Six tips about how to look after your flowers and make them last longer is the focus of my latest video on YouTube.
Tip 1. Remove Lower LeavesIf your flowers have any foliage which may fall below the waterline, you need to remove them. Some flowers have clean stems like bluebells and some have lower leaves on their stems like tulips. If you leave the leaves on, the foliage will rot and cause bacteria to grow, which will shorten the life of the flowers.… Read more
Brand Manager, Art Director & Photographer Sundari Ferris shares her small business journey. Creativity runs through all the threads of her career, initially working in the wedding industry, she now provides art direction, photography and branding for businesses. She also creates beautiful handmade, textured painted backdrops, which are used by photographers and florists.
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Anemones are the focus of this episode of my new YouTube series, ‘Cut Flower Facts’. You’ll discover where the name Anemone derives from, where they’re grown and what they signify in the Language of Flowers.
P.S. Here’s a link to a similar video featuring Narcissi. … Read more
Organic flower grower Polly Nicholson from Bayntun Flowers shares her small business journey. Passionate about tulips, she also grows narcissi, alliums, peonies, clematis, sweet peas, bearded irises, delphiniums, zinnias and dahlias. She supplies wholesale flowers to florists, runs workshops and is also in-house florist for some residential properties locally.
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There are so many different types of containers available nowadays for flower arranging. In this blog post and accompanying video, we’re going to look at 14 factors that you may like to consider when choosing the most appropriate vessel for your flowers, in particular when you’re photographing them.
ProportionWhen you look at an arrangement as a whole, there is a general guideline in floristry that the container should be one third in height and the flowers two thirds in height of the overall design.… Read more
