The Ludlow Flower Forager

The Ludlow Flower Forager Here’s the link:

https://theludlowforager.etsy.com

Kim : Forager, Flower Farmer, Florist

Growing and gathering with the seasons

Dried flowers throughout the year
Drop me a line to enquire - [email protected]

My Etsy shop is open!

28/05/2026

I’m declaring the Ludlow Flower Forager cut flower season for ‘26…
…OPEN!
Fresh flowers from this week onwards. It’s a short season, all done and dusted in September when I’m back to dried flowers for the long autumn to spring period.

But right now there are foraged grasses, wild stuff, garden grown flowers; all gathered and created into bunches, filled vases, jam-jars all summer long.
Is there anything more welcome than a bouquet of summer garden flowers, all fragrant and fresh and locally sourced?

Let me run through the basics for you here, then pin it to the top of my page, so that you can find this info when you need it for your order.

🍀Choose your design and price point from the list below

🍀Drop me a line ( here or via email [email protected]) with your request, nice and early, cos I do sometimes sell out, or have a big order to fulfil, and less availability.

🍀Give me a one-hour pick-up time slot so that I can be sure your flowers are ready and packed to travel.

🍀I will send you bank details and collection directions when you order. You’ll collect from my shady porch, to suit you.

🍀Pay by bacs ahead of calling, or cash on collection.

🍀I make every effort to sty on top of my messages - certainly twice a day - you’ll get a quick response 😊

🍀Your flowers will be fresh cut and arranged on the day you collect them, for maximum vase-life.

Jam-jars: £10 for a lovely short, fat,filled jam-jar, £20 for a taller large jar.
Wrapped bunches £15, £25
Hand-tied gift posy £20
Hand-tied bouquet £30
Filled glass vase ( ready arranged and perfect as a gift) £25
Chunky **basket of flamboyant but informally arranged flowers £40.
**guaranteed to be neither poncy nor stiff!

I plan be up early to cut fresh bunches, bouquets and fill fat jam-jars this Saturday, if you’d like one?🌱Wrapped bouque...
28/05/2026

I plan be up early to cut fresh bunches, bouquets and fill fat jam-jars this Saturday, if you’d like one?

🌱Wrapped bouquet £20
🌱chunky little jam-jars £10
🌱Larger bouquet £30
🌱Filled glass vase £25

After that, there will be flowers to cut most weeks during summer, just drop me a line to order yours 😌 - bit of notice appreciated…

Collect from the porch here in Ludlow from 10am - pick your ideal time slot and let me know.

Anglers cottage, Temeside SY8 1PB

Just a jam-jar of spring flowers, making its way in the world…This ever-changing, seasonally-led jar of flowers is my go...
13/04/2026

Just a jam-jar of spring flowers, making its way in the world…
This ever-changing, seasonally-led jar of flowers is my go-to every week for my local customers.
This week it was short, plump and filled with lots of bursting green twigs of sycamore and hazel.
These vary in size, style and price across the season from one like this at £7.50 up to £20 when I fill a big mason jar with roses and wild grasses in June.

Great for a treat, perfect for party tables, cheery on your kitchen counter…

Who knows what will catch the eye next week on daily foraging hikes?
Spotted a big clump of fresh mint yesterday, and early cow parsley coming through.

Here :
Sycamore
Hazel
Spanish Bluebell ( the thuggy one)
Cow parsley
Shepherds purse

And garden flowers.

The foraging?
I’ve got three approaches:

Farm-Foraged, permissively, for this kind of paid work (ie on friendly local farms, where no one is going to shout “ get off my land” and I sometimes get a cup of extraordinarily strong tea!)

Foraged from the wild; always with consideration, care and responsibly for my photos and personal enjoyment.

Foraged from behind the industrial estate, empty car-parks, any busy lay-by, garden escapees and other odd urban places for the sheer thrill of it.

Next jars available this coming Thursday and Friday (16th / 17th) content, as yet, unknown.
Then I’m off for a week of coastal adventures in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

29/03/2026

Final call for your own spring wreath this week, freshly made from Wednesday and up until Easter.

I’ve enough foliage and birch twigs to weave about 6 now for Easter, but plenty of the prettiest additions in allll the good pastel colours.

Teasels, cones, wheat, raffia and feathers for the au natural and butt-naked crew, too.

We’ll be pushing our luck to get a wreath created mid week and posted now, so I’d suggest: For local pick up only.
Unless you fancy trying your luck with Royal Mail 🐌 and don’t really need it for next weekend.

If you’re still too shy to commit, and don’t have a particular colour scheme in mind, I’m going to be making a couple of spares, perhaps look out on Stories ⬆️⬆️⬆️ daily and check.
No obligation, only if you’re scrolling and have nowt better to do 😉.
Spare Spares will then go up to Made at 16, Tower street.

Average price is £35 BTW
And don’t forget the value-for-money bonus: These wreaths dry out wonderfully, just keep yours dry and allow nature to take its course…

A March wedding, and a classic tied posy for the bride.Ingredients : A touch of sharp, crisp white - those Helipterum “p...
28/03/2026

A March wedding, and a classic tied posy for the bride.

