Tuckshop Flowers

20/07/2024

I had to chuckle when I saw this reel which Fieldhouse Flowers made today. Gill and I have teamed up to create The Farewell Flowers Directory (Farewell Flowers) and it always pays to work with the right people when you want to create change! Gill is brilliant when it comes to getting a message out. She's been working hard to bring the plastic problem in funeral flowers to public attention at The Great Yorkshire Show and Driffield Show in the last couple of weeks and today came up with this corker! It sums up the aesthetic part of the issue with funeral flowers brilliantly!
If you're wanting flowers that relax, wiggle and tread gently on the planet, check out The Farewell Flowers Directory website to find florists across the UK who can offer more natural choices, plastic-free for 21st Century funerals.

24/05/2024

New backdrop at work!! Magic.

17/05/2024

More folk left the Tuckshop this week with armfuls of lovely flowers after a handtied bouquet workshop. I’m hatching plans with for a wedding flowers workshop in June so if you’re tasked with ‘doing the flowers’, if you’re a DIY bride or groom, or if you’re just starting out in floristry and want to build your wedding flowers photo portfolio and experience then watch this space! Save the date: 26th June ….

15/05/2024

You don’t m know how long I spent crouching in front of geraniums with a macro lens to get that one!

14/05/2024

A throwback to a happy sunny May wedding - this lovely pair have been married for a year already! A beautiful day captured perfectly by . Loved R’s choice of colours for the day and the flowers were a treat to do.

10/05/2024

Hope to see you at The Coffin Works tomorrow for my pop up with Funeral Flowers as part of Dying Matters Awareness Week and Brum Yodo's 'A Matter of Life and Death Festival.'

It's been a busy week of funeral flowers as I have 4 florists with me on Tuesday, learning more about how to make them without using floral foam, and I'm only just sitting down after a glorious funeral flowers photoshoot with Farewell Flowers Directory as part of it's public launch.

Join me if you can and come and share your own ideas and thoughts about what makes a good funeral and what funeral flowers you'd love!

As part of Dying Matters Awareness Week, we have Carole from joining us for a pop up at the Coffin Works this Saturday 11th May.

Celebrating the launch of their directory, she'll be chatting all about sustainable funeral flowers, giving visitors a chance to think about them in a joyful way and have a go at making a mini wreath or dried flower embellishment to take away. All just included in your Self-Guided ticket so come along for a chat 12pm-3.30pm this Saturday 💐🌻

09/05/2024

Fun and games with folks, a camera, some giant letters and gorgeous locally grown blooms . And what about that blue sky and sunshine. How I’ve missed it!

01/05/2024

Getting plastic-free funeral flowers into the spotlight with Farewell Flowers - catch us on ITV central news tonight and see Meg's lovely flowers!

17/04/2024

Can’t think of a better way to spend the day than plotting, scheming and fireplace faffage with Meg. I’m sure this is how non-florists think we spend all our days but if only it were true. It really is the fun but. If you need a flowery fireplace in your life give us a shout. We’ve got it sussed now!

30/03/2024

A mini Easter 🐣 collection.

25/03/2024

I just hope no-one needs to wash their hands urgently…. When you live with a florist who’s got her hands on magnolia branches and who can’t find a suitable vase, stuff like this happens. I’ve been kind to my family and have dismantled it now.

19/03/2024

Essence of Spring anyone?

18/02/2024

There’s nothing quite like a gardener’s manicure. But never mind…welcome to the 2024 seed sowing season and come on you sweet peas!!!🌱🌱🌱

02/02/2024

It’s a blue sky day at the allotments. Sadly the tidy raised bed plot is my neighbour, not me!

31/01/2024

My typing fingers are on fire in the gloom of January... another blog post has landed...

If you're newly engaged and getting to grips with the overwhelming minutiae of wedding planning, here are my 10 tips for choosing a wedding florist (and it might not be me - read on to find out why!)

https://www.tuckshopflowers.com/index.php/2024/01/31/10-tips-for-choosing-a-wedding-florist/

26/01/2024

January may not be the floweriest month, but it can still provide enough for a pretty bouquet. Find out more about what's providing that key bouquet ingredient: wiggle! I'm going to try to make up a seasonal bouquet every month to chart the changes across the year and the seasons - and I've just squeezed January's effort in before the month ends!

26/01/2024

Nearly missed the boat with my resolution to showcase a bouquet representing each month. January isn’t generous with quantities but still has beautiful details. winter honeysuckle makes this bouquet smell amazing and that cascade of Garrya Eliptica tassels (they’re like mini pagodas!) is enough to make me do a little dance. My Garrya is still a baby so I can’t cut much yet - but my fingers itch every time I walk past gardens laden with it’s delightful dangly bits. This tassel came from my own shrub and makes me feel like a very proud mum.

25/01/2024

With love from Lincolnshire. Cherry tulips from for this weeks spring inspired arrangemts. And I LOVE the fact that big bunches of tulips generally come wrapped in paper, not plastic. Why can’t more flowers come wrapped in this way?

24/01/2024

All the ruffles. If daffodils were harder to grow we’d appreciate the even more.

24/01/2024

My your glug glug jugs be filled with sunshine and gurgle cheerfully. Cornish daffs this week from are bringing colour to my world.

19/01/2024

I'm starting 2024 off with a new blog post as I want to explain a little bit more about how I work and where my flowers come from - if you want to find out more, grab a cuppa and settle down for a read!

For freshness, perfume and less plastic If we're interested in a smaller carbon footprint in 2024, it's important to think about the why and how of our consumer choices. Locally grown flowers are always the most planet-friendly option, so why not use them all year round? Locally grown flowers = fewe...

14/12/2023

Final Christmas workshop of the year with the brilliant folk from A Natural Undertaking - just about managed to fit them into my work space to unleash their inner florists!

12/12/2023

Thanks to everyone who has ordered Christmas wreaths from me this year or has made them with me at workshops. Just one more order to deliver, and then that's the end of wreath making season for me this year!

Tuckshop Flowers will be closing from 22nd December and re-opening 5th January, so have a lovely Christmas and New Year in the meantime.

I'll leave you with a few wreaths and Christmassy bits from this year's collection!

30/11/2023

Such a fun day with Meg on her Worcestershire farm today - we were having a test day with dried flowers. I think I'm convinced now that I've had a play with her wonderful store cupboard of dried bounty! Dried flower weddings in autumn and winter 2024 here we come... watch this space for updates as we get organised!

25/11/2023

https://www.tuckshopflowers.com/index.php/fresh-evergreen-christmas-wreath-birmingham/

Today's twinkly frosts remind us all that it's nearly December and my workshop is piled high with evergreens in readiness for wreath making season. Want the wildest door in town this year? Order yours via my website (see link above) before 11th December.

There are still a couple of places left on my workshops if you want to try your hand at making your own here at Tuckshop Flowers (my workspace is smelling amazingly Christmassy already!) - see the link on my Christmas page for full dates and details.