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From her Yorkshire garden, Esther grows and sells beautiful blooms. She loves to create arrangements for special events, including parties and weddings.
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Artisan Florist & Flower Grower
Seasonal flowers grown and gathered in my Yorkshire Wolds cutting garden
Gift bouquets | Weddings | Funerals
Rooted in nature, history & folklore Esther specialises in gift bouquets filled with glorious English garden flowers, arranged in her signature ‘garden gathered’ style. Esther also provides thoughtfully selected, sustainably arranged funeral flowers. Flowers

from Esther in the Garden are:

~ seasonal and sustainably grown
~ pesticide and preservative free
~ grown with a wildlife friendly approach
~ freshly cut
~ full of scent, texture, colour and movement

21/06/2026

✨ Summer Solstice ✨

Today is the longest day of the year… and somehow the turning point too.

After months of sowing seeds, planting, watering, weeding and waiting, the garden is now bursting into life. It feels almost impossible to keep up with it all. One minute I’m picking sweet peas and the next another row of cornflowers, snapdragons and ammi seems to have burst into flower!

The Summer Solstice has long been a time of celebration here in Britain. For thousands of years people gathered to welcome the light and give thanks for the abundance of the season. In the traditional farming year, Midsummer marked the height of abundance. By the longest day, sheep had been shorn, crops were growing strongly and haymaking was just around the corner.

Looking around the cutting patch now, I can understand why Midsummer was a time of celebration and thanksgiving…

Here in the cutting patch, the season is changing almost daily…

🌿 Sweet peas are filling the air with their perfume
🌸 Snapdragons are opening and the bees are revelling in them
🌿 Cornflowers are dancing in the breeze
🌸 Feverfew is producing armfuls of cheerful little daisies
🌿 Nigella seedpods are beginning to form
🌸 Roses are opening and scenting the evening air
🌿 The first strawflowers and grasses are emerging

It’s a busy time, with buckets of flowers to gather and bouquets to make, but I wouldn’t swap it for anything.

Happy Summer Solstice everyone. May you find a little time to sit in the evening sunshine, listen to the birds and enjoy these long, golden days… they’re precious, and they pass so quickly.

Esther x

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19/06/2026

There’s a good chance you’ve seen this in one of my bouquets without knowing its name…

If you’ve ever had one of my summer bouquets, there’s a good chance you’ve spotted Persian cress tucked amongst the flowers…

I absolutely love it.

Its tiny bead-like seed pods add softness, movement, and wonderful texture. They remind me of strings of little green beads.

It’s easy to grow but a real fiddle to prep, with lots of stripping and tidying, and it always takes far longer than I think it will… but it’s so worth it.

Persian cress (Lepidium sativum) is actually the same plant as the garden cress you might grow for salads. A member of the mustard family, it’s thought to have originated in Persia and western Asia and has been cultivated since ancient times. I rather like the thought that gardeners have been growing and enjoying it for thousands of years… although I grow it for those beautiful seed heads rather than its peppery leaves!

It’s never the star of the show, but it adds a little special something to my bouquets …

Esther x

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16/06/2026

Every bouquet starts long before the flowers are picked…

It’s British Flowers Week, a celebration of the incredible variety of seasonal flowers grown here in Britain, and the people who grow, gather and arrange them.

So I thought I’d introduce myself…

I’m Esther, a small-scale flower grower and florist based in the Yorkshire Wolds.

🌱 From spring tulips and scented sweet peas to summer dahlias and autumn grasses, I grow seasonal flowers in my cottage garden in Hutton Cranswick, carefully tending each crop through the seasons before gathering them freshly for bouquets and arrangements.

💐 Those flowers are gathered fresh from the garden and turned into carefully crafted gift bouquets for local customers, flowers for weddings and funerals, and DIY buckets for people creating their own arrangements.

🐝 Everything is grown as naturally as possible, without chemicals, allowing the flowers to develop the scent, texture, movement and character that make British-grown flowers so special.

🌿 Many people are surprised by just how fresh local flowers can be. Often cut the dusk or dawn before arranging, they haven’t travelled hundreds or thousands of miles to reach you.

🌸 I also love sharing the stories behind the flowers through seasonal workshops, talks and demonstrations, exploring the traditions, history and folklore woven through our gardens and the changing seasons.

💕 Whether you’re sending a bouquet, planning a wedding, remembering a loved one, learning a new skill, or simply filling your home with seasonal flowers, every stem is grown, gathered and arranged with care.

Thank you so much for supporting small flower growers and local businesses like mine.

Esther x

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13/06/2026

This week’s event flowers smell every bit as beautiful as they look…

I’ve spent much of this week preparing flowers for weekend events, including these miniature apothecary vases, filled with a seasonal mix of flowers and foliage gathered from our Yorkshire Wolds cutting garden.

These sweet little vases include;

🌿 Sweet Williams
🌿 Sweet Peas
🌿 Feverfew
🌿 Marjoram
🌿 Veronica
🌿 Cornflowers
🌿 Yorkshire Fog

I always enjoy creating these smaller arrangements. Each vase is carefully filled with flowers chosen for their colour, texture and character, creating natural, garden-inspired displays for tables and gatherings.

Many of these early summer flowers are beautifully fragrant too. The spicy, clove-like scent of sweet Williams mingles with the warm herbal fragrance of marjoram, adding another layer of seasonal charm.

