Home & Interior

Rockett St George’s brilliantly curated online homeware emporium is a fabulous Aladdin’s cave of Christmas decorations that dare to be different. Queens of quirky Jane Rockett and Lucy St George set up the company a few years ago after they met at a fancy dress party and discovered they both loved hunting through car boot sales and antiques fairs to...

We’ve followed the work of best-selling author, TV presenter, charity campaigner and farmer Liz Earle for many years, impressed not only by her inspirational ideas about natural beauty and nutrition but also by her support for The Sustainable Food Trust and The Soil Association. Several years ago Liz returned to her roots, converting a derelict dairy farm in the West...

At The Real Flower Company, we are passionate about roses – which is why Sophie Conran’s Christmas table, decorated with posies of red and peach roses, rang a Christmas bell with us. Sophie’s crisp white Lingonberry or Winter Rose table linen provides the perfect backdrop for Christmas flowers and greenery, and we also love her seasonal recipes – from her...

We’ve looked on with wonder at the journey interior and prop stylist Tamsyn Morgans has taken in renovating her Victorian terrace house in Norwich, scouring flea markets then giving her finds a new lease of life to create a light, bright and comfortable home that effortlessly mixes modern and vintage. Here, Tamsyn shares her tips and ideas for styling your...

Created for us by Lindsay Radcliffe from Linday’s Feast (lindsaysfeast.com) As the nights draw in and the days get colder, it’s the perfect time to invite some friends over for a cosy and relaxing home-cooked meal. There’s nothing worse than spending hours slaving over the stove while my guests have all the fun. I’m something of a lazy host, and...

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...

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...

Six Easy Gift-Wrapping Ideas Using Seasonal Scented Flowers, Foliage, Herbs & Berries We've just enjoyed our first mince pie of the season and having just put together these quick and easy DIY festive gift-wrapping ideas we're starting to feel really quite Christmassy! Christmas at our Hampshire flower farm is always such a magical time of year. Our workshop is brimming...

Hygge is a Danish word that we Brits have fallen entirely in love with this Winter. It does not translate exactly into English, but Hygge (pronounced hue-gah) describes a feeling or mood that comes with taking genuine pleasure in making ordinary, every day things more meaningful, beautiful or special. Perfect. With cold winter evenings, never-ending depressing news stories and miserable...

Magnolia branches, with their first creamy buds, decked with twinkling silvered glass decorations, add the perfect festive finishing touch to the Christmas window in our new London florist. Christmas has come early to Chelsea Green. Our London florist, at 13 Cale Street in SW3, opened it's doors in September. “And we had our first wreath order back in October,” says...

This week we were lucky enough to sit down with the fabulous interior designer, cook, author and rose fanatic Sophie Conran. Sophie Conran Sophie, please tell us the importance of scented roses in you life and why you love them so much? Scented roses to me are quintessentially English and they embody the idea of the English summer - even...