous creations. The whole taproom smelled like Christmas. And all thanks to ingredients in our local gardens, woods and parks. Thank you nature, thank you jolly participants!

Why not come and engage your senses a workshop next year? Seasonal sessions will run throughout the year and I’ll be planning the workshops soon so if there’s a floristry skill you’d like to learn to create sustainably I’d love to hear from you!

Whatever your Christmas looks like, may there be merry moments ✨✨✨

08/11/2024

My friend passed away last week so this is dedicated to her and the amazing, inspirational woman that she was.
The overall shape of the bouquet is a loose heart because she was someone absolutely bursting with love. The design is a fairly solid mass to represent her safe, nurturing homeliness. The tight, neat arrangement also nods to the affectionate unit that she made with her husband, and the inseparable intertwined unit of her family. The majority of the colours are vibrant, as she conjured fun and frivolity. This bright palette of dried flowers summons her optimism; as we head towards winter, they are a reminder of the summer abundance that will come around again following the darker stage of the year. The combined attributes of being both colourful and long-lasting illustrate her positive and reassuring presence. The longevity of dried flowers represents her strength. She was full of warmth and wit, indicated by the collection of warm yellows and oranges. The ingredients are predominantly arranged in blocks of individual colours, as a reminder of her calm, straightforward practicality. She both wrote and spoke with an optimistic, inclusive sincerity that was genuine and engaging, shown here through silver honesty pods interspersed with warmly centred delicate daisies.Tiny stars of alchemica mollis hover in the top right, acknowledging her return to nature and a reminder that she will always be with me. The spiky balls of thistle symbolise the hurt of her loss. Nigella holds the meaning ‘perplexity’, and voices my feeling of powerlessness in helping her family other than sending messages of love and quietly processing my own comparatively small grief. The dark pinks of the dahlias at the bottom stand for the rupture of her death being so sudden, the irreparable hole left in the centre of her family, but also her characteristic cheeky wink.

Gorgeous ingredients from

07/03/2024

We’ve got a few spaces left for our workshop this Saturday and you lucky lovelies can book by following this link: https://www.greenfeatherflowers.co.uk/booking-calendar/workshop-double-barrelled-brewery?referral=service_list_widget

01/03/2024

What a treat have our first podcast appearance, in conversation with Damien of What's On Reading! This is such a handy monthly listen for busy local people; 10-15 minutes at the beginning of each month outlining an array of fun and exciting events that you can attend across Reading. Plus each month there’s an interview with one of the fascinating folk behind these activities…just look who it is in March! Go on, have a listen… 💚💐🐓

Our March is here! We chat with Kathryn from Green Feather Flowers about the fun foraged floristry workshops they've got coming up this month, combining creativity with the natural heritage on your doorstep!

Plus, we pick our other highlights for the month - music festivals, choral concerts and lots of fun for kids!
Listen now via https://whatsonreading.com/podcast

05/01/2024

Collaborating with nature in aesthetic choices runs through all Green Feather work, whether it’s the unpretentious wedding posey, the fondest farewell or the most abundant workshop ingredients list. This is rooted in a commitment to working sustainably, but I find it almost always enriches designs, often in unexpected ways. On New Year’s Eve I wanted to cut something from my garden to mark the change from 2023 to 2024. In other local gardens and our nearest park I had seen ivy sporting its beautiful black berries, heavy and generous, and had been eagerly awaiting our garden ivy to fruit, envisaging a simple little jar of stems bursting with black berries sitting on my kitchen table. Our ivy was not accommodating. Disappointed at first glance that there were only a few ripened berries scattered through the wall of greenery…but when something isn’t as I’m expecting it encourages a closer look. Instead of the simple vision of green and black in my head, I was rewarded in reality with ivy berries at multiple stages of their life cycle; from barely formed yellow smudges, to small plump green spheres masquerading as tiny acorns before darkening to dusky blue and finally black. A jar of glossy leaves and ripe berries is elegant beauty, but my garden gifted me a portrait of transformation to transition into 2024. Wishing you all a thoughtful, happy, healthy New Year… Curiosity blooms.

24/12/2023

‘Tis the season for a festive swag to hang on your door or in your home. Cypress, eucalyptus, mistletoe, euonymus, pittosporum all saved from garden waste and turned to botanical treasure, plus grasses, pennycress and bluebell pods cut and dried in the summer. This style of bouquet is also well-suited for lying flat in memory someone departed from us. Loss doesn’t pause during holidays, so it is a soothing thought for me that this design combines Christmas magic with peaceful farewell. Wishing you all a calm and joyful Christmas.