The Real Flower Company

  1. Recipe: Elderflower & Strawberry Layer Cake

    Recipe: Elderflower & Strawberry Layer Cake

    Created for us by Rowena Scott-Campbell from Grain + Feather We were hooked when we discovered Rowena Scott-Campbell from Grain + Feather’s dreamy Instagram gallery, filled with beautifully styled photographs of tea, cake, flowers and wonderful UK destinations including magical gardens and greenhouses. Rowena is also a passionate baker who takes her inspirations from the seasons. To celebrate British flower...
  2. Why flowers make people happy | British Flowers Week

    Why flowers make people happy | British Flowers Week

    In a recent study, 88% of people reported that the act of giving flowers made them feel happier.* “We liked the idea, but we also wanted to find out what effect giving flowers had on people for ourselves,” explains The Real Flower Company's managing director, Jane Hamilton. “Our British flowers usually have a superior scent to imported blooms, and we carefully...
  3. Best of British – our team pick their favourite English roses

    Best of British – our team pick their favourite English roses

    Monday 19 June marks the start of British Flowers Week, a campaign launched by New Covent Garden Flower Market to celebrate the wealth and variety of British cut flowers and foliage.   Here at The Real Flower Company, British Flowers Week is close to our heart. Our founder Rosebie Morton started growing her own roses in 1995 because she hated the...
  4. An award-winning year at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

    An award-winning year at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

    Real Flowers on the Radio The RHS Chelsea Flower Show started with our founder and flower farmer, Rosebie Morton, being interviewed by Chris Evans for BBC Radio 2. “The importance of buying locally grown English and Fairtrade flowers was talked about more than ever at Chelsea this year,” says Hana, our event designer. “People really want to know where their...
  5. Chelsea Green in Bloom

    Chelsea Green in Bloom

    Flower Safari The theme for this year’s Chelsea in Bloom competition is Floral Safari, inspired by adventure, discovery, exotic animals, savannahs and jungles. “We’re well known for the scented roses and English flowers from our farms, so when I heard the theme I was immediately excited,” says Catherine, our lead florist. “We have a Fairtrade sister Flower Farm in Kenya...
  6. Countdown to the 2017 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

    Countdown to the 2017 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

    Floral Safari 10th February As soon as ‘Floral Safari’ is announced as the theme for this year’s Chelsea in Bloom, our event designer Hana Moss grabs her sketchbook, pen and watercolours and sets to work. “The minute I heard about the brief I knew what we should do,” says Hana. “The Real Flower Company is known for our quintessentially English...
  7. News from our Kenyan flower farm Tambuzi

    News from our Kenyan flower farm Tambuzi

    Maggie Hobbs, and her husband Tim, own Tambuzi , a Fairtrade farm in Kenya, where they grow the scented garden roses, herbs and foliage that appear in our bouquets outside of English season. This year, our new florist shop is taking part in Chelsea in Bloom, and embracing the event’s Safari theme. Maggie will be providing us with stems to...
  8. The Real Flower Company & The Wedding Secret

    The Real Flower Company & The Wedding Secret

    The Wedding Secret We’re really enjoying our new London shop, if you have a free day, you should definitely pop over and take a look! Or, if you can’t quite make it into London, there’s now a new place online that you can use to find out all about us. As well as our lovely website, we are also currently...
  9. International Women's Day - An Interview With Rosebie Morton

    International Women's Day - An Interview With Rosebie Morton

    Wednesday 8th March 2017 is International Women's Day. A day to celebrate women's achievements, challenge bias and inequality, campaign against violence & champion women's education. This year's theme is #BeBoldForChange, encouraging everyone to help drive better outcomes for women around the world. Today, we have chosen to celebrate women's achievements, in particular, our founder Rosebie Morton's. A successful, passionate woman...
  10. Behind the scenes of Valentines

    Behind the scenes of Valentines

    It's nearly one of the busiest times in the calendar for a florist and we are getting ready for a big day here at our workshop in Hampshire and our shop in Chelsea. We started our preparation for Valentine’s Day in March 2016 with our florists designing our beautiful scented roses mixed with foliage and herbs from our English and...
  11. The art of making your own wreath

    The art of making your own wreath

    This week's inspiring blog post was written by the fabulous Bex Partridge who runs the wonderfully floral Instagram account @botanical_tales . The perfect place for flower lovers to feel inspired. Browse our Wreath Refill Posies in our Christmas flowers collection. I’ve always enjoyed making wreaths and floral displays, since the days when my mum used to fill our house with foliage at...
  12. Spiced Rosewater Christmas Biscuits

    Spiced Rosewater Christmas Biscuits

    Christmas seems to come earlier each year. So why not begin the celebrations with this recipe for our Nordic-inspired Spiced Rosewater Christmas Biscuits? Traditional Scandinavian Christmas biscuit recipes get passed down from generation to generation. These festive treats keep well, so they are perfect to have on hand for unexpected Christmas visitors. So easy to make, these attractive spiced and...

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