Big, beautiful and blowsy, hydrangeas are at their absolute best in the garden at the moment. Their bold cauliflower like heads, although reminiscent of old fashioned cottage gardens, are equally at home in modern surroundings and designs.
Fully coloured hydrangeas are greenish and have hints of other colours within; these types are known as ‘classic’. They are characterised by their long vase life and are ideal for drying.
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Although most flowers will thrive on hot, sunny days there are times when really dry spells can leave your plants looking a little tired.
Our guide will help you keep your plants at their healthiest during the summer…
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It was scissors at dawn for the cream of young European florists at Tatton Park Flower Show, fighting it out to become the Young European Florist of the Year.
Floristry doesn’t get more cutting edge than this.
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If you could pick just four words that summed up this year’s RHS Hampton Court Flower Show, then they would be Shakespeare, roses, and vintage style.
Hampton Court is justly famous for its roses and in the Midsummer Rose Festival you could wallow in banks of beautiful scented roses against a background of figures in impressive Tudor costumes, all on loan from the Royal Shakespeare Company….
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Just in case you hadn’t noticed, Mother’s Day (or Mothering Sunday as some prefer to call it) is fast approaching.
This is the busiest week in the florist’s year, an event almost bigger than Christmas and Valentine’s put together….
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Incredibly, Valentine ’s Day has already been and gone.
It was a quieter one for us than normal at the shop, mainly due to the fact that it fell on a Sunday, so our deliveries and workload was spread out over two days….
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Spare a thought for us hard working florists this weekend, who instead of having a well deserved lie in on Sunday, will be up – before dawn most likely – busily arranging and delivering your Valentine’s flowers….
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Well what a way to start the New Year – with inches of snow, minus temperatures and road closures.
Well done to all the florists out there who are still managing to deliver flowers in what can only be described as challenging circumstances….
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Well, my very first blog for Interflora, and what a great time of year to start, with Christmas just around the corner and the shops positively bursting with all things festive…..
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