Daisy Works

Last week I spent a couple of fretful hours cutting and packing some of my home-grown amaryllis to be posted off to fellow Flowers From The Farm member Toria Britten, who was off to London to create floral displays for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018 Press Conference. As part of a team, they created the most beautiful displays of British-grown flowers, including my amaryllis. So exciting! Flowers from the Farm are a cooperative group of growers & florists with a commitment t

Even on this very dull & grey January day, there are signs of spring outside everywhere - the hazel and alder catkins are there, dangling in the breeze, the snowdrops are up, the deliciously fragrant winter honeysuckle is in bloom and there are hellebore buds fattening. There are plenty of lovely inspiring flowers and foliage to be found out there, and I love this time of year. I completely embrace the changing of our seasons, and think it's completely magic that in just a fe

Last weekend we had great fun creating this Mistletoe Tree for Liz & Oliver's wedding at East Bridgford Hill. Made from branches & sustainably harvested moss (from Newcastle!) and adorned with an abundance of ivy & British-grown mistletoe, it was part of their woodland-styled wedding decorations. The staircase was decorated like a woodland floor with birch logs, moss and pine cones, and sweetly fragrant white flowers of Cornish narcissi & Lincolnshire tulips. Fairy lights wer

New Year is traditionally a time when we look back at the past year & look forward to the next. 2017 was an exciting year for us creating flowers for wonderful weddings through spring, summer, autumn and winter. I've been looking back at photos and reminiscing, and would love to share some of these with you over the next weeks. Here are Laura's bouquet & buttonholes from early March last year, and it won't be long before we are back in March again - I'm already preparing for