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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It’s that time of year again and Halloween is becoming more and more of a special event. This year, we are putting our very own floral spin on the spooky evening. Pumpkin Decoration Our Real Flower Pumpkin has been admired all week by the team and all of the visitors to our Hampshire workshop. Here is your step-by-step guide to...