We caught up with florist and The Real Flower Company trade customer Kirstie Deane from Ruby & The Wolf to discover more about her style and inspiration and why choosing sustainable, seasonal British flowers is important to her. What inspired you to get into floristry? I used to work for Aardman (the animation company that makes the Wallace and Gromit...
Choosing the right flowers to express sympathy or condolences can be a daunting task, so to help simplify the process we’ve put together a quick guide. We’re also on hand to help – you can email our experienced customer services team on [email protected] or call us on 01730 818300. Is it best to play it safe and go for white...
DELIGHTFUL DAHLIAS Dahlias are now in bloom on our sustainable English farm and we’ve added an English Dahlia & Wildflower Bouquet and Dahlia, Rose & Wildflower Bouquet to our range. Did you know that Dahlia florets are often mistakenly called petals, even by horticulturists, but in fact every floret is a flower in its own right? Discover more about dahlias...
We’re Real One of the things we’re proud of at The Real Flower Company is that each and every one of our bouquets is lovingly hand arranged by one of our highly skilled florists rather than being thrown together on a production line. Here are two of our team who together have more than twenty years of experience in floristry...
This year marks our 20th anniversary and Rosebie, our founder, was clear from the start about how she wanted to celebrate. It had to be an installation in the Great Pavilion at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show – a first for us. Rosebie really wanted to share the story of our flowers from farm to vase and spread the word...
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is probably the biggest event in the horticultural calendar and here at The Real Flower Company preparations are well underway to make sure our blooms are at peak condition for this year’s display. This year we’re celebrating our 20th anniversary and to mark the occasion we’ll be exhibiting in the main hall at the RHS...
May in Bloom To mark our 20th anniversary, we’re exhibiting in the Great Hall at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the first time! Expect the scent of our sustainably grown roses, English sweet peas, seasonal flowers and herbs to hit you before you even get to our display, which showcases the journey of our flowers from farm to vase...
Did you know that each of us has a birth flower – a particular bloom associated with the month of our birth in the same way as each month has its own birth stone? When recent research at The Real Flower Company revealed that bouquets created to celebrate a birthday are our most popular buy, we began to wonder how...
“I first visited the RHS Chelsea Flower Show with my mother Elspeth in 1980 and was hooked immediately by the skill and passion of the exhibitors and the perfection of the plants they were displaying,” says our founder and flower farmer Rosebie Morton. This year, we are celebrating twenty years of The Real Flower Company so Rosebie decided to commemorate...
Mother’s Day UK Mother’s Day (or more correctly Mothering Sunday) in the UK was traditionally a day when daughters working as domestic servants were given time off to return home to worship at their ‘mother church’ – and so the day became synonymous with the idea of family reunions. On their way home along springtime country lanes, the young women...
Over the last twenty years of growing scented English garden roses in our corner of the South Downs National Park in Hampshire, we’ve learnt a lot. But growing our roses naturally means we are very much in the hands of the Great British Weather. Despite careful planning we sometimes end up with a glut, and as we hate waste, our...