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05/05/2025

We love the chapel and bringing in these super seasonal urn designs gave it the finishing touch for a wedding ceremony. There was such lovely light, caught beautifully by

and I love showcasing British seasonal stems. We look around us fairly close to the event, see what’s looking at its best, and work that into the design. In this case, the apple blossom and clematis were in their prime and we had to include them alongside other British-grown stems from and .

Have you got an event on the horizon? Do get in touch for an introductory chat!

09/03/2025

Join us this spring to learn how to make your own hand-tied bouquet using British-grown spring flowers. Link to book in bio!

These workshops are on Saturday 29th March, the day before Mother’s Day, so they are the perfect opportunity to create a gift for someone or spend time with your family! Whilst you’re there, complete your Mother’s Day gift using a 15% discount in The Arc for all workshop attendees.

During the 1-hour workshop you will learn about composition of a bouquet, putting the stems together in a spiral pattern, securing and wrapping it.

This is an adult-led activity but accompanied children are welcome to attend with you!

These are daytime workshops on Saturday 29th March, for which there are multiple time slots during the day:

10am-11am

12noon-1pm

2pm-3pm

£35, per bouquet made, which includes a hot drink from . If you would like to make more than one bouquet, please book more than one ticket.

Children must be accompanied at all times.

Location: The Arc Bedford, 7 Howard St, Bedford MK40 3HS

26/02/2025

A couple of weeks ago, I dressed the front of , a local sustainable restaurant in Woburn, for the busy Valentine’s weekend.

Valentine’s, and winter in general, pushes British-grown enthusiasts to think creatively about how we can bring in colour and impact without using imported stems. I’m proud to say this design was entirely British-grown, using locally-sourced foliage, tulips from and other flowers from

If you are local to Woburn and haven’t yet tried Lussmanns, go check it out. It is delicious and ethically-sourced food with wonderful service, enjoyed in a beautiful space!

25/02/2025

Looking back to a couple of weeks ago, when we installed The Bloom Booth; an area where gals could get selfies with their gal pals, at The Arc’s Galentine’s Gala!

Massive thanks to Gemma and the team , as ever, for your support and positivity 😘

This was a fun project, where I experimented with oversized crepe paper petals for impact on a larger scale. I like the effect and hope to take it even further next time.

Using all British-grown stems at this time of year can be a challenge, but we did it and I’m proud of that. Ordering British flowers in February is pretty much all online for me (this isn’t the case once the local flower farmers get going in March/April), so there’s a lot of visualisation going on, checking stem length specifications, mood boards etc to get the vision in my mind’s eye without seeing it in-person at the market or wholesaler.

Big thanks to and for getting everything to me in great condition at an extremely busy time of year for you!

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07/02/2025

As I look forward to a week of exciting installations over Valentine’s Day, I wanted to post a quick introduction here. Things have changed a fair bit since I last did this and it feels long overdue!

I’m Christina, and this is Petals & Amazons, our luxury, season-led, floral design studio. Working with private or corporate clients, we specialise in designing and creating striking floristry for events and installations, promoting British-grown flowers and sustainable floristry techniques along the way.

Producing statement pieces, our work is often on a large-scale, so I can frequently be found balancing precariously on a platform! We’ve invested in mechanics that ensure we never use floral foam, even when it seems an impossible task to do so, and we love hosting seasonal workshops to pass on these techniques.

Born in Brixton, now settled in Bedfordshire, we work wherever the projects take us across the UK. Please do check out our portfolio of work on our recently updated website (link in bio) and get in touch if you’d like to discuss an event that you’re hosting in 2025!

30/01/2025

Join us this spring to learn how to make your own hand-tied bouquet using British-grown spring flowers. Accompanied children are welcome to attend this workshop with you! Link to book in bio!

These workshops are on Saturday 29th March, the day before Mother’s Day, so they are the perfect opportunity to create a gift, spend time with your family or send them with someone else to create something for you! Whilst you’re there, complete your Mother’s Day gift using a 15% discount in The Arc for all workshop attendees.

During the 1-hour workshop you will learn about composition of a bouquet, putting the stems together in a spiral pattern, securing and wrapping it.

