Many congratulations to The Real Flower Company on celebrating their 20th year anniversary with a Silver-Gilt Medal at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show! Here’s founder Rosebie Morton at a photocall on Press Day on Monday with three lovely lady Chelsea Pensioners. It’s the first time that Rosebie’s exhibited in the Great Pavilion. And her and her team had created…
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Festoon founder Charlotte Smithson has created a ‘stop-you-in-your-tracks’ floral installation at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Called ‘Come What May’, it’s a botanical suspension of individual stems of natural material. Inspired by countryside hedgerows, hanging glass test tubes have been filled with decorative displays of seasonal flowers, seed-heads, foliage and meadow grasses, carefully curated into clusters. I was completely…
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June in March are showcasing their stunning work again at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. It’s the second that they’ve decorated St Germain’s vintage truck. And what an incredibly beautiful installation it is! This year’s colour palette was a riot of vibrant shades of bright cerise pink, sunshine yellow and soft orange. Bougainvillea, peonies, roses, helichrysum, achillea, hydrangeas, poppies and…
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Danish-born Florist Jens Jakobsen took part this year in a new concept for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. He created one of four floral installations titled Floral Immersion : The Beauty of Nature. And the aim was to present the ‘beguiling art of the florist on a new design platform’. Many congratulations to Jens on his stunning creation called ‘The…
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Devised by the McQueens Flower School team, ‘Honey I’m Home’ is McQueens Flowers second installation at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. And above is Flower School Principal, Sophie Powell. Under her and her team’s guidance, show visitors are invited to create a bee for their installation in the Artisan Studio area, as I did. Using Craspedia globosa, foliage and mini wooden…
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