Bude Botanical

07/03/2025

Dreaming up June weddings today for next year's couples. Always good to flick through gorgeous photos from recent June weddings so I can get my head back into the summer months. I adored this colour palette chosen by Cerian & Tom who married in the beautiful walled garden at in June 2024. Captured so beautifully by

06/03/2025

Spring flowers feel like symbols of hope to me. Hope that light follows darkness, and hope that we carry on; repeating patterns, repeating love stories, and repeating the lives of those who travelled this way, just a little way ahead of us.

This arrangement was made to help a family say goodbye and included all locally grown foliage and little pops of colour, with the first of the season's stocks, tulips and anemones.

25/02/2025

Our latest blog post is all about why we love flowering at the beautiful

https://budebotanical.com/2025/02/wedding-flowers-at-launcells-barton/

If you're looking for a wedding venue for 2026 then are having an Open Day on Sunday 23 March where you can meet recommended suppliers (we'll be there!), see the venue styled, all while enjoying a glass of fizz. To book your appointment, head over to the website...
https://launcellsbarton.co.uk/viewings/open-day/

Gorgeous photo of Rosie & her maids, captured by in the beautiful walled garden 🌿🌿🌿

20/02/2025

Some kind words from some of my gorgeous 2024 couples.

Before we know it, the 2025 season will be underway, and we're already booking in weddings for 2026. I love, love, love flowering your special days.

Thank you, as always, to everyone who supports this little business of mine xx

15/02/2025

A joyful way to spend a Saturday morning...making everlasting meadow boxes with this wonderful gang of floral faffers. We had a mindful morning of creating beautiful things while chatting and catching up. Such a lovely way to start the weekend. Thank you for growing and drying such beautiful treasure 🌿🌸🌿🌸 and to Naomi at for organising

12/02/2025

Looking forward to being part of this lovely Open Day at Launcells Barton - a much loved wedding venue, just down the road from our studio, where we work regularly with our fantastic couples. If you have a 2026 wedding in mind then do book your space on what is set to be a lovely event x

🩶Looking to get married in 2026? Join us for our Open Day on Sunday the 23rd of March!

•Meet suppliers, see the venue styled throughout and chat through catering options with our caterers!

The event is by appointment only, so please book a time slot via our website! - See you there!

01/02/2025

In the depths of winter, we try to use as much of what is growing around us, in order that our floral arrangements make the smallest impact on our glorious environment.

For this farewell arrangement we collected h**e and viburnum for our beautiful collection of gardens here in Bude. Both are flowering at the moment, in a small, non-showy, wintery kind of way.

We also included rosemary from our herb beds, also in flower at the moment and symbolic of remembrance.

Locally grown p***y willow and tonnes of pittosporum were also used. They are both beautiful and abundant at this time of year.

All flowers were grown locally and supplied by . We love to use brassicas at this time of year, because they look like roses, but don't need to be flown in from across the planet. Pops of colour were incorporated with the first of the season's tulips, still needing a bit of love and heat to get them flowering in January, and, of course, some Scilly grown narcissi, because they are so beautiful and so in season right now.

Grateful to the families I work with for putting their trust in me and my desire to work seasonally, with the environment held front and centre in my work; helping them to mark the enormously significant days in their lives with the beautiful things that grow around us.

17/01/2025

Beauty is more tricky to find in January. But it's still there, if we look hard enough...

Table runners...

🌿 Arranged in moss, recycled and reused from this year's Christmas wreaths, returned to us by customers.
🌿 Foliages from our garden,(pittosporum & viburnum).
🌿 Flowers grown locally, by (paperwhites, sweet william, tulips, brassica, ageratum).
🌿 Dried bits and bobs...nigella heads and bracken, saved from the bounty of last year's growing season, and used here to add interest and texture

13/01/2025

I adored the colours that Debbie & Dom chose for their wedding day at back in August. Such a lovely couple to work with and we're so lucky to have our studio just down the road from this beautiful wedding venue.

Some kind words received from Debbie...

"My husband and I were so thrilled with the flowers produced by Rachel at Bude Botanical for our wedding. Her work is stunning, gorgeous and locally grown and sourced. Rachel was a pleasure to work with. Her knowledge and ideas were really helpful and her input was invaluable when planning our various floral displays".

We used locally grown flowers and foliage as well as some beautiful sustainably sourced imported roses for this wedding.

📷

06/01/2025

How lovely to be back in the studio today and to find out I have been shortlisted for a award!

"The Sustainable Influencer award recognises an individual that has promoted sustainability to both the couples they work with and suppliers within their network. They will have shown an unwavering determination to put sustainability at the heart of their business, educating and inspiring others to make more conscious choices."

