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 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.

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.

Star performer

 

The sweet peas this week are on fire!

They literally are bursting in to flower the second I turn my back.

So this weeks bouquets are full of them and smell amazing.

Busy, busy bee

Fairs, markets, bouquets, weddings and of course my full time job, just slightly busy at the mo.

And then of course there's these two...

Penshurst Farmers Market 4th June... the result

What a start to the season at Penshurst Farmers Market. With the sun shining and my glamorous assistant in tow (hubby), we set off with a car full of beautifully scented bouquets and jam jars, along with scented, edible and bee loving plants.

All seemed to be a huge success and we sold out of all of our cut flowers.

Here is a taster of what we were selling and what we hope to have more of for the July market.

 Collection of vintage china floral displays.

 

 I had to tear myself away from this gravy boat as it was one of my faves.

The jam jar posies of sweet peas and nigella were a big hit with the customers.

As were the highly scented bouquets, containing sweet peas, cornflower, nigella, lupins, mint and rosemary to name just a few of the flowers that were used.

The next Penshurst Farmers Market is Saturday 2nd July, hope to see you there.

What a wedding!!

Kate looked absolutely stunning in her beautiful Alexander McQueen dress.

Delicate english flowers including lily of the valley!! Good guess!

I love that all the flowers and foliage were British sourced and even from their private estates, the abbey looked incredible and I loved the trees.  Here's to locally grown english flowers and a revival of the language of flowers, for those romantic messages in wedding bouquets.