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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016 | Open Church by Interflora

May 27, 2016 By Rona Leave a Comment

Many congratulations to Interflora for winning a Gold Medal for their ‘Open Church’ exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show! Standing at over five metres tall, the installation reflects the architecture of a church exterior, complete with floral church bells, feature windows and suspended chandeliers.

With a colour palette of pastel pink, peach, lilac and ivory, flowers used in the design include Sweet Avalanche, Pearl Avalanche and Ocean Song roses, Sarah Bernhardt peonies, Gladiator alliums, Rossanno Pink chrysanthemum blooms and Manilla Phalaenopsis orchids.… Read more

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2014 – Interflora’s Stand

May 22, 2014 By Rona Leave a Comment

Many congratulations to Interflora, whose exhibit won a Gold medal at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. With RHS Chelsea Gold medal winning Interflora florist David Ragg as their mentor, a team of five florists aged from 21 to 27 years, created the exhibit which was called ‘Succession’. Five large wire canopy frames were adorned with beautiful pink, orange and yellow flowers. And here are some pictures below…

Many congratulations to the florists….Rebecca Hough, Amy Manley, Charlotte Cooke, Paula McLagen and Sophie Watton…and of course, to David!… Read more

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013 – Interflora’s Stand

May 24, 2013 By Rona Leave a Comment

I’m delighted to feature the stunning Interflora ‘Time Frames’ stand at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013.

It was awarded a Gold Medal and I’m so thrilled for the five florists who created the design! They are David Ragg, Steve Betts, Natalie Stanyer, Janet Boast and Morgan Nuth.

Interflora is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year and the stand takes inspiration from art, fashion and pop culture over the last ninety years…from the 1920s to the present day, in six individual ‘frames’.… Read more

Flowerona Reflects: sweet peas & schools

February 9, 2013 By Rona Leave a Comment

Well, it’s been a very busy week! Here’s what I’ve been up to…

My week

Monday

A stay-at-home day…writing blog posts and dealing with emails.

Tuesday

On Tuesday afternoon, I travelled into London to meet up with Kate from Laura Ashley to talk about future blog posts for their wonderful blog.

And as I was near Regent Street, I popped into Anthropologie where I spotted these gorgeous flower vases on display!

Wednesday

On Wednesday, I attended one day of a 4-Day Intensive School at Paula Pryke’s Flower School in London.… Read more

Flowerona reflects: astrantia & art

November 10, 2012 By Rona 2 Comments

It seems like every time I write my Flowerona reflects blog post, I say that it’s been a busy week.

Well, this week has been exceptionally busy! I hope you’re sitting comfortably…

Out & about

Saturday

Last Saturday, I was invited to attend florist Jay Archer‘s first Crafternoon Tea Workshop at Fetcham Park in Surrey.

I had such a lovely afternoon and plan to blog about it next week. But in the meantime, here are a couple of photos showing Jay demoing, and a peek at the floral heart which I made.… Read more