Bude Botanical

29/05/2026

I'm all in for beautifully petite beachside weddings on a Friday lunchtime. And flower bowls on plinths. I'm all in on those too.

A fab couple of days of flowering. More tomorrow. 🌸

16/05/2026

Yes to drift wood arches and vintage milk churns. Yes to wonderful couples like Em and Matt. Yes to having such a lovely wedding venue right on our doorstep. Yes to having the bride's sister sing while we set up today. Yes to flowers grown just down the road. Yes to having the best gang of freelancers who come and flower with me. Yes to having a seasonal and mindful approach to wedding day flowers. Just yes really.

02/05/2026

Love. Just love.

I think, as human beings, it's all we have really. All we should be striving for as we meander through these lovely lives of ours.

To love, and to be loved.

I get to see it so often in my work. On the happy and bursting with joy kind of days, of course, but on the sad and difficult days too. I get to see it in sharp focus on those days, in all its wonderful detail. I feel the love emanating from the families who I work with and it so often takes my breath away.

Last week I worked on a few of those sad days and I tried to pour a lot of the love into the floral arrangements I made. They feel like an expression of each family's love. A final token of beauty as well as a gift from mother earth.

I am grateful for the trust each family puts in me to create something that represents a little piece of their love, and I'm grateful for the connection I get to have with these lovely people, who give me a lovely window into the love they have shared.

30/04/2026

Sometimes it's not the most obvious of photos that catch my breath and make me smile when I catch sight of them while having a little sort out on my computer.

It's photos like this one that capture a little bit of wedding day loveliness - smiles, last minute preparations, maybe a little bit of nervousness, everything ready, and almost time for the bride to arrive. You can feel the anticipation and the joy seeping through the lens.

Alice and Michael planned the most magical weekend last May at Watermouth Cove in North Devon. The sun shone, the cliff top views were utterly breathtaking, the bride and groom were super chilled and everyone was enjoying every minute of this fabulous weekend.

We were treated like friends throughout all the planning, the whole set up and the pack away the following day. We even had a swim on the way home. Just a joy really.

More days like this please.

Captured so beautifully by

21/04/2026

It feels like we've hit the limbering up phase of the year, as weddings are nearly upon us. I've been busy quietly flowering over the winter and early spring, but now the serious work really begins. It's going to be a very busy May and June.

The flowers are well and truly on their way, grown with so much love and care by and , the pre-wedding meet ups with my gorgeous couples are being ticked off each week, my lovely team of floral freelancers are all booked in, and I can, most days, usually be found in front of a spreadsheet; producing stem counts so that we order in exactly the right amount of flowers for each wedding.

This week I'm off to the Eden project at the conscious connections event to chat sustainable floristry, and next week I'll be working hard on lots of floral proposals for 2027 weddings. I'm also busy getting sweet peas in the ground, caring for my dahlia tubers and cosmos seedlings, and spending all my spare time in the garden.

I had a little flex of my flower arranging muscles on Sunday, trying out the gorgeous bowl pictured, which has been designed by one of my Sustainable Wedding Alliance flower crew .dish.girls. Just love the rhubarb pink they've chosen for these hand thrown beauties 🩷

02/04/2026

As an April bride, I have a special place reserved in my heart for April weddings. Spring flowers are such a glorious surprise to me every year. How can such magic be created from all the rain, all the cold, all the wind and all the dark of the previous few months? How can it all just spring back into life with such beauty, such brightness, such ease?

What colour would you choose for your April bridal bouquet?

29/03/2026

A Sustainability Sunday post from my little studio here in North Cornwall.

I grow a lot of shrubs and herbs here in my garden in Bude to ensure I can make beautiful arrangements for the families I work with which have little or no environmental impact.

This week I made this arrangement and included things like flowering currant, spirea, h**e, pieris, pittosporum and rosemary. All unsung heroes of the horticultural world, but all giving our gardens important structure, colour and texture. They do this while quietly having a positive impact on our planet too, trapping carbon into our soil, which is where we need it to be

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27/03/2026

A new post over on my blog x

It’s difficult to swerve words like sustainability, climate crisis, net zero and carbon footprint as we make our way through each of our days here on planet earth. Last week I turned on the radio and spent half an hour engrossed in a talk about democracy and its relationship to addressing the clim...

23/03/2026

I'm really chuffed to be a member florist of the Sustainable Floristry Network in which all members have to complete an in depth Foundation in Sustainable Floristry course in order to join.

The course is designed to reset ideas around flowers and floral design, enabling florists to become true ambassadors for nature, contributing to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and helping support emissions targets set by the Paris Agreement.

Sustainable floristry is about nature-positive floral design, and I am very proud to be a member of this international network –  honouring the network’s pledge of choosing better flowers for my clients, designing out waste from my business and running a business made on good ethical decisions.

And now that the occasional warm day is returning to our beautiful little corner of our planet, it’s time to put all that I have learned into practice, growing my business slowly and steadily, taking my lovely clients on this sustainability journey with me, and surrounding myself by industry experts who are helping me to make the best choices for the future of our planet.

22/03/2026

Back on the gram for another little post in my Sustainable Sunday Series...

I would never call myself a proper grower, only really growing on a very micro scale in my little Victorian garden. I leave the serious and professional growing to the true flower growers, who create volumes of blooms I could never, ever produce...I don't have the time, the space or, in fact, the skill to produce the standards of blooms they produce.

But I do have so much love for growing and so I do it out of pure love and enjoyment.

My style of growing is like a little girl in a sweet shop, flitting from jar to jar, changing her mind every five minutes about what she really wants.
And I would say my garden reflects the childhood sweetshop of my dreams. Against a backdrop of my beautiful and carefully picked shrubs (the most fabulous and underrated stars of this garden show), I plant whatever takes my fancy.

My spring stalwarts are springing back into life this weekend...the flowing currants, the narcissi (with some new varieties this year), the amelanchier tree (actual heaven), the spirea, the bluebells and muscari too. I've held back on the tulips as I don't have many spring weddings but I am going large on the sweet peas, the dahlias and the cosmos - all to be used in my home, in our little holiday cottage and also for my many couples marrying in the summer months.

Being able to wander out of my back door and pick things that I can then use in my floral arrangements is about as sustainable as it gets I think. Zero air miles or road miles are travelled, and you get a little piece of me and my passion for gardening in the arrangements I make for you, my gorgeous couples and clients.

I hope you're enjoying a little potter around your garden on this lovely l, sunny Sunday.

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