Category: Honest Florist

  • The Summer Florals Workshop

    The Summer Florals Workshop

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    Posh Canvas Events presents The Honest Woman Summer Florals Workshop I’m delighted to be involved in a coming together of creative minds. The Summer Florals Workshop combines delicious food, beautiful blooms and a stunning relaxing setting in the foothills of the South Downs. I’ll show you how to Create a romantic organic table display using…

  • Summer School

    Summer School

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    Summer School is open! Workshop dates are now in for June. Starting with a celebration of British flowers for British Flowers Week 14-20th June, I’ll be teaching a Wild & Sensory Table Display followed by a British Flower Meadow Workshop and a Midsummer Flower Crown Workshop. June will see a short course on the introduction…

  • Jessica & Damon

    Jessica & Damon

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    Weddings are back, and they have changed beyond our wildest dreams. For 2021 and beyond we have torn up the rule book. Weddings can be anything you want. Micro Weddings don’t lack style or sass and here we have gone for daring and contemporary. I joined photographer Masha Unwerth and her amazing crew to style…

  • Spring Blooms

    Spring Blooms

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    More than any other season Spring marks new beginnings. I always think that Spring is the most exciting time both in my work and in the garden. This season I’m mixing up bulbs, hyacinths and tulips with delicate spring petals such as Anemone and ranunculus. Colour wise I’m stocking whites and greens and golds but…

  • Easter Table

    Easter Table

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    Now that we are allowed six people in the garden it’s time to dust off the garden furniture and dine Al Fresco! Don’t worry if your garden and table are not ready for friends. Order a Seasonal Easter Bouquet and have it delivered free to your home. Take three vessels, I’ve used three jugs here…

  • Valentine’s Day

    Valentine’s Day

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    This year I’ve designed bouquets using a rich palate of velvety reds, sumptuous purples, soft pinks and fresh greens. Inspired by Italian romance choose from Valentina, Rosetta and Aida bouquets in three difference sizes. Love DSB x

  • Slow January

    Slow January

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    So far January is cold and wonderfully White with frost. Long walks in the countryside and by the Sea. 2021 seems to have a fresh glow despite these crazy times. Maybe we are taking the time to look around us? Perhaps the earth is giving us something beautiful to enjoy during lockdown? Maybe it’s always…

  • DIY Christmas Wreath

    DIY Christmas Wreath

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    If you have bought a Luxury DIY Wreath Making kit then you now have all of the ingredients to make a stunning Christmas Wreath. Follow my ever so easy instructions on how to do it. 1/ Moss your wreath. If you have bought my DIY kit your copper wreath will come pre mossed unless specified.…

  • Autumn

    Autumn

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    If you could pick any season as your favourite which would you pick? Oh I love the first signs of Spring, and a long hot Summer is divine, Winter I could leave at home to be honest, but Autumn now thats the season to be happy. As a florist the colours of Autumn are so…

  • Peaches, Apricots & Cream

    Peaches, Apricots & Cream

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    We are now in the middle of a lovely Summer. The flowers have grown and everything looks lovely outside. This weeks bouquet is a melody of peachy hues. Cream, Sand, Apricot, Peach, Watermelon, Coral to name but a few. To keep your cut flowers happy remember to cut an inch from the stalks, keep them…

  • Just Peonies

    Just Peonies

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    This week I’ve got my hands on the best English peonies. Dreamy pinks and sherberts, nudes and creams and Reds and Hot pinks. No flowers flown in from afar, just home grown loveliness. Choose from Medium bouquet £30 or Large £40 Love Honest Woman x

  • Strawberries & Cream

    Strawberries & Cream

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    Introducing this weeks Peony Posy, ‘Strawberries & Cream’. The heady, velvet smell of Tuberose, fragrant English Stocks and petticoat like Ranunculus, not forgetting the majestic unfurling pink Peonies ‘Sarah Bernhardt’ and white Peony ‘Dutchess De Nemo’. I want to deliver the best flowers that I can to you in a sustainable, honest way. So wherever…

  • Peony Season

    Peony Season

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    Last weekend marked the begining of Peony season with the much loved bloom appearing back in stock at the wholesalers. Honest Woman loves nothing more than the stunning unfolding of the peony buds as they burst open into full colour, showing an almost different shade with every passing day. So with the first Peonies on…

  • Interior Predictions 2020

    Interior Predictions 2020

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    2019 saw even more people taking to Instagram to share the beautiful rooms in their own houses, this trend will continue for 2020, with a move away from high street stores to individuals upcycling and buying sustainable older pieces of furniture. A lot of us live in Victorian houses with old smaller Victorian rooms painted…

  • Christmas Wreath Workshops

    Christmas Wreath Workshops

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    This Christmas I taught wreath making to a bunch of Brighton, Southwick and Shoreham people.  I thoroughly enjoyed the experience, loved teaching and putting my floristry skills to good use. I’ll be taking more workshops in the New Year.  Watch out for dates. Here are just a selection of the wreaths that we made. Happy…