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What flowers you’d like to have at your funeral should be a reflection of your own life - not of someone else’s.
Have you ever thought what you’d like?
Have you told someone?
The florists in our Directory will listen and will create an arrangement that reflects the unique life just ended and will create it in a way that doesn’t pollute the planet.
Be different, be yourself.
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Time spent with flowers in your hands is never wasted.
Even when, like yesterday, there were no orders to fulfil and the shed was demanding to be tidied… I still found myself interlacing stems and seeking the ‘just right’ late colour from the field.
It’s hypnotic: almost all the blooms were well past their best and yet they came together to create some November beauty on a dank day.
The Rose is Stephen Rulo; opening from a tan coloured bud to become a fabulous, gorgeous grey, sitting perfectly with blue flowers and silvery foliage and utterly beautiful in any funeral arrangement.
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“Can we have something autumnal to reflect the season? And Dad liked colour. Happy for you to use whatever you think is best.” In Autumn and Winter being properly seasonal needs an open mind and flexibility as choices are restricted by the change to colder blustery weather and many flowers coming to the end of their natural growing season. But there’s still beauty to be had to meet a seasonally inspired brief for smaller arrangements like this wreath made on a woven mossed based. #autumnwreath #autumnvibes🍁 #thefarewellflowersdirectory #funeralflowers #plasticfreefunerals #sustainablefuneralflowers #greenfuneralflowers #compostablefuneralflowers #naturalfuneralflowers #ecofuneralflowers #flowersforfunerals #flowerloversdaily #flowerstagram #nofloralfoam
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Two amazing conferences in a week.
Both filled with passionate people eager to bring about positive change in their own specialised sector.
Carole and I came away at the end of the busy four days energised by the excitement and resolve we’d been surrounded by and more determined than ever to create a better way forward for sustainable funeral flowers.
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Interesting times at the Institute of Cemetery and Crematoria Management conference. Lots of enthusiasm about compostable tributes from the managers of the sites who have to deal with funeral flower waste. I’ve also had a lengthy chat with a woodland burial site manager who is desperate to find an eco-friendly florist so if you are near the Wirral and passionate about plastic free flowers a)join us and b)drop me a comment below and I’ll see if I can connect you! Let’s change funeral flowers one arrangement (and one connection) at a time. Never underestimate the ripple effect….#thefarewellflowersdirectory #funeralflowers #greenfuneralflowers #sustainablefuneralflowers #plasticfreefunerals #naturalfuneralflowers #compostablefuneralflowers #ecofuneralflowers #plasticfree
Inspired by the baskets of flowers from this Spring’s photoshoots with florists listed on our Directory, I made up a trug full of flowers yesterday (loved it!) and thought I’d show you how how the flowers can be split out in their individual jars or generously and quickly combined into larger bouquets which you can enjoy in vases. Flowers love an afterlife so it’s a shame to leave them behind at the crematorium. #afterlife #reducereuserecycle #plasticfree #nofloralfoam #foamfreefloristry #thefarewellflowersdirectory #funeralflowers #bethechange #sustainablefloristryuk #madeforsharing #inspiredbypetals #thursdaymotivation #letschangetheworld #letschangefuneralflowers
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The flowers in this lovely sheaf have a second life after the funeral is over.
Undoing just a few bows allows the whole arrangement to fall into four separate bunches that can be gifted to friends and taken home after the service.
Look at The Farewell Flowers Directory to find a florist near you who can create plastic-free flowers that don’t have to be left behind at the crematorium.
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FUNEREAL
Adjective
‘Having the sombre, mournful character suitable to a funeral’.
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Last week I was contacted by a funeral directors who were interested in recommending me to their clients who’d opted for a natural burial locally. It was lovely to be approached as a sign that things are changing, but compostable funeral flowers are appropriate and lovely for ANY kind of funeral. The majority of the eco-friendly arrangements I make are for cremations as this is the most common form of funeral in the UK. Here at The Farewell Flowers Directory we want to make sustainable, plastic-free funeral flowers mainstream, not niche and to change perceptions of what ‘funeral flowers’ are for good #flowerstagram #floristsuk #ukflorist #britishfloristassociation #thefarewellflowerdirectory #funeralflowers #plasticfreejuly #ecofriendly #sustainableliving #sustainabledying #sustainablefloristry #doingdifferently #bethechange
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Funeral flowers come in all shapes and sizes - just like the people they celebrate.
Make sure that, one day, your flowers will resemble you - and not just be a clone of someone else’s.
Find the right kind of florist on The Farewell Flowers Directory.
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50 years without change.
50 years of the same pleated plastic ribbon, the same rigid shapes.
50 years of believing there was only one way that funeral flowers ought to look.
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Say hullo to The Farewell Flowers Directory as we drag funeral flowers into the 21st century.
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Well now I understand how it feels to sell the Big Issue.
Lots of people engaged and asked questions.
It began some really useful conversations between families about their wishes for their own funerals.
But ‘uncomfortable’ appeared to be the majority reaction.
So many people slowed down to look and then sped up when they read the sign, suddenly very interested in the man selling herbs opposite.
The Farewell Flowers Directory was at Great Yorkshire Show
