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Arranging and Care of your Flowers

Every one of our floral creations is delivered beautifully arranged by our creative florists. But that doesn’t mean you can’t also try your hand at some fun floral arranging. Here is a beginner’s guide to floral vase arrangements so you can brighten up your home: Essential equipment  You will need: ... Continue Reading

October 10, 2024

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A spotlight on the roots of your house plants

The holiday season is coming to an end. It is a good time to give your house plants a little tender loving care before their growth slows down for the winter. The days are already noticeably drawing in and plants need sunlight to repair and grow. By the term ‘house plants’ I include both flowering and foliage plan... Continue Reading

September 09, 2024

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September in the Garden

September in the Garden    For nature, in the garden, Autumn is a time for sowing and scattering seeds. Flowers and plants have been growing all summer and most are starting to fruit. The gardener likes to collect their bounty and celebrate how well the earth has rewarded their toil.    Plants like to spr... Continue Reading

September 08, 2024

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Your Garden To-Do List This Autumn

Have you ever wondered why we hang Christmas wreaths on our front doors? It isn’t just to make your door look festive. Christmas wreaths have been fashionable in the UK since the Victorian times but the evergreen wreath has a far longer history than that. An ancient custom Pre-Christian Germanic tribes used wreaths in the ... Continue Reading

August 14, 2024

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Choosing your wedding flowers

Every bride wants stunning flowers at her wedding, it’s the part that everyone remembers. An experienced florist can translate your wedding theme into bouquets and floral arrangements to surpass your imagination and expectation. They can also advise about which alternative seasonal flowers are available to help keep costs... Continue Reading

July 09, 2024

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Caring for your Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia) Flower

Caring for your Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia) Flower The Bird of Paradise bud reveals one floret at a time as it matures on the plant. This distinctive and complex flower lies hidden in a beak-like sheath that protects each floret as it matures. The flower has curves, angles and contrasting colours that creates a unique, artist... Continue Reading

April 30, 2024

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Window Boxes A practical guide to get the maximum joy for everyone.

Window Box A window box is a joyful and colourful addition to your garden or outside space at any time of the year. They do not have to be big or expensive as window boxes can be used all year round and time and again, providing you care for them. However, their splash of colour but can make an enormous impact at little cost. Wi... Continue Reading

April 30, 2024

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Late Spring in the Garden

The cheerful spring colours of daffodils, mimosa, anemones, and primulas and the contrasting white snowdrops are almost over, and we start to see the more fragrant, softer pinks through blues to lilac flowers of Cherry Blossom, Bluebells and Syringa with the backdrops of new, fresh green leaves. Your late Winter/early Spring flo... Continue Reading

March 31, 2024

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Mother's Day

Mother’s Day is a day that we honour and recognise the invaluable contribution to our lives that our mothers have made. It is celebrated in many countries all over the world on different dates. E.g in  8th March is International Mother’s Day;  Australia, New Zealand, much of Europe and US, it’s alwa... Continue Reading

February 29, 2024

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Winter Containers

Planting pots for all year-round colour No doubt the plants in your pots will have died off even though we haven’t had a hard frost yet. Have you refreshed your containers for this season yet? November is a good time, if you haven’t done so already, to get out on a fine day to revitalise them with plants that will st... Continue Reading

December 31, 2023

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Creating a Stylish Indoor Plant Display

We recommend going for a mixture of older and less mature plants to add variety to the plant collection that you are amassing. The advantage of this is that when your plants become pot bound and need repotting, you will only need to get the largest sized pots and can then use the pot for the next one ready to get into a new pot.... Continue Reading

November 30, 2023

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Best House Plants for Purifying the Air in Your Home

We have chosen the best indoor plants that will extend the greenery from your garden into your home whilst bringing all the health and mood boosting benefits of nature into your interior. We have focused on the plants that breathe in the harmful chemicals that are released over time from our flooring, walls and fire-retardant fa... Continue Reading

October 31, 2023

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How Flowers Can Lift Your Mood

There is something about the feeling you experience when someone gives you a bouquet of flowers. Your partner showing you they have thought about you, care or have taken the time to choose your favourites. A friend showing that they love you. A colleague expressing their thanks or congratulations. Or even flowers to show that so... Continue Reading

September 30, 2023

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