Kilver court

These are just some of the pictures taken by Olivier Burnside from a photo-shoot that we were involved in at Kilver Court recently. It's a really rather fabulous venue with some stunning scenery. The directors room is perfect for the ceremony with big double fronted windows overlooking the gardens, creating almost twice the space. I believe it seats 60 and is a gorgeously intimate venue for a wedding ceremony. 

You will see from the top that we had great fun decorating the boat for the picture, that was taken just in front of the dovecote. We are doing a wedding for a gorgeous couple there in a few weeks so you will have to wait for the photo's. 

All in all it's a really rather lovely space, though quite frankly I'd just take the car. 

Much love. 

xx

Ps The dresses were by a very clever lady called Meryl Smart

Flowers {with a touch of pims}

Sara Bernhart peonies are the best

First pale blue scabious of the season

My first attempt at Strawberry pavlova

Robbie Williams extravaganza

My fabulous business partner & her best pal! 

As you can see the weekend involved flowers, food, pimms & Robbie.

{We drank the pimm's before I could take a photo, honest......}

What more can you want really! 

xx

A love for the home-grown

I thought I would do an update on how the garden is growing, as the last lot of photos I posted on here were pretty much bare earth, also a bit late but there was a fantastic celebration of British flowers at New Covent Garden Flower Market in London. Do check out their blog for the round up of all their news!

The garden is as they say fairly blooming, I am managing to pick a small posy of sweet-peas every morning. The dahlia's & snap-dragons are just beginning to flower so in a week or so I might just be able to create a small bouquet of flowers from this lot. 

I do take my hat off to flower growers in this country through, I know as a florist I can just send an email to my wholesaler with a list of all the flowers I want and they are there when I arrive. 

Growers in this country have a whole lot more fun dealing with British weather alone.......

xx

Saying it with flowers.

I always love the variety of ways people choose to show their feelings/appreciation for other people through flowers.

It was my Birthday on Saturday so I bought some of my favourite flowers, I think you can't help loving peonies & sweet-peas, the scent is just yummy.

Grown in my green-house

Would love to say I grew these.....

Texture ~ part two

As you can imagine our Shop was filled with fabulous smells last weekend as we put together this wedding. The colour palette was a soft lilac using the blue moon roses, lovely striking blue cornflowers, big scented ivory peonies and tall blue delphinium for in the Church. It all looked very fresh, summery & inviting. 

xx

Texture ~ part one

I tweeted a picture of these amazing origami birds when they arrived a couple of days before this couple's wedding.

Talk about dedication! This Bride was delightfully organised with her beautifully crafted creations.

I love the idea of texture within arrangements and how you create it. These bouquets were all about it, the Bride had fairly certain ideas about the flowers she wanted to use - so it was a real pleasure to help her realise the bouquets she was looking for.

Flower Selection

• Roses ~ Miss Piggy
• Bubble spray rose
• Ivory astrantia
• Green Bluperium
• Scabious seed-heads
• Eucalyptus
• Succulents

A vintage celebration

One thing I love with this job is we get to see such a huge variety of hotels, B&B's, private houses and just generally some gorgeous places! The bride stayed the night before at the Admiral's House which is a stunning Georgian House bang in the middle of Bath, but anyway enough about houses, let's talk flowers.....

The Bride had a bouquet of Illusion roses, with beautifully scented freesia, some ivory avalanche roses helped set the soft pinks off and a small amount of the palest pink bouvardia.

The ceremony was at Priston mill. For the reception we filled the cream jugs with hydrangea, roses and some gorgeous pale peach stocks (which are now nearly my favourite)

All around I'd say it was quite the celebration!!

xx