October 2017

If you’d like to learn how to make a glorious natural Christmas door wreath using the most exquisite seasonal foliage, aromatic herbs and berries from our sustainable flower farms, then you’ve come to right place. And if you are unable hang a wreath on your door, you can learn how to make a striking Christmas table centrepiece using the same...

How to collect and preserve flowers and berries for winter and Christmas arrangements. Autumn is a wonderful time of year for foraging in the hedgerows. So I always try to tuck a pair of secateurs into my pocket when I go for a dog walk – it’s usually worth cutting something when you see it rather than returning to find...

As we head into the colder mornings, darker evenings and familiar crunch of leaves underfoot our sustainable farm in Hampshire takes on a different colour palette. Some of our roses are still producing beautiful blooms, especially the delicate and fabulously scented Margaret Merrill but looking around the flowers and foliage everything has taken on the gorgeous hues of copper, orange...

What is #realflowersoftheseason? This is a new hashtag competition that celebrates the wonderful variety of flowers that become available as we move through the seasons. As sustainable flower farmers we want to shake up the cut flower market by encouraging people to think about how their flowers have been grown and where they come from. That’s why we’ve been inspired...

  Shane Connolly holds two Royal Warrants and is globally renowned for designing the flowers for the wedding of Her Royal Highness The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. In his latest book, Discovering the Meaning of Flowers: Love Found, Love Lost, Love Restored, Shane re-introduces Floriography, also know as the language of flowers, in a way that makes it fresh...

“Ingredients that read like a gardener’s wish list” is how Rosebie, our founder and flower farmer, described Aurelia’s range of Probiotic Skincare. Working on a sustainable English flower farm, we are passionate about plants and nature so we’ve been fans of Aurelia’s natural but effective approach to skincare since the range launched. We caught up with Claire Vero, Aurelia’s founder...