The garden is changing so quickly at the moment. Every few days something new comes into flower while others quietly fade, meaning no two orders are ever quite the same.

Hope you’re having a lovely weekend.

Esther x

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09/06/2026

A huge thank you to the lovely ladies of Hornsea WI for making me feel so welcome yesterday...

Last night I shared some of the folklore and hidden histories behind a few of our favourite early summer flowers…

…from roses once being used as a cure for “moligrubs of the brain” (otherwise known as grumpiness!), to snapdragons, which were once thought to protect against witches’ curses.

While I love sharing the folklore and history behind flowers, the conversations afterwards are often my favourite part of a talk. Flowers have a remarkable way of bringing memories to the surface, and it was such a pleasure to hear your stories- from wedding flowers and family celebrations, to memories of gardens tended by parents and grandparents, and the flowers currently blooming in your own gardens and community spaces

Thank you for such a warm welcome and a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

Esther x

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05/06/2026

One of the prettiest things in my cutting garden isn’t a flower at all…

It’s Briza maxima, or Greater Quaking Grass, with its delicate dangling seed heads that tremble and move in the slightest breeze. At this time of year, I love tucking a few stems into bouquets as a final flourish, just to bring in a bit of movement, texture and a soft sparkle amongst the flowers.

Greater Quaking Grass came to Britain from the Mediterranean centuries ago, and has been grown in gardens here since at least the early 1600s.

Over the years it’s picked up a lovely jumble of old country names like Totter Grass, Toddling Grass, and here in Yorkshire, “Trembling Jockeys” 💕

It’s often the last stem I add to a bouquet.

For me, it’s the small details tucked between the flowers that really make a bouquet feel complete…

Esther x

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03/06/2026

Welcome June!

June has arrived in a flurry of flowers, helped by all this gorgeous sunshine and much welcomed rain!

I’ve got lots of gift bouquet orders heading out this month. There is something so lovely about gathering armfuls of seasonal blooms from the cutting garden and turning them into arrangements for birthdays, celebrations, thank you gifts, and thoughtful surprises…

The bouquet pictured is a Gardener’s Armful -brimming with flowers and foliage freshly cut from our Yorkshire Wolds cutting garden. Ready to be popped into a vase.

This one included:

🌿 Garden roses
🌿 Ranunculus
🌿 Cornflowers
🌿 Orlaya grandiflora
🌿 Sweet Williams
🌿 Sweet rocket
🌿 Stocks
🌿 Geums
🌿 Lady’s mantle
🌿 Apple mint
🌿 Nigella
🌿 Quaking grass

No chemicals. No air miles. Just seasonal flowers, grown with care and gathered at their very best.

I never quite tire of seeing what the garden offers each week. Every bouquet is a little different, reflecting the season as it unfolds. ✨

If you have a birthday, anniversary, thank you gift, or special occasion coming up this month, do get in touch. I’d be delighted to create a bouquet filled with the very best flowers the garden has to offer.

DM here or message 07805 198376

Esther x

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30/05/2026

Every year I wait impatiently for the roses… ✨

… and this week, the first blooms have finally begun to open

The old English-style roses in my Yorkshire Wolds cutting garden are among my favourite flowers to grow. Wonderfully fragrant, beautifully ruffled, and full of character, they are grown especially for my wedding work.

One of my favourite pieces of rose folklore is the phrase sub rosa, or “under the rose”. In medieval times, a rose was a symbol of secrecy, trust and confidence. Anything discussed beneath it was expected to remain private.

It seems rather lovely that a flower so often associated with romance should also represent quiet promises and shared confidences 💕

For now, I’m simply enjoying watching these first beautiful blooms unfold in the garden…

The roses featured in these photographs are:

🪴Roald Dahl

🪴Desdemona

🪴Queen of Sweden

- three beautiful David Austin roses that I grow for their wonderful fragrance, oh so romantic character and timeless beauty

Bliss!

Esther x

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29/05/2026

A little bit of Friday joy!

Some sweet little miniature apothecary vases filled with an exuberant mix of sweet rocket, apple mint, geums, corn cockle, philadelphus, variegated pittosporum, corn flowers, meadow buttercups, quaking grass & plum thistles…

…destined for the wonderfully convivial tables of Stella's Larder Driffield for their Social this weekend 🎉

I absolutely adore putting together these little vase arrangements for the Stella’s Socials… each one a carefully selected seasonal gathering of flowers and foliage from our Yorkshire Wolds cutting garden 🌿

Every stem is chosen with care, creating something natural, characterful, and ever-changing through the seasons - a little reflection of Stella’s beautifully curated wines, local beers, small plates, and thoughtful snacks. Flowers and good food always seem to belong together somehow✨

Hope you have a super weekend.

Esther x

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28/05/2026

A huge thank you to the wonderful ladies of the Driffield Afternoon W.I. for such a warm welcome at your meeting today 🌸

It was such a joy to share a floristry talk and demonstration all about seasonal flowers, flower folklore, and the meanings and symbolism hidden within some of our favourite blooms 🌿

From old traditions and botanical stories to the language of flowers, it made for such a lovely afternoon of flowers, conversation, and laughter.

After a little hiatus whilst recovering from shingles (and a few other health wobbles along the way), this lovely lot truly cheered me up more than they probably realise 🌷

Thank you again for having me, and for sending me home smiling.

Esther x

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