This is a daytime workshop on Saturday 29th March, for which there are multiple time slots during the day:

10am-11am

12noon-1pm

2pm-3pm

£35, per bouquet made, which includes a hot drink from . If you would like to make more than one bouquet, please book more than one ticket.

Children must be accompanied at all times.

Location: The Arc Bedford, 7 Howard St, Bedford MK40 3HS

22/12/2024

I don’t know about you but I’m delighted that the shortest day is now behind us. Today is actually bright too, a sign of what’s to come!

For now though, it’s all about Christmas. I love this planted table centre I made this week. These last so well and I love the woodlandy vibe.

I’ve been thinking about producing a workshop on making something similar, perhaps in the spring. Would you be interested in this? Let me know!

01/12/2024

Wreath workshops came to an end yesterday! We’ve had three mega workshops, seeing 56 people make totally unique and biodegradable wreaths 🙌.

It was great to see the familiar faces of people who have been making wreaths with me for years now, and to welcome new faces to the workshops too. Thank you to all for coming!

Huge thanks to Gemma at The Arc for hosting us too. I said it in my stories this week but I’ll say it again. She’s an absolute local legend! Huge supporter and promoter of Bedford small independent businesses, and for that I am truly grateful 😘.

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15/11/2024

Thursday was a really fun day, spent bringing Christmas to the window in Bedford!

One of the things I really love about these kinds of jobs are the reactions from people who walk by. It stops people in their tracks, puts smiles on their faces, and starts conversations. Thanks Castle Road for all the lovely comments as you went by!

The task was to create a seasonal ‘stage’, shining the spotlight on the beautiful Nelly Mosa products over the Christmas season. I really enjoyed finding ways to create decorations using only natural produce… take a closer look when you walk past and see if you can spot the star anise!

Big thanks to for your help and to for keeping the hot drinks flowing! We had a great time x

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19/10/2024

We were delighted to dress the front of for the launch of their new boutique in Bedford this weekend 🙌.

and I worked hard to secure as many British-grown flowers as we could, at the very end of the growing season, with many flower farmers having fewer crops than usual due to early frosts and huge amounts of rain!

We’re proud to say over 95% of this installation was British-grown, and no floral foam was used to build it.

Big thanks to all the British growers who supplied stems for this; and Sylvia.

And thanks Bedford for all the positivity! We really enjoyed meeting loads of you while we were working on it!

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14/10/2024

It wouldn’t be Christmas without a wreath on the door! And so with the arrival of Christmas this week and comes the hanging of this vibrant number.

It had to have a fun vibe (you’ve been to The Arc, right?), punchy in colour and needed to last some serious time (because yes, it’s October 😂). So I’ve used handmade wool pom-poms and silk velvet ribbons, as well as long-lasting conifer, to mix the traditional with the new.

I’m going to say it. I like her a lot. It’s fun to push myself to come up with new content for wreaths, when it could be very easy to roll out the same stuff year-on-year. Bring on the 2024 Christmas season!

20/09/2024

It’s been an immense week! You might have seen on my stories that I have been learning with at the beautiful .

All the photos in this post are using flowers from Floriston Flower Farm, in designs created and led by Lucy Vail Floristry, on their workshop From Farm To Masterpiece. Highly recommended!

So much to say about this experience, which will hopefully come out in my work over the coming weeks and months, but I wanted to start with something about the team; Lucy, Mimo, Autumn, Megan. I don’t use these words lightly… they are incredibly inspiring and creative women, who work bl**dy hard to push themselves every single day!

It reminded me that working with others has to be part of my business plan. Whether that’s collaborations, freelancing or more formal long-term relationships, I work better and am happier when I’m working with people.

I need to process everything I learnt there this week, but one thing I do know is I don’t want to revert to the status quo. It’s so easy to go on courses, feel inspired in the moment, and then get bogged down in day-to-day life when you return, unable to actually make the changes that you want to make. Hopefully not this time!

THANK YOU to the team at Lucy Vail and Floriston for the support, encouragement and generosity in sharing your experience and knowledge.

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