A little whizz through the sheer joy that was last weekend’s Creative Floristry - Flower Cloud Making workshop ☁️ 🌸
The group all made wonderfully individual clouds, each one a unique and beautiful piece of floral sculpture, crafted from an array of shapes, colours and textures found in our exquisite British grown everlasting botanicals and flowers.
Thanks so much to all who came (I’ve tagged those who I know are on here), the relaxed but buzzy creative energy of everyone making their clouds was so much fun to be part of. And your finished clouds were amazing!!
If you’d like to keep up with future workshop news, and dates, do please subscribe to our newsletter via the website. Next up is Gather & Arrange - Spring Bowls at the amazing @millpondflowerfarm which I’m so excited for! A morning wandering, picking and creating with locally grown flowers - just heaven 💚
Bringing my seasonal treasures together for a little bit of Halloween fun 🎃 There’s something about this moment that I just love, maybe it’s that little bit of extra magic in the air…
As kids we made lanterns out of turnips but nowadays I prefer to collect the most gorgeous pumpkins and squashes to have around the house - they’re so much nicer to look at and eat, roasted and spiced 😊
This Samhain tablescape includes gathered botanicals like crab apples from @millpondflowerfarm, pumpkins from @kilduff_farm and @communitycarrot_dunbar with chrysanthemums, nasturtiums, calendula, cosmos, cobea vines and my first home grown tigarella tomatoes from the garden. And of course my favourite beeswax candles from @wax_atelier and @objectsofuse can have their perfect moment burning, and getting blown out, too. For me, this is a little warm and grateful farewell to the abundance of this year and a welcoming in to the restorative Winter period.
Wishing peaceful Samhain times to you 🎃🍁🌸🧡
Meadows on my mind… 🌾
Our upcoming ‘Gather & Arrange - Summer Meadows’ workshop at Mill Pond Flower Farm is all about immersing ourselves in, and creating with, glorious locally grown Summer blooms; and I can’t wait!
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Join us on Saturday 1st July, 10-12.30. Full details are on my website, link below. The cost is £70.
Please email [email protected] to book or with any questions.
I’m so looking forward to sharing this wonderful flowery morning with you!
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Floral bottles filled with early June flowers from the Studio Seapink garden and Mill Pond Flower Farm.
https://www.studioseapink.com/events/gather-arrange-summer-meadows
Fashionably late to the party, my dahlias are just starting to open in the garden - too late for the weddings I hoped to use them for and dangerously close to the first frost date which will ruin them instantly. Jeez, this growing business is full of peril and jeopardy 😅
Regardless, these new varieties are everything I hoped they’d be and a few hours in the garden amongst them have done me the world of good after a week of the lurgy.
My dahlia documentation / dahlia appreciation moment above was then made complete when the early evening light went all magical 🌈
Bunches of June - a dive into some of the bouquets we recently put together for local customer orders. Packed with seasonal delights such as British grown peonies, scented stocks and scabious combined with @millpondflowerfarm’s incredible roses, foxgloves, campanula, pinks, astrantia, mint, jasmine, grasses and more (and a wee bit of foliage from our own cutting garden 😉).
I love bringing these special flowers to you, all grown with love and with respect to our planet - and we’ll offer more of these later in the Summer. The best way to be notified of this is via our mailing list, so do DM me if you’d like to be added.
Thank you for the orders 💚
For Ukraine 💚🌻 💚
Now available - Limited Edition Spring Equinox A4 Fine Art Print as featured in the new beautiful Sunflower Journal, styled and photographed by me. This is an opportunity to own a quality print of this image featured on the magazine cover, ready for popping into a standard size frame.
All proceeds from the sale of these prints will go to amazing children’s charity Voices for Children who are doing tremendous work providing practical and psychological support to children affected by the terrible events in Ukraine.
https://m.facebook.com/vocukraine/
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Beautifully printed on 310gsm matte fine art paper, each print is £45 incl P&P, only 10 available, please DM to buy. Let’s put ££ where it’s so needed 🙏 Thank you xx
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An excerpt from Sunflower Journal :
“While creating this arrangement I was inspired by the idea of emergence, of roots stirring under the soil and the first flowers bursting through. I was thinking, too, if darkness turning to light and coolness to warmth as the days grow longer and the sun’s heat strengthens.”
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Hope, always.
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Huge thank to Carmen Haigh, Sunflower Journal & Gabi Silvera for their support organising this fundraiser. You can help spread the word with a share or comment - which lets the FB algorithm know this is a valuable post 😘
Today daylight properly returned to the studio, as the scaffolding that’s been throwing a gloomy feel over everything finally came down and the builders left. In the winter sunlight, a sort and tidy felt overdue and it’s like a breath of much needed fresh air!
I think it’s fair to say building work on our house has somewhat dominated our lives lately. It all became a bit challenging in the midst of Storm Arwen when we had unprotected walls, water was coming in and 90mph gusts battered the house 😅 but now we have a warmer, drier, well insulated home and that feels great. I will get round to decorating eventually, probably.
Getting settled into a mini hibernation now as ideas for next year bubble and grow, both for flowers and for our home. It’s a year (and what a year!) today since we landed here and I’m sooo grateful for it.
Keep safe everyone xx
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A gorgeous moment in an unforgettable year of weddings!
The sun rising on our last bridal bouquet of 2021, last Saturday, for J. The colours just looked so beautiful in the emerging dawn light.
2021, you’ve been a lot 😂This wedding season has been epic, it’s been wonderful, it’s been so incredibly beautiful, and it’s been a little exhausting too. And I’m so grateful for it.
Thank you to my amazing couples - it’s been my total honour and privilege to create florals for your incredible weddings, many of which were so long awaited, postponed or reimagined. And all that bit more special because of it, too!
Till next year 🧡
Pumpkin play for Hallowe’en, or Samhain if you prefer - the ancient Celtic celebration to mark the end of harvest and the turn towards winter.
Happy guising to all dressing up tonight. We’re looking forward to some apple dooking later and doling out enough sweets to fill a truck...
More pics in Stories, even a spooky reel, just for fun. 👻
A big textural, flowery hug made for the gorgeous wedding of G & F @timberyard10 on Sunday… just loving the bounty of early Autumn! 🧡
Flowers @pyrusbotanicals @mcconnell.blooms and some garden treats.
