White Christmas at Froufrou Bridal Boutique

 

Christmas door wreath for Froufrou Bridal Boutique to go with their beautiful white pom poms!

Many markets make for sore fingers!

It has been a very busy week preparing for two Christmas markets that we were doing this weekend. Very sore little fingers but well worth it as both Penshurst Farmers Market and The Pantiles Christmas market were very well attended. The natural wreaths with oranges, interesting funghi and pheasant feathers, along with the luxurious hydrangea, chillies and pink peppercorn wreaths all proved very popular.

We will be back at The Pantiles Christmas market on the weekend of the 17th and 18th December, better get making some more wreaths!

Florist in the Forest Studio set for Christmas

The lights are up at the Studio and work has begun on wreaths and arrangements to be sold at the Studio, at the Eridge Park Farm Shop next week, and at the  Christmas markets at Penshurst Place on Saturday 3rd December and at the Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, on Sunday 4th December.

Preparing for Christmas!

The china collection is building ready for Christmas, all to be filled with beautiful things of a floral nature!

  

This weekend we will be at the Groombridge Pre-School festive fair, lots of goodies, examples of the Christmas wreaths and table arrangements that will be available as of December, Vintage china - of course and pretty posies to takeaway.

Frou Frou Bridal Boutique

Frou Frou Bridal Boutique opened its doors today, with the launch last night. A stunning boutique with the most beautiful selection of dresses and accessories. A bridal boutique 'with a vintage twist', the attention to detail to the interior is incredible and every bride should pay them a visit and enjoy champagne, fancy tea and cupcakes! What more could you wish for!

Christmas is on its way

Just a quick post to give you a taste of what is to come at Christmas! Click on the Christmas page on the top bar to see a few examples of wreaths, table arrangements and vintage goodies. Keep checking back as I will add more pics soon.

Why wait till Christmas

A hint of Christmas for Eridge Park Farm Shop this week as they had a special evening to release their Christmas pricelist. Lots of tasty cheese and cakes were nibbled and local wines consumed. I created a couple of wreaths that can be either for the door or table, but why wait till Christmas when they also make rather lovely autumn door wreaths.

Ok, perhaps this wreath should wait till Christmas though.

Signs of Autumn

With things starting to wind down in the cutting garden, we escaped for a lovely weeks holiday, but more on that later in the week.

Even though we seem to have brought the sunshine back with us, the flowers are very much showing signs of autumn.

 

Holiday snaps to follow - once i've sorted through the pics, got a little carried away!!

A little bit of everything

This weekend consisted of creating arrangements for a wedding, a birthday, a funeral, a pub, a farm shop and a farmers market...

 phew.

Eridge Park Farm Shop

If you haven't already discovered, Eridge Park farm shop is now open.

Huge selection of local meats, seasonal fruit and veg, tasty breads and the most amazing ice cream.

You may also spot a weekly arrangement of locally grown flowers by yours truly!

Travelling bouquets

Home grown country flowers for a London wedding.
The bride loved the dark scabious, so these were mixed with sweet peas, astrantia, nigella, sedum, ammi, veronica and poppy heads with lots of senecio, sage, eucalyptus and oregano.

The bridesmaids had dainty posies of sweet peas, astrantia, nigella, small david austin roses and ammi, all mixed with senecio, sage and oregano.

 All boxed up and ready for their travels with the bride and groom.

Penshurst Farmers Market

Another month, another market.
How time flies.

Last market for this growing season will be the 3rd September.
Hope to see you there.

Penshurst Farmers Market 6th August

It's that time again. 

We will be at Penshurst Farmers Market this Saturday with a selection of scented bouquets, jam jars and scented plants.

Sweet peas are still putting on a fine show, as are all the various varieties of dill. 

Dahlias are starting to burst in to flower on a daily basis, particularly loving these beautiful velvety dark ones above.

Beautifully formed scabious in pale blues, white and dark burgundy, as well as plenty of stunning rich blue and mauve larkspur.

Wedding season

A wedding from a couple of weeks ago, that I have only just had a chance to upload the pics.

The bride loved velvety red roses but the bridesmaids were wearing raspberry, so for her bouquet I combined black bacarra roses with metalina roses and dark pink astrantia.

As always, must dash, enjoy the sunshine!

Dahlias - it's just the beginning

 

The dahlia season has started, so far there are beautiful white, lilac and cerise with plenty more on the way. Perfect with the stunning dark scabious that are flowering like crazy.

Sunshine on a rainy day

Today's bride is very lucky, it rained . . . a lot and apparently that is supposed to be good luck!

Thankfully the bridesmaids were wearing soft yellow to brighten a grey day and carried bouquets of sweet peas, scabious, feverfew and spray roses.

The bride had a combination of roses, spray roses, sweet peas, scabious, feverfew and lysimachia all combined with senecio and herbs and a touch of grass to give it a more country feel. 

And all but the roses home grown.