Peonies and Jasmine at Preston Court

Long time no see! These next pictures courtesy of bride and fab photography by Tom Gold.
The wedding was earlier this year at Preston Court and the gorgeous church St Mildreds.

Beautiful bouquet of peonies and just peonies, so
simple and so lovely..

Generous pedestal at the church

 These pew ends had jasmine and ivy trails, the
scent was heady!

Pew Ends re tied onto the chairs
around the top table, looking fab

Posies for Floral Tea Dresses

Last week my bride had chosen gorgeous floral tea dresses for her bridesmaids, each a different floral
colour and pattern. VERY pretty (and could be worn again!) but what flowers to choose to go with these dresses?  Solution: lime green, white and green fluffy posies of summer annuals...

The bridal bouquet was slightly elongated in shape and used peonies, spray roses, rubus, astrantia and trachelium...The milk churns were placed outside the church then moved to the marquee, there was a nervous wait as they fairly billowed in the swi
rling wind gusts! The buttonholes were the gorgeous Pink O Hara garden style scented roses

Sharing what Ive picked up lately and been doing, have lovely pair of rustic urns for hire

This is a rose covered in plaster, its textural and gorgeous!

Summer bridal bouquet, love the nigella and the aniseed smelling yellow dill

Peony season is here in full swing











This vintage doll is displayed in an old cloche

Photoshoot at The George in Rye

What fun! what lovely ladies I met, fab hair and makeup artists, gorgeous frocks from Isabella Grace Bridal and the result? these beautiful photographs by the lovely and talented Claudine Hartzel

 Slightly boho vintage with a bold contrast of blue and orange, softened by blousy cream peonies and nude roses, oh and the odd succulent

A few of my Favourite Things

Definitely one of my all time favourites. I think its the combination of silvers with the palest pink and the inclusion of the divine white anemones with black centres for drama.





These pew ends looked so fresh and lovely. We moved them afterwards and placed them on the side tables in the Barons Hall at Penshurst Place.  Its the contrast of the white garden spray roses, with greeny white alstromeria and fresh box and hebe that does it!

I have to say this job was fabulously decadent. Having a client who appreciates the value of flowers in all ways and really wanted to make a statement in her marquee.

These two urns were bursting with roses and peonies with fresh english beech

Glorious bowls of roses and english peonies (direct from the farm) in shades of pink and cream. 

Its just a shame the tables werent set properly when I took these!! Definite wow factor here. On her top table Georgina had no less than 43 vases of all sizes filled with Sarah Bernhardt peonies, sweet avalanche and faith roses, sweet peas and cream peonies. Not one stem of foliage here

These peonies were so perfect, just look at the size and shape of them, perfect balls! Teamed with white hydrangea and majolica spray roses.






Dodged the showers to install this lovely long
garland at The Great Barn in Rolvendon, to compliment the rural setting I used lots of daisies,
stocks and spray roses

Bit of a different job for me here and I was very happy with the result, strong colours and some daintiness too at Cooling Castle

Beautiful David Austen Juliet roses with dusty miller and senecio foliages and creamy spray roses for Andrea at Leeds Castle





















FUN! craspedia ball buttonholes

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!