A Bridal Bouquet For Pip.

Pip approached me a year ago to design the florals for her summer wedding, unfortunately I didn’t have availability for the big event, but when Pip got back in-touch again recently to design a sweet bouquet for their legal ceremony I was so pleased. A joyful way start the first week of August,
celebrating the arrival of the dahlias.

Peaches, Sherbet & Cream for Anna.

What’s not to love, soft lemon tones with peachy highlights. Eucalyptus as requested by the bride to link back to her Australian heritage, whilst it’s not in season atm I did manage to track some down especially for the day. A nice little wedding to end June as beautifully as the month has been.

Harvesting for a wedding & farmers market.

The Haworth growing site is in absolute abundance atm and this morning I went to do a decent harvest for this weekends wedding and farmers market. Buckets overflowing with snapdragons, ammi, cornflowers, canterbury bells, nigella, achillea and so much more. A true farm to table experience for our couple and customers, what a treat. x

The first of the sweet pea's & dahlias.

This week i’m finding the evenings the most peaceful time to cut & do any plant related errands. It’s the time of year where after months of seed sowing and tending to annuals, planting out, that almost everything is in the ground and I can take a breath and appreciate how far in the season we’ve come.

With a calm July on the horizon with a busy start to the month easing into a 3 week break down in Oxfordshire, i’m spending the next week getting a few jobs in order before we head away.

It’s feels a little anxious to be leaving my flowers in high season, but I have some willing and capable hands to take care of developments whilst we’re away. If i’m honest i’ve hit that mid-season fatigue, with a few large weddings under my belt, a successful Spring harvest and all the progress at the new property in Laycock, Honour Farm, a summer away from Yorkshire where we are fully immersed year round, is really very appealing. A opportunity to step back, seek inspiration for the house and gardens, and most importantly downing tools and creating memories whilst Magnus is still so young, we can’t wait.

In the meantime, the flowers will continue to grow and bloom. Particularly the dahlias, which have already begun to flower this week. I look forward to the sea buds and florets appearing back at us when we come back, it’ll be fascinating to see that real shift in growth having never left my flowers for longer than 4-5 days.

In other news we’ll be at Ilkley Real Food & Drink market this Sunday 10-3pm on the grove. I’ll be there at our market cart, selling bunches and chatting away to anyone who is remotely interested in flowers, so do stop by. x

Creating a colour story for your wedding.

Whilst cutting flowers this morning, I started to think about the detail we go to when deciding what we wear and how we curate our wardrobe for an important event or wedding, and yet how often clients decide what flowers they want based on their favourite colours, which aren’t necessarily always the right colours, when used all at once…

Of course your favourite colours are always welcome, but deciding how to pair for example blue into your scheme should be considered, not an after thought. As seen in todays arrangement (medium bowl design - used for dining table scapes & focal points, email for a quote) blue within a cooler palette is easy on the eye, it has an ethereal quality, naturalistic and effortless. There’s nothing jarring about the introduction of a soft lemony shade of yellow or a hint of muted mauve. Whilst we have plenty of pink & orange growing at the moment, it’s important not to throw everything but the kitchen sink at a colour story just because we have it to use.

Stine Goya ‘Farrow Dress’ in ‘Mocha Brown’ displayed here with Medium Footed Bowl design - email for quote.

When designing a colour story for a wedding or event, it’s really helpful knowing what your idea’s are for your day. What your likes and dislikes are, what colours your bridesmaids/groomsmen etc are wearing, what the venue looks like. This information really starts to build up a visual that can then built on and contemplated with great detail. It’s not necessary to have the colours that are being worn within the flower particularly, in-fact creating that colour story with contrasting colours, textures and considering light/dark is what will make a design elevated. That play on light and dark seen here with a rich dark brown dress, contrasted with bright shades and airy, delicate details.

More often than not, the most successful colour stories are those which are paired back, sticking to one tonal aesthetic or limiting the palette to 2 or 3 colours. It allows for breath and space between the flowers within our designs and yet is still completely unique in execution.

British Flowers Week 2022.

British Flower Week is here and of course we had to celebrate with what we had in flower. For us it’s foxgloves, sweet rocket, poppies, lupins, iris, achillea and snap dragons.

We are endlessly passionate about our homegrown cut flowers and as we expand up on Honour Farm we look forward to all the flowers shared for the years to come.

Late Winter Dried Arrangements For Little Beacon.

Last year I worked with Rachel, owner and founder of Little Beacon on a number of floral arrangements within her retail space in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. To kick off 2022 before the UK flower season begins I opted for dried arrangements hiring out our ‘Dining Urns’ in medium & large. These are popularly hired out for weddings and events for dining focal pieces, usually adorned with homegrown flowers but it’s great to see their versatility being used in a commercial environment.

If you’d like to enquire about retail arrangements for visual merchandising in your store or office then please email where it’d be happy to discuss concepts.

Hattie x