British Flower Week

I just had to share a link with you, this week is a celebration of British Flowers at New Covent Garden market with wonderful arrangements being made using a different flower every day.


British Delphiniums there is a stunning bridal creation here!
Seasonal bounty - British Foliage - from Hawthorn to silverleaf and everything inbetween
So Sweet Peas used on their own, delicious

Up a ladder again

Yes, up that ladder again to decorate the top of the door at Frant Church. This was tricky as I wasnt allowed to put any nails in, but there was a small ledge about twelve foot up in the air!
The bride had chosen a palette of purples, lavender, cool pinks with some blue. I added some white lilies to warm it up abit and used Pacific Blue and Sweet Avalanche roses, with purple stocks, blue scabious, green amaranthus and dill. The foliage was Beech and Ruscus although it was mainly flower.




The bride carried a bouquet using a base of palest pink hydrangea with pacific blue roses and lisianthus in lavender and deeper purple to compliment her bridesmaids aubergine dresses.

And after a day of pretty heavy rain the day before all was well and the sun shone.

English Flowers

Wow! the wedding season is in full swing so I havent managed to sit down for 3 weeks. I have just been working on the most wonderful wedding. We hired in an assortment of vintage cut glass vases and jugs which were filled with english country flowers. I used the most beautiful scented garden roses (fragile and nerve racking) teamed with nigella, hydrangea, the brides favourite peonies, astrantia and scabious amongst others. The flowers mostly came from Cornwall and the scent was sublime.

I must also welcome the latest member of the team, Sugar. She is a maltese x poodle and just totally adorable. So far she is very calm and seems to have a good nose for flowers loving rubbing herself along the lavender hedge in the garden!