As so many of you know from working alongside me - my amazing couples, growers, suppliers, venue owners, wedding professionals and freelance colleagues - Bude Botanical is a planet positive floral design studio. Protecting the planet is at the heart of our business and our goal is to provide flowers that have as light an environmental footprint as possible. We never stop banging on about it, because we feel it is so important.

I would bloody love it if you could cast me a vote in this category. It would be so, so nice to be recognised for the work I do around sustainability. The closing date for votes on 17 January

https://sustainableweddingalliance.com/sustainable-wedding-awards/ -influencer

Thanks so much, Rach xx

02/01/2025

Kitty & Joe's amazing wedding day at captured perfectly by

This fantastic couple were a joy to work with. We designed everything using the most beautifully locally grown flowers.

It still blows my mind that the majority of wedding day flowers are unnecessarily flown in from all over the planet, when such beauty grows just down the road. Thank you so much Kitty & Joe, and all my 2024 couples for going all in on planet positive wedding flowers.

You can read all about our approach to sustainability by heading to the links in our bio.

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.
Robert Swan, Author

13/12/2024

When you make a door swag for someone else but you can't bear to take it off your door to give it to them. Yeah, this is where we are at this morning folks. 🌿🌿🌿

11/12/2024

A gorgeous afternoon spent with the gang. We made A LOT of Christmas wreaths today, and every single one was utterly beautiful 💕🌿💕🌿

03/12/2024

Pretty in pink 🌸🌿

Finishing off a few Christmas commissions this week before we get stuck into the next round of workshops 🌿🌿

Tomorrow is a workshop prep day as I've got a couple of days away from the studio planned this week and so time is a little bit tight. I'll be spending the day ✂️🌿✂️🌿✂️🌿 making sure we have the most gorgeous foliage for your creations this weekend.

We use 100% locally grown foliage for our wreaths, as well as dried goodies, saved from the summer and autumn garden. Our bases are made with locally grown willow and sustainably collected moss and this year we are also trailing some compostable ribbon too, ensuring your wreaths as are sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible. 🌿🌿🌿

03/12/2024

It's hard not to miss the summer when photos like this from the super talented drop into your inbox.

Lucy & Sam married on a beautifully warm and sunny day back in August at the stunning

We all loved this colour palette, chosen by the bride and groom and delivered with 100% locally grown flowers.

So in love with how British grown flowers add such a wild and natural feeling to our arrangements, how they smell so good too, and how they massively help reduce the carbon footprint of your wedding day.

Grown, as always, by the dream team of and and little bits and bobs from our own little cutting garden too 🌿

Photographer
Hair by
Make up .makeup
Flowers
Dress

01/12/2024

November snaps.

There's still beauty to be found, even in the cold, grey months.

1. Doorstep winter planters for some of my regular customers
2. Catching the last of the above 10 degrees sea pool temperatures
3. Collecting dried beauty ready for Christmas wreath making.
4. Making farewell arrangements, in almost, almost 100% British grown
5. Collaborating with fellow flower lovers on new compostable bases for my arrangements
6. Gathering, gathering, gathering for all my December wreath makers

28/11/2024

We now have over 70 of you lovely people booked onto one of our winter workshops this December. We'll all be making stunning wreaths, packed with locally grown greenery, carefully collected seed heads as well as dried flowers and grasses. As usual, it's going to be really bloody lovely seeing you all, and providing you with the best that nature has to offer at this time of year, with sustainability right at the top of the agenda.

And for those of you who can't come along, but who would still love a wreath to adorn your door, then we will be beavering away making this small but perfectly formed collection of luxurious circular celebrations of the winter months (pictured here). We have made three designs and given them suitably festive names, and when I get a spare second tomorrow, I will pop them all up on the website for you to order.

Thanks as always for all the support from my little planet positive floristry business. I do love this time of year and gathering the most beautiful things to celebrate the changing of the seasons in our cosy winter homes 🌿

14/11/2024

September pastels for Charlotte on her wedding day.

I struggle to pick a favourite colour palette, but there's something about peachy, pinky tones with tiny pops of blue, which set my heart racing.

As I work predominantly with in season, locally grown flowers, I often tell my couples that we don't promise to include specific flowers in your wedding day arrangements (as the British weather which provides their growing conditions can be a fickle and wily beast), but what we can promise is that your wedding day flowers will be utterly beautiful and that they will be much kinder to the planet than their imported counterparts.

We love using what grows here, down the road, in our beautiful county, rather than flying blooms in from across the globe.

We're also discovering that using locally grown flowers gets such a positive reaction from all your wedding day guests. We never get tired of hearing all the lovely things they say to us when we're setting things up, or when we come back the following day to clear everything away. They really are such a lovely talking point and we adore providing them for your special day.

📷