Grasses

Most of us only consider grass as a chore, when we have to mow the lawn. But ornamental grasses, bred for floristry for their decorative seedheads, elegant stems or colourful stripes, make great additions to any arrangement. Delicate plumes of grass soften bouquets, and remind us of wild meadows and summer evenings.

This Setaria grass has a soft fluffy feel and appearance, rather like a squirrel’s tail. Just behind you can see the rosy pink flowers of sedum, another great autumn flower. Look out for grasses including fountain grass (frondy and very airy), China grass, typha (a long broad green blade), and even wheat.

What a week

Our normal week in the shop is just that - normal. Flowers come in, orders come in, orders are made up and delivered. All usually without fuss or any problem, all sent out to happy customers.
Not this week. The four weekend weddings went OK and the normal orders went OK

The main problem was two unhappy customers in one week. What did we do wrong? - nothing, except tell the truth! We don't like having unhappy customers, we go out of our way to try and help but sometimes it just doesn't work

Customer 1. Wanted to send someone some Red Freesia. This is a request we often get, and why not, you can find a number of adverts for sending Red Freesia on the Internet so they must be available, yes?? Well not quite. The freesia commercially available to florists may be called Red but are more orange than red. Here are a couple of photos of what is refered to as Red Freesias





We prefer that our customers are fully aware that they are not a true Red but this is not always accepted and they insist that there are Red Freesias.available So one unhappy customer. Perhaps its us, are we colour blind? Try as we may we cannot really call these red. we have over 100 years experience between us and we havent as yet seen a true Red Freesia. What do we do? go with the flow and pretend they are red or continue to try and advise our customers accordingly??

Customer 2. Wanted Blue Gerbera. She had seen them on the Internet so knew they were available. We informed her that sorry there is no such thing as a Blue Gerbera. Here is what we found on the Internet.









The first two are paintings the other is a cut flower which has been dyed blue!!

Wedding of Carly and James

Congratulations to Carly and James who were married on Saturday 29 June 2009 at Budock Church.

Carly,s bouquet, a handtied, consisted of Barbie Roses and white Hydrangea heads.
Her 5 bridesmaids also carried handtied bouquets but with Sweet Avalanche Roses.The table arrangements in glass bowls contained white Hydrangea and bear grass,the top table arrangement which extended the full length of the table continued the theme of a mixture of the Roses with white Hydrangea and foliage. Babie Roses were also used in the cake decoration









Hello Jackie,

Just wanted to say thank you so much for the amazing wedding flowers you did for us.
They truly exceded our expectations.
When we walked into the reception room after you'd put the flowers in we were both speechless, it took our breath away!
My boquet was everything I had dreamt of and my bridesmaids boquets looked stunning with their dresses.
I have attatched some picture for you to see!

Thank you so much for everything!

Carly & James.