Flower guides
Dried Flower Guides
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.