Floristry Blog
Shearsby Florist wins competition for Second Time to create Christmas Wreath for Downing Street
In (for this) December of 2021, I won the nationwide “British Christmas Tree Growers Association” creative competition to supply, make and present a festive wreath to Number 10 Downing Street, beating over 45 suppliers and growers to the top spot for the second time....
Covid 19 One Year On. A Year in the Life of a Leicestershire Florist
Wowser, well it’s pretty much a year since I got a dreaded email from my supplier stating that they didn’t know if the Dutch border was going to close due to the pandemic and if what flowers I had pre ordered were potentially all I was getting. The following weeks...
Louise & Stephen – 5am Start and Back on it!
Well it’s an early 5am start this Sunday morning... I’ve not done this for a while - September has become the surprise COVID-19 wedding month, and I couldn’t be happier to be creating wedding flower arrangements again. This wedding was one of my new collaborations as...
Dan & Sophie – Surprise Call & Shearsby Magic
I had a surprise call on Wednesday to do the flowers for a wedding at Shearsby Bath in Leicestershire the next day! A happy Thursday wedding amidst the pandemic. Yes please, I was overjoyed at the news. The couple wanted to get married before the Covid 15-person at a...
Wedding Flowers for Aby & Paul Against All Odds!
So 2020, the year of the Coronavirus has hit my industry (wedding flowers) HARD... I had so many beautiful weddings booked in this year that I was looking forward to creating flower displays and decorations for and understandably 99.9% of them have decided to...
Amanda & Kier – My Big Sister’s Flower Wedding (By Stephanie!) …
My big sister Amanda and I have always been very close; however, we are very different… She doesn’t even like flowers much * cringe face! * (I’m not going to lie it’s slightly frustrating some days!) Obviously when Amanda and my future brother in law Kier announced...
Sam & Greg – Wedding Flowers. Thank you!
One of the best things about my job is that I get to be involved in one of the most important days of people’s lives - their weddings. Every wedding is special to me and I am always honoured when a couple choose me to create their floral dreams. But let’s be honest...
Leicestershire Florist wins competition to create Festive Wreath for Number 10 Downing Street
In December of 2019, which seems like such a long time ago now, we won the nationwide competition to make and present a Christmas wreath to Number 10 Downing Street, beating about 40 different suppliers and growers to the top spot. With brothers Toby and Ben Ryley...