Tuesdays are gardening days and there's no nicer place to be on a wet day than getting things done in one of the polytunnels. 1st batch of ranunculus planted out 🌱 Indoor Snapdragon seedlings planted out 🌱 1st sowing of sweet peas planted out 🌱. Good to get these things done and keep them tucked up through the next few months so they are ready to bloom as soon as spring arrives ☀️🌸
For S & C last Saturday and their wonderful families ☀️
Wow what a difference a week makes - September can be so fickle. Glorious sunshine for this lovely couple, and breathtaking views from the marquee looking over the Dorset countryside. As the sun had been out we were able to use much more summery flowers (the cosmos, sweet peas and zinnia had largely been ruined by the rain the previous weekend for those weddings). We had sumptuous baskets and urns in the church, hops and DIY flowers in the marquee and bouquets and flowers crowns for the bridal party. Congratulations to you all 🤍💚🌸
R A I N ☔
It's been a difficult week weather-wise and I have such sympathy for my couples this week, I don't imagine that 3 days of endless downpour was in their perfect plans. However, as I heard recently 'a wet knot is harder to undo' which rather a sweet thought about rain on one's wedding day.
The garden is bashed, the flowers are soggy, I have been soaked to the knickers at least 3 times in as many days. September can be a month of such contrasts - searing heat (this weekend last year) or torrential rain like now.
Nevertheless I'm pretty sure the weather won't get in the way of the party spirit that is underway across Dorset right now.
This is Faith's bouquet outside the beautiful church of Folke that we flowered up 🌿🌸...
Congratulations to C and B who are marrying this afternoon at @threetunsevents with a palette of delicate flowers in soft femine colours. It all looks absolutely glorious on this sunny August day and I am so happy for them all.
In C's bouquet - garden roses, dahlias, cosmos, snapdragons, didiscus, scabious, delphinium, sweetpeas and more!
Big shout to Rebekah and her marvellous team who have been working so hard to get it all perfect for them.
So lovely to welcome the brilliant team at @4couturestudio to the farm for a summer centrepiece workshop. I have run a Christmas wreath making workshop for the team a few times, but yesterday was the first time they have been to the farm and cut fresh flowers to use!
And what amazing arrangements they made 💕💥. It's always so interesting to see what people pick when they are let loose with scissors and bucket in hand... We had everything from controlled pure white centrepieces (not even any foliage) to huge meadow explosions with a bit of pretty much everything.
It was a brilliant morning full of laughter, cake, much adoration of Juno the #goldenretriever and lots of flowers!
Thanks 4 Couture team! 🤍💚🧡💙💜💛🩵🩶🩷
I don't feel like there's time to breathe at this time of year, let alone post on social media. So here's a quick summary of what we've been up over the last week or so.... Mainly a lot of flowers, trees, cutting, making, setting up, running workshops....💚🌸🌿💐and not much sleeping (or desk work...sorry to everyone who is waiting for something from me...it will come, I promise).
C O M B I N E D W O R K S H O P S 🌸🎨
What a great day!! ☀️☀️ I teamed up with the brilliant @charlieclapp_artist and the lovely ladies who came today picked their own flowers this morning for a June centerpiece and this afternoon got to work doing watercolour studies of their flowers. What amazing talent they showed and what a great group of people to spend time with. 🌿
It was the first time I have run a combined workshop but it worked brilliantly so there will be more!
I N P R O G R E S S ...
It's the first incredibly busy weekend of the wedding season here. We spent yesterday cutting thousands of stems (much of the day in the rain 😫) and today sorting stems/making bouquet orders/handing over party flowers /putting recipe buckets together and setting up some of our beautiful big birch trees for a marquee at @warmwell.house
We have a variety of events this weekend but the garden has provided thousands and thousands of stems so far, and the rest to be picked tomorrow at dawn before we make up the rest of all the pieces. ✂️💚🌸💕🌿
