Flowerona Reflects: succulents & splashbacks

This week, I thought I’d start with a beautiful image by Georgianna Lane to brighten up your day.

It features my very favourite ranunculus blooms in a really unusual shade of pale peach.

My week

The first full working week and there have been lots of highlights…in particular the stunning wedding which I featured on Wednesday with six blog posts!

Monday & Tuesday

Both were mainly stay at home days, dealing with emails and writing blog posts.

Wednesday

On Wednesday afternoon I travelled into London to go to the Marks & Spencer Spring Press Event.

It was lovely to meet Simon Richards who is the Flower Product Developer at M&S. With him, I made this narcissi topiary tree below.

It’s now sitting on my desk as I write and the scent is absolutely beautiful. It’s been very much admired by my husband too!

Simon also talked me through M&S’s new spring flowers collection which includes this beautiful Rose & Agapanthus Bouquet below.

If you’d like to learn more about the collection, here’s a short video below featuring Simon:

Thursday

On Thursday afternoon, I went to New Covent Garden Flower Market for a meeting.

From February, I’ll be writing their Flower Market Monthly Report which I’m thrilled about!

And if you’ve not seen it before, here’s January’s report.

Friday

Friday was mainly a stay at home day, trying to tackle my email inbox and write blog posts.

My afternoon was truly made when I received this gorgeous bouquet from Jane Packer Delivered!

Blog posts this week on Flowerona

My blog posts this week on Flowerona were :

• Interview with Nicola Rotton of Bloom and Blossom
• Book Review of Flowers by Carolyne Roehm
• BAOD – Wedding at The Savoy – Part 1 : Double Domes of Roses
• BAOD – Wedding at The Savoy – Part 2 : Hand-Tied Bouquets
• BAOD – Wedding at The Savoy – Part 3 : Chuppah
• BAOD – Wedding at The Savoy – Part 4 : Bridal Party Flowers
• BAOD – Wedding at The Savoy – Part 5 : Room of Light
• BAOD – Wedding at The Savoy – Part 6 : Banqueting Room
• Beautiful new spring collection from Jane Packer Delivered
• Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’…a pretty & scented shrub

The most popular blog post this week was ‘Wedding Flowers Inspiration : Wedding Chicks Blog’…all thanks to the power of Pinterest.

Guest blog post

On the Heart Home blog, I featured ‘Beautiful floral-inspired splashbacks from Emma Britton’.

So, that’s what I’ve been up to this week.  Thank you so much for all your comments on my blog posts, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.  I really appreciate it!

This weekend, I’m looking forward to keeping warm in front of our wood-burner, as well as hoping to go to the cinema to see Les Miserables.

And I hope you have a lovely weekend too…

Do pop back tomorrow for my new blog post series called Flowerona Links, which proved to be very popular last week!

(Images : Georgianna Lane, Rona Wheeldon for Flowerona, Wedding Chicks/Leila Peterson, Emma Britton)