Rose & Rhubarb Flowers

11/11/2025

Come and make a wreath with me!

Start your festive season in style: Come and make a beautiful traditional wreath with us at St Edmundsbury Cathedral.

25/10/2025

I've been ordering supplies for wreath workshops this week, and it prompted me to reminisce about my wreathing journey...

Eight years isn't a long time, but it seems a lifetime ago since that very first wreath workshop.

I may not be making or teaching hundreds of people to make wreaths anymore, but if anything I enjoy the few workshops, and the few wreaths I make, more than ever. And so many of the friendships are still here 🥰

Where will Rose & Rhubarb be in 8 years time? It's hard to tell, but wreathing will always be there ♥️

27/12/2024

Only 3 days late... My leftovers wreath - everything is a little past its best, battered by being left outside in a bucket through the stormy weather. The wreath base is 3 years old, and the wreath was thrown together in an hour whilst supervising squabbling children and a bubbling pan of cranberry sauce on the stove...

Much as I like leftovers (especially of the Christmas dinner variety), here's to 2025 being less chaotic, busy and stressful. I'm all here for calm, peace and an unhurried year 🕊️

Merry Twixmas one and all 🥰

02/10/2024

A bowl of early Autumn delights...

Loving the season change and the cosy evenings, woolly jumpers, crumble and custard, return of Bake Off...and the anticipation of lighting the log burner🔥 🍂🍁

I always love Autumn 🥰

Also starting to get excited about wreath-making and wreath workshops!

PS: Both workshops at .coffee are now sold out - some spaces remaining at workshops...link in bio 😉 Order book for bespoke wreaths is also full 😁

20/12/2023

Wreathmas...

SHORT

Now term has finished, I've finally had time to make my own wreath (albeit it's taken me 5 days to finish 🤦😂). It's a leftovers wreath - I literally crammed as much in as I could so I didn't waste any leftovers. More is definitely more, and it now weighs about as much as small elephant 😂 Pink and Red wouldn't be a combination I'd normally choose, but I think it works...?!

LONG

I've been a bit absent from IG - it's not that the wreath workshops haven't been happening (5 of them have) or that I haven't been making wreaths (a smaller number than usual but still lovingly crafted have been shipped out all over the country).

Why the radio silence then?

Being completely honest, it's been a bit of a struggle the last 8 weeks with a rubbish virus/sinus infection (almost certainly was the C word), and I still haven't got any sense of taste or smell, and have constant headaches and toothache from the sinus pain. Meanwhile the day job ramped up with the usual pre-Christmas craziness (concerts, carol services, end of term reports and the like), and something had to give...so IG and cleaning the house it was 😂

12/11/2023

The sacks of moss have arrived, the Christmas trees (plural) are being delivered this week, the ribbon box has been tidied, and the crates of dried fruit, cones, feathers and other festive bits have been restocked...

Wreathmas - I'm ready for you!

If you haven't booked your slot yet, there are a few tickets left for next weekend's wreath workshop with me .coffee and some for 10th Dec. The rest of the dates are sold out.

Get your Christmas jumper on and come and make a banging wreath for your door! 💃🎄💃

01/11/2023

Wreathmas 2023...

It's now November, and for me, the start of "Wreathmas" 😁

I know most of us are creatures of habit, but the creative part of me gets bored easily so every year I try to come up with at least one new wreath design (or when I'm feeling particularly ambitious, 12...😂🤦)

This is the first of this year's...soft pinks and plums, with feathers and cones...do we like??!

On another note, it's amazing how quickly the light changes - I made this in early October, and you can see how warm and bright the evening light was then. Winter light takes on a much cooler light - if I photographed it now, no doubt it would look completely different...

17/09/2023

"Autumn days when the grass is jewelled
And the silk inside a chestnut shell..."

Who remembers this one from Primary School?!
Or the other favourite "Cauliflowers fluffy and cabbages green"...?! 🙋‍♀️

The weather has definitely started feeling a bit more autumnal, the horse chestnut leaves on our drive to school are now rust coloured and it won't be long until the road is littered with conkers.

All this means that I now feel slightly more prepared to think ahead to Christmas - only slightly though!

Thanks to a very eagle eyed person, I've now identified and fixed the link for my Xmas workshops 🤦😂 Tickets are selling surprisingly quickly - so do have a look sooner rather than later - link in bio 😊

Details of wreath kits will be added to the website very soon, and I will be replying to all emails later today...thank you for your patience!

31/08/2023

Wreaths...well you lot certainly love a good wreath! My inbox has gone mad today with wreath and workshop enquiries 🤪 I'm honestly completely bowled over by all your lovely emails 🥰

Those of you wanting to book in a bespoke wreath - I will endeavour to reply to you over the weekend. Spaces are very limited this year and already filling up fast 😳

I will try and reply to everyone individually, but just to say that I am not offering (for the first time since 2020) any online workshops this year. Unfortunately setting up the studio takes a lot of time, not to mention all the packaging of the wreath kits, and time is something I don't have a lot of at the moment!

I have had a fair number of enquiries about wreath kits through the post...is this something people would be interested in? This would be accompanied by a downloadable, illustrated PDF guide to making a wreath, as well as a pre-recorded step-by-step video.

Do let me know your thoughts in the comments!

16/04/2023

For Amy...

It was lovely to be back flowering for a wedding again on Friday...and what a gorgeous cornucopia of flowers I got to choose from...

All the ruffles, frills and flounces... Ranunculus, lilac, sweet peas, tulips, anemones and the intoxicating scent of narcissus 😍 I was like a kid in a sweet shop!

I always make my bridal bouquets so that they look beautiful from any angle (no stress then for the bride making sure she's holding it the right way round!). However, I don't want them looking like a perfect dome of flowers (let's leave those in the 90s 😂)...
..So the question is, which side - 1 or 2?!!

11/04/2023

It's turning into a flower-filled week...

One of the things I love most about growing my own flowers is being able to surprise family and friends with a bouquet or, as in this case, an urn full of flowers...

Picked from the plot and the garden yesterday morning; a couple of hours later, arranged and gracing the table for Easter Monday lunch with the family.

Thanks Mum for the delicious Roast Goose - hope you're enjoying the flowers! 😘💐