This is exciting news indeed!
We've been shortlisted as a finalist in the Sheerluxe online shopping awards. What's also lovely is that the finalists were voted for by the Sheerluxe customers.
If you'd like to vote for us please click the logo below and select The Real Flower Company in the drop down list of finalists. Thank you!

Closing date for voting is 20th September...

Our flowers were on show on the Nyetimber Pavillion at the Taste of London Festival in London's Regents Park, this week. We were invited to work with Nyetimber's winemaker, Cherie Spriggs, to put together 32 arrangements using our English grown garden roses and herbs which complimented the award winning English sparkling wines that she has produced. The stand look wonderful and was a little piece of Sussex in the centre of Regents Park!

We used the roses Gertude Jekyll, Chandos Beauty and Evelyn and the herbs variagated sage, lavender, oregano, peppermint and rosemary.

If you haven't tried Nyetimber's fabulous sparkling wine yet then I urge you to do so - they really are fabulous and produced from grapes grown on vines at the UK's largest vineyard estate, where Nyetimber is based, in West Chiltington, Sussex.

The Nyetimber pavillion was one of the most beautiful stands at the show according to the Hot Dinners website ...and the flowers get a mention too! There's a lovely article about the festival highlights on Eat Like a Girl blog scroll down to see a great photo of Nyetimber's stand with our flowers. The stand was described as one of the 'prettiest' at the festival.

I was at Cowdray Walled Garden yesterday doing a mini shoot with the photographer Lisa Devlin whose work I love. She has photographed our flowers before at a gorgeous wedding at Cowdray Walled Garden.

This little shoot was to capture a lovely backdrop for us to use on our RHS Chelsea Flower Show stand. We're featuring a little wedding table and we wanted it set against a gorgeous garden.

I am so delighted to have received an invitation to the private view of the artist Penny White's extraordinary flower paintings at the John Martin Gallery in Albermarle Street, London this evening.

Penny White has organised this exhibition herself in order to raise money for the wonderful Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres which are totally reliant on private funding.
John Martin has gifted his gallery space in Mayfair for the exhibition and Penny will be donating the first £5000 of sales and thereafter half of all sales directly to the charity.

The roses in her paintings were grown on our Hampshire farm so I have sent a large bouquet of our roses and herbs over to the gallery today to help dress the space for the press and private view this evening.

Of her own work Penny says

Curiously, I do not think of myself as a 'flower painter', I am only interested in representing the flower. I try to paint the ephemeral quality of the flower, its soul, its scent, its colour, its pattern, its eroticism, that transient quality that for me is the flower.

The exhibition runs between 30th March and 10th April 2010, although it's closed for Easter between 2nd and 5th April.

Truly inspirational and worthwhile.

Simply beautiful.
Photographing roses is a joy!

Beautiful isn't it? Scented roses cascading down the candleabra...

What a lovely post about our Mother's Day Collection from Ryan's Garden blog! www.ryansgarden.co.uk

Click on the image to see The Real Flower Company's Mother's Day Collection...

Farbridge is a fabulous, luxurious venue in the heart of the West Sussex countryside and, if you're looking for the perfect venue for a wedding or event, this is it.

Farbridge has been created from a complex of old barns on the West Dean estate (the West Dean Estate is facinating take a look at the website www.westdean.org.uk)

In the lea of the South Downs with beautiful views all around, Farbridge has a capacity for 60 to 150 guests and is licensed for civil ceremonies and partnerships. With ample parking and ten double en-suite rooms Farbridge is a very high quality blank canvas and with a list of recommended, (and excellent) caterers, vintners and florists (including our good selves!) only your imagination will stop you from creating a perfect event. Visit their website to find out more www.farbridge.org.uk