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Naturally bleached seedheads in amongst Sweet Annie and green/grey Bracken, dried before it turned brown. On a black willow ring. All grown and dried here, by me. A bit subtle maybe, and would be better on a different backdrop, but an exposed brick wall was to hand and it was blowing a gale outside. Wasn’t sure about it at first, but this one has grown on me. Happy Sunday everyone, hope it is a calm and peaceful one.
Experimenting with colours, textures, using up bits of dried stuff left after the last of our workshops. And there isn’t very much left!! Loads of people choosing to mix in dried and fresh stems this year, adding layers of detail and interest. And one who brought her own green plastic dinosaurs 😁😂😂🦖🦖
Teeny stocks planted out this week. But what colour? This dilemma is what we’ve been covering on Module 4 of The Business of Growing Flowers on-line course @businessofflowers. They’re mainly destined for weddings, so lots of white, palest pink, apricot still. But this year there are more yellow, lavender, purple. No mid pink. Only time and orders will tell me if I was right or not. But wouldn’t it be boring if every year was the same?! What do you reckon about wedding colours this year?
It’s starting to look a bit like spring! Well, we have to be forward looking, as we head towards the deepest part of winter. These will carry on flowering whatever the weather throws at them ✨🌱✨🌱
Eyes down..... Yesterday’s wreath workshops were the last at Emma Bridgewater for this year. And the very last one was the biggest group. We were joined by some superstars too. The very lovely Sarah Statham @simplybyarrangement and Elizabeth @faffing.with.flowers. And if that weren’t enough to worry about, we were also joined by the Thinking Woman’s favourite, Sue Perkins and Anna Richardson. It was a very free-form class, using willows, birch, the pick of my fresh and dried material, and @vvrouleaux velvet ribbons. And involved standing on one leg, at times! The wreaths they all produced were so varied and creative, it was amazing to see. Fortunately I had the expert and kind support of Pam of @quirky.flowers. A distant photo of the room, one of the old factory studios. Sorry, but I wasn’t going to do any selfies and felt I couldn’t intrude on everybody’s bit of creative time to get closer pics.
Oh, go on then, another wreath class photo - the loveliest, happy, chatty group of mums and daughters here in our twinkly Garden Room yesterday. We had to do a second batch of mulled wine 🍷😁😁
Gorgeous photo by @shanewebberphotography of Vicki and James at #abbeywoodestate a couple of weeks ago. Flowers all homegrown, plus a very few imported hellebores with longer stems than my own. Beautiful couple and gardens too ✨
Today is tulip planting. But first, we need to lift the chrysanths and clear the beds. I do like an immediate change-over of beds - out with one crop, in with the next. Our tunnels are valuable space, so we manage them pretty tightly. Sweet peas are ready to go in too. Good thing we’ve got 3 of us working today. First day in the fields for a couple of weeks, so it’ll be good to get back out there. Anyone else not doing Christmas wreaths today?!!
I keep forgetting to take pictures during the workshops I’m doing with @emma_bridgewater factory. Just too focussed on the people making their wreaths. And I really don’t like making people line up for a photo, unless they’ve asked me to take one for them. So this is as much as I managed yesterday. After lunch, ready for the second group of the day. The morning was traditional foliage wreaths on mossed frames. The afternoon was willows and birch. All grown in Cheshire or Stoke itself. Sustainable and natural as can be. Not a bauble or lotus head to be seen. But lots of lovely home and locally grown foliage and dried flowers and seed heads. And copious amounts of tea from the very friendly and helpful cafe team!
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