One Flew Over Recently...

For florists, February is a frightening and hectic time..

Valentine's Day bouquet orders come in thick and fast.  Some are super early and well prepared, some at the eleventh hour.  Some where the last minute panic can be felt even through an email, and some with a message that must have taken months to perfect.

After years of working solidly in the lead up, and then spending Valentine's Day in the car on deliveries, we were thrilled when we booked a wedding on the 13th giving us the perfect excuse for a year off!  And we even managed to see our boyfriends...

So, this month...

We ventured into the world of a-symmetrical bouquets.  

And posing with your legs slightly bent so that perspective is kinder;

We strung up herb and foliage bundles with twine and hung them from the infamous St. John's pegs;

We made a heavily textured garland entrance-way out of eucalyptus, magnolia leaf, pistachio, leather leaf, hebe, variegated ivy and moss (to name a few), and florally highlighted it with anenome, ranunculus, wax flower and lisianthus;

We received the best post ever!  Loadsa seeds for spring sowing;

We created a pop up flower bed for a ceremony in the Council Chamber of the lovely Town Hall Hotel;

We FROZE our bottoms off in our FREEZING workshop and had sleepless nights worrying about how the flowers would fair;

We chose some of the softest, prettiest pinks and blues around for a very special mum-to-be;

We put together some super cute, blush buttonholes;

And we spent a long, and quite meditative time watching the cat watch a cat;