🌸 Your chance to join in the fun and learn some new skills🌸
We’re thrilled that our Sustainable Floristry Course is making a return in 2025! Join us for six flower filled sessions, happening once a month on Wednesday evenings from April to September.
Expertly led by professional florist Louise Bradshaw, exploring sustainable floristry techniques. You’ll work with an abundance of seasonal British flowers and foliage grown and handpicked from our very own flower field.
📍 Venue: Our inspiring Flower Barn, just steps away from the flower field!
Here’s what you can look forward to:
🌼 Floral foam free installations
🌺 Low bowl arrangements
🍂 Seasonal wreath crafting
🌸 Intricate wiring techniques
🌼 Large urn displays
🌾 Meadow box creations
🌸 The chance to design a breathtaking floral arch!
Plus, enjoy guided tours of the flower field with me, where you’ll see firsthand how a flower farm operates. Discover how we select flowers for optimal vase life and gain insights that will help you when sourcing and using British flowers.
This course is ideal not just for those contemplating a career change, but for anyone passionate about flowers and eager to learn new skills. Spend an evening each month surrounded by our beautiful blooms, drawing inspiration from nature while enhancing your floristry knowledge. Whether you’re a budding enthusiast or looking to deepen your floral expertise, this experience is for you!
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🍂✨Autumn woven into a wreath✨🍂
🍁Inspired by Autumn🍁 Grown by us🍁 Created by us🍁 For you to enjoy🍁
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🌸💫BREAKING NEWS💫🌸
Last week I wrote that I was excited that we had a new member joining our little team so without further ado I am delighted to announce that Emma Kosy will be joining myself, Alex and Amy here at Lower Norton Flower Farm bringing a wealth of floristry experience with her.
Emma’s floral journey began in 2014 by completing her formal floristry training in Exeter, Devon. Following this, she worked in retail floristry before focussing on delivering special events and weddings. Having worked in Toronto, Devon and Hampshire, Emma has extensive experience of what works best in events ranging from small gatherings to large, bespoke weddings.
Emma will be focusing on developing Lower Norton Flower Farms floristry aspirations. With Emma’s extensive knowledge and floristry flair we will be offering a more comprehensive floristry service, including Bespoke Wedding Flowers, Event flowers, Farewell flowers and much more. We are so excited that Emma is joining us on Lower Norton Flower Farm’s flowering journey.
A few weekends ago we had our first experience of working together as a team. Flowering our gorgeous local church for a little photoshoot so that we could showcase our flowers. We are a small team and we always work closely together, Emma fitted right in, creating the most beautiful floral arch and overseeing the whole floral vision. It was a great opportunity for us to work together as a team, and most importantly Emma didn’t run ‘screaming for the hills’ having spent a few hours working alongside us so, I thought that was a pretty good sign!!
Photos taken by our very talented Alex.
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🍁Picked from our flower field: Rosa Champagne Moment, Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’, Cosmos Purity, Amaranthus ‘coral fountain’, Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Dart’s Gold’ and ‘Physocarpus ‘Diablo’.
Making the most of the flowers in the field whilst I still can. 🍁
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We packed in just about everything last week:
🌼Our first ceramic workshop with Sarah of @2spotsceramics - absolutely brilliant “that was the best thing I’ve done in ages!” in the words of one of our guests. We will definitely be welcoming Sarah back soon.
🌼Next up the 3rd part of our Sustainable Floristry Course with Louise Bradshaw @creativeflora Wiring was the topic, everyone seemed to do an amazing job of mastering what I find to be a very ‘fiddly’ job and one I prefer to leave to those more patient than myself! So well done everyone, I was impressed!
🌼Then flowers to be picked to fulfil wholesale orders, mostly flowers going to be used to ‘flower’ weddings.
🌼We also had our own wedding to flower. DIY flower buckets, Bride and Bridesmaid’s bouquets and lots of button holes too - more wiring, but very ably done by Amy @amyega21 , who is definitely far more patient than me!
🌼Whilst this was going on we also managed to crack on with the weeding and planting out of the last of our annuals for this year.
💫That’s all for now folk, I’m going to lie down for a bit and prepare myself for next week.
Happy Weekend.
Alison xx
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🌸A little ‘snapshot’ of what June has looked like so far here at LNFF🌸
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It’s a riotous jungle, a mass of colour and a vision of beauty. Just as well, as we’ve got a lot of flowers to pick for wholesale orders this week.
See you at the end of the week by which time I hope we have tamed our poly’s exuberance just a little and rediscovered the paths!
#flowersofinstagram #polytunnellife #flowerfarming #winchester #hampshire
Don't miss our upcoming POP-UP EVENT on June 8th! Join us for a delightful session of 'flower play' and create your very own Posy Jar with flowers hand-picked by myself and my team from our flower field. As it coincides with BRITISH 🇬🇧 FLOWER WEEK, we will be serving scones, cream, jam, and a nice mug of tea to make it a truly British affair. To find out more, visit our website www.lowernortonflowerfarm.com/events-1.
Last week was a busy one. Everyone seemed to want wedding flowers. Lots going out to our lovely florists for the weddings they were busy creating. We also had our own Micro wedding and visits from our 2025 Brides to talk about their wedding flowers.
As always, there's lots to do in the field. We’re still sowing seeds for this year but have also begun sowing for next year's flowers as well. We’ve got lots of planting out ahead of us to make sure we have a steady flow of flowers throughout this season.
Can you believe it? I've already received my first catalogue tempting me with tulip bulbs for this autumn!
Check out a fantastic workshop that we are hosting: Nature Journaling for Joy with HerOutdoorz on Wednesday, 26 June.
I can't wait for this Workshop! Even though I don't consider myself very artistic at all I'm very tempted to give this one a go. Journalling is a wonderful concept, of how to capture the true essence of the seasons in a creative and absorbing way that can be carried on at your leisure over the coming months, I think it could possibly become quite addictive!
That's all for now folks. Hope you are all enjoying this Bank Holiday Weekend.
Alison xx
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Occasionally we take the opportunity for what we call ‘Flower Play’ time. Essential not only for us to continue to test out different foam free techniques but also allowing us time to explore our own floristry style and experiment a little so we continue to develop too.
And then I had an idea 💡- how about we open up our flower studio for an informal ‘Pop Up Flower Play Session’ and invite all you lovely people to come and have a go at creating your very own low bowl flower arrangement.
We will provide the flowers, bowl and foam freemechanics and then leave the rest to you. Have a play, experiment and have fun. No pressure, this is intended to be an informal session, where you get to meet the LNFF team (inc Pip), spend some time in our gorgeous Flower Studio, feel inspired and create a seasonal low bowl arrangement to take home with you.
More details to follow in my next post on Monday so stayed tuned.
Alison xx
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Good morning
As I write this the sun is out and the Sparrows outside my window are in full song. What a difference a little sun makes, not sure it's going to last long this weekend, so l’m keeping this short so I can head outside and make the most of it whilst we've got it!
Have a lovely weekend whatever you are doing.
Alisonx
#myweek #flowerfarminglife #myday #localbusiness #localflowers
It was so good to be able to get out in the flower field this week in some much longed for sunshine.
I also enjoyed my first mug of coffee outside in the flower field in the sunshine for 2024, a simple thing but something that always brings me great pleasure.
Have a great weekend.
Alisonx
#flowerfarminglife #winchester #hampshire #dailylife
Beautiful, seasonal, scented flowers grown on our farm in Hampshire. Growing flowers for weddings, pyo, workshops, farewell flowers, gift bouquets and more.
