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Dried Flower Guides

Eco

Lower Impact Wedding Flowers: What Actually Matters

What really drives the footprint of event flowers, where dried genuinely helps and where it does not, and the questions to ask your florist.

Gifting

Wedding and Event Flower Gifts: What to Give and When

Thank you gifts for bridesmaids and mothers, favours guests take home, and gifts for the couple. Why dried suits flowers given around an event.

Weddings

Planning Dried Wedding Flowers: A Step by Step Timeline

You have chosen dried flowers for your wedding. Here is what to decide and when, what to bring to the consultation, and the logistics couples forget.

Guide

Dried or Fresh Wedding Flowers? How to Split Your Day

Which parts of a wedding suit dried flowers, which suit fresh, and how to run both in one scheme without it looking like two weddings.

Guide

Pampas Grass for Weddings: Scale, Shedding and Photographs

What to know before putting pampas in an arch or aisle. How much you need, how it sheds, how it photographs, and when it is the wrong choice.

Care

Keeping Your Wedding Flowers Afterwards: A Care Guide

What to do with your flowers in the days after the wedding, how to keep a bouquet for years, and how to split one into keepsakes for family.

Styling

Styling Dried Flowers in a Venue: Scale, Light and Logistics

How dried flowers work across a room rather than a shelf. Table heights people can talk over, venue lighting, fixings rules and moving pieces.

Care

Dried Flowers That Smell Amazing: What Actually Holds Scent

Most dried flowers barely smell. Here are the ones that genuinely do, how long the scent lasts, and how to get more from a bunch you already have.

Fresh Flower Guides

Occasions

Fresh Flowers for Every Occasion

Honest advice on choosing fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, thank yous, get well and new baby, from our Hampshire florists.

Weddings

Fresh Wedding Flowers: A Practical Guide

What wedding flowers you actually need, when to book, and how the season shapes your budget. Practical advice from florists with decades behind them.

Seasonal

What Fresh Flowers Are in Season? A UK Month by Month Guide

The UK flower year month by month: spring tulips and peonies, summer sweet peas, autumn dahlias and winter amaryllis, and how to buy well in each season.