Webb and Farrer

06/02/2025

📢 How to get the most from your cut flowers so you can keep them going in that vase for a few more days 🙌. I also take out any of the flowers that have gone over because some flower varieties just last longer than others 🌹🥀

I'd love to hear your tricks for keeping your cut flowers lasting longer 🌼

04/02/2025

Something to plan, plant and grow for a Summer table vase. This one was made of all locally farmed and home grown flowers.
📓 The recipe:
- mint and jasmine foliage
- achillea
- hydrangea
- ammobium
- snapdragon
- delphinium
- echinacea

03/02/2025

Focusing on these 6 seeds this year because last year I sowed lots of different types with varying degrees of success. This year is all about good old quality over quantity 👩‍🌾

1. Scabious - I successfully grew 2 plants last year and they produced so many flowers, so I'm just imagining the floral abundance if I can grow more this year 🙌
2. Cosmos - in my experience, the easiest of all these to grow and the flowering plants last into late summer and beyond
3. Zinnia - 🐌 every single seedling got eaten by slugs last year, the only way is up!
4. Cosmos - shorter oranges and yellows to try this time around 🤞
5. Sweet peas - need soaking before they're sown. 🌼 The more these are cut, the more flowers grow
6. Snapdragons - 🐲 I managed a few of these last year so fingers crossed I'll be able to grow more this time around!

Have you chosen any seeds you're growing this year?

24/01/2025

Looking to be more seasonal with your flowers? Here's a recipe for a Spring wedding bouquet in April:

Clematis
Ranunculus
Forget me nots
Daffodils
Tulips
Stocks
Sarcococca foliage
🎀Tied up with a dusky pink ribbon

🌼💐💛 All seasonally grown in the UK and the foliage, clematis and forget me nots were grown in the garden

13/01/2025

Something to plan for and look forward to 🌷. Spring bud vases for the table with seasonal UK grown flowers.
📒 Here's the recipe:
• Handful of daffodils
• Ranunculus, bud stems included
• Blush green hellebores
• Sprigs of viburnum

Start collecting your glass bottles now for really easy and simple table centre flowers 🌼, when the bulbs start popping up over the coming months. You can reuse little perfume bottles, chilli sauce bottles and mini gin bottles. And you don't need huge bunches of flowers to make an impact, just a few stems

08/01/2025

Hi I'm Alex!

I founded Webb and Farrer as a florist in 2014 and now I'm enthusiastic about home grown and locally farmed flowers 👩‍🌾. In the floristry industry, so many of the flowers have been exported in from across the world so growing and arranging our own is a great alternative and helps our pollinators out too 🐝 🦋
This year I am hoping for a few less snails than last year though and more sweet peas, nasturtiums, clematis flowers and forget me nots.
What are you growing this year?

06/01/2025

Packing up Christmas today and hoovering up the pineneedles. I'm very tempted to look straight ahead to Spring and skip past Jan and Feb.
But to get the garden ready for when it gets light and warmer, I've been planning fun things for the next few weeks. The most important task is to get my Spring bulbs in this week! I got some bargain tulip bulbs from b&q so we'll see how those do and I'll show you those this week.

29/04/2024

A few bits from April 🌷 including
a dried wedding bouquet in beautiful shades of soft orange and peach,
the seedling table collapse,
Leo 🐾,
a beautiful country pub 🌼,
bluebell woods 💙 and Nymans.

07/02/2024

Planning what to sow and when from the tin of seeds. Definitely feel one step closer to being a gardener now I have an allocated seed tin.

Are you growing anything new in the garden for this summer? I'll be growing the cupcake cosmos variety and also these colourful carrots 🥕 and maybe a prize winning marrow 🏆 if I'm lucky

11/01/2024

Let me know your favourite dried flowers 👇

For me it's got to be the straw flower. They're also known as everlasting flowers and you'll usually find them featuring in the dried flower crown workshop 🌼

18/04/2023

🌺Dried Floral Hoop Workshop | Saturday May 20th.🌺 During this 90 minute workshop Alex will take you through the stages from handmaking your hoop from wire, to binding your dried flowers on. You'll create a dried floral hoop to take home with you, and it will look beautiful displayed indoors. Head online to book your space or come in for a chat.

30/03/2023

Brighter and warmer days ahead!💐Introducing our wonderful Spring workshop with the amazing Alex come and join us on the 29th April for a day of flower arranging, relaxing and connecting in our bright, colourful and welcoming workspace. Head online or come in for a chat for more details. 😃

16/03/2023

Very excited for the Fresh Flowers in a Vase Workshop at Radical Giving on Saturday April 29th @ 11am.
Join me and learn how to arrange fresh and seasonal flowers in a glass vase in this 90 minute workshop. You'll learn new florist skills that you can use whenever you've got flowers to put in a vase at home. We'll go through the steps to: condition the flowers, remove leaves from the stems and create an all round flower arrangement you can proudly take home with you.
More info and booking via this link:

Fresh Flowers in a Vase Workshop | Saturday April 29th @ 11am. Please note that due to our wonderful teachers coming far and wide, along with materials and other pre-workshop costs, we cannot provide refunds or exchanges.All workshop tickets are excluded from any online discounts. If a discount code...

25/11/2021

On the 5th December, learn how to make your own Christmas wreath to decorate your front door this festive season. We’ll have a crackling fire on the telly, there’ll be Christmas music on and mince pies and a glass of fizz are included too.
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The workshop's in the Spire Room Hall Brighton
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For more info and tickets, head to the link just below.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fresh-christmas-wreath-workshop-brighton-tickets-204405370967

17/11/2021

On Sunday 5th December I’ll be running a Christmas Wreath Making Workshop from 13:30 - 16:00 at Wagner Hall Brighton.
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Christmas music will feature heavily and there'll also be mince pies and a glass of fizz.
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In this 2.5 hour workshop you'll learn how to attach the fresh fir onto the wreath frame, followed by choosing your decorations and how to style them on your wreath.

🍊 You'll be using fragrant decorations like dried oranges and cinnamon sticks.

At the end of the workshop you'll have a wreath that you can take home and enjoy (and show off about).
For more info and tickets, head over here: https://fb.me/e/1BmeeqvVL

19/10/2021

Really looking forward to running this fresh Christmas wreath making workshop in Lewes at Radical Giving on the 12th December🌲⭐️ aaand there will be mince pies and mulled wine!

💫NOW LIVE💫 Learn how to make a beautiful fresh Christmas wreath this festive season with Alex . Using moss and fresh fir foliage and a choice of scented decorations, making this a beautiful natural fragrant greeting on your front door. Not to mention mulled wine and mince pies will be served through out. 😃

09/07/2021

20/02/2021

Saturday mornings having a coffee and pottering around are the best. To add a dash of sunshine and botanical leafiness to your mornings... and the rest of your day, my new glasshouse and orangery inspired prints are now up on my Etsy shop. You can have a browse with your coffee here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/WebbandFarrer