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...
Interior designer and stylist Holly Wick of Holly’s House is a self-confessed modern and vintage junkie. Holly is equally at home scouring Ardingly Antiques Fair at 6am in the pouring rain as she is working with designers and craftspeople to create something completely new and unique. Holly relocated from West London, close to our London florist in Chelsea Green, to...
A Foodie Destination We’re proud to call Chelsea Green – a destination for food-lovers that boasts a wonderful sense of community – our London home. We opened the doors of our London flower shop just over a year ago. Our aim was to offer Londoners a green alternative by bringing our finest scented roses and seasonal flowers, herbs and foliage...
Studies of reactions to gifts of flowers undertaken at Rutgers University, New Jersey, concluded that flowers elicit true happiness in 100 per cent of the people who receive them. We put this theory to the test and asked Facebook if you like receiving flowers for Christmas. Your comments delivered a resounding yes vote (95%)! Two respondents said no to flowers...
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...
At The Real Flower Company we’ve always tried to do things differently, growing flowers as nature intended – with scent (and thorns) – in a way that respects and works in harmony with the environment. We’ve long admired the exquisite prints and style of Cabbages & Roses but it was only when we met a couple of months ago that...
Part of the pleasure of Christmas is, of course, in the anticipation – and nothing heightens the excitement of the countdown to Christmas as much as an Advent Calendar. We can all remember the thrill of opening those little doors or windows each morning when we were children and knowing that each time we were one sleep nearer the...
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...