Ingredients :
A touch of sharp, crisp white - those Helipterum “paper daisies”, contrasting with softer pinks and muted greens.
A lot of wild foraged grasses and bracken add that sage green background,
Mostly dried garden flowers with wild carrot blossom and pink canary grasses ( coloured with vegetable based dye )

Method:
As usual these days, from the first enquiry the whole process is completed via WhatsApp, Email and Instagram messages; which makes sending over colour samples ( we tried three combinations until we hit the sweet spot here for Jill ) so easy.
There’s a back and forth of ideas, additions, little changes, inspiration pics from the client and flower photos from me, it’s a lovely process and fully involves us both.

Once we’ve nailed her perfect design prompts, it’s my job to draw it all together in one perfect bouquet.
Here, Jill decided on a smaller bouquet and quite a simple, unfussy shape.

A gathered bunch.
Something picked from the fields last summer, and preserved for the spring.

That’s when those foraged wild elements come to play.

I adore these small, friendly wedding orders ( no huge arches or clouds - thanks) a few bouquets, a few buttonholes and perhaps a little flower meadow box or flower crown.

Jill tells me that she had a wonderful day ; it’s lovely to have been a part of something that means so much to someone.

My pics ( swipe along ) also show a neat little buttonhole and the flower meadow for the registrar’s table.

That sun, ☀️ at last: Inspiring the tutti-fruiti colours of spring in the latest batch of dried flower work.Alongside my...
25/03/2026

That sun, ☀️ at last: Inspiring the tutti-fruiti colours of spring in the latest batch of dried flower work.

Alongside my wild foraged materials and natural home-grown flowers, I’ve always needed to buy in extra dyed grasses for stronger, richer colour.
Small batch dyeing at home isn’t really a viable process. Since the new year I’ve been able to source biodegradable, compostable dyed grasses - all the colour, but a better backstory.

Downside? Well, they’re not fully fixed against colour-run like the mass-produced chemically dyed grasses, so no good for outdoor use.
I find a bit of colour rubs off on to my hands when I’m using them. But on the whole it feels like a better way, a small price to pay.

This batch of pieces were made at the weekend for Made at 16 in Tower Street, Ludlow where I’ve a little corner of the sales area for the next month. .16

I know the smallest wreath has already been snapped up.

There are some seriously good scented candles in the shop that keep luring in me in from too!

New, one of a half dozen new pieces created to fill my little corner of Made At 16 ( 16 Tower Street, Ludlow) Every week...
22/03/2026

New, one of a half dozen new pieces created to fill my little corner of Made At 16 ( 16 Tower Street, Ludlow)

Every week I refresh the range, adding new designs to refill the shop as dried flower hearts and little wreaths are sold.

Tomorrow, I’ve three wreaths and four hazel hearts to take along : A brisk week of sales had left gaps!
This week the colours, reflecting our spring weather, are warm, vibrant and brighter. Some include Easter themed additions.

There are price points from £12, and a larger item like this 35 cm dried flower crescent moon wreath sells for £30.

I’ve sold out of the popular small mixed bunches for a week or so, but will let you know what the next batch look like with an update here.
Thinking : fresh, warm shades for April.
Drop across to Instagram for constantly updated photos of pieces as they are made - many sell straight away from my posts and don’t quite get up to the shop!
Check Stories for the first pick 😉

It turns out that this emoji is my most used 😉. Used to be this 🙄 so maybe I’m mellowing ? Share yours if you dare!A we...
19/03/2026

It turns out that this emoji is my most used 😉.
Used to be this 🙄 so maybe I’m mellowing ? Share yours if you dare!

A week ( up to Thursday, anyway) of spring wreaths.
I’m happily taking your orders for collection or posting next week, the new boxes are here, large enough for a 40 cm wreath.

Imagine how good one of these will look in your porch ( or indeed on your kitchen wall? )

Can I just remind you of the stuff that matters?

~ Made with fresh box foliage that dries like a dream - no drop, good colour as it dries.

~ The longest lasting wreath, best of both worlds - fresh and dried combi.

~ Best for a porch, covered door or even indoors, these materials won’t last as well if exposed to the rain, but will still give you colour and cheer for weeks ( just not months…)

~ Designed on my own handmade wreath rings, cut this winter and woven from birch and hazel.

~ I include cones from the local woods, teasels from the banks of the Severn, and p***y willow from local trees blown down in those February gales. Twigs are obligatory but eggs and feathers optional.

Choose a colour, drop me a line and yours will be ready this time next week.
Sizes Priced from £30 to £45, your choice of colour, my interpretation of the design 😉.

Collect from Ludlow or
P&P breakdown = £5.85 Royal Mail medium parcel post , 48hrs tracked.

Find them on Etsy too ( link in bio at the top)

A shop restock last night, and the extra options ( choose personalisation ; colour, content egg or non-egg etc) for the ...
17/03/2026

A shop restock last night, and the extra options ( choose personalisation ; colour, content egg or non-egg etc) for the fresh spring wreaths with foliage and dried flowers.

The weather is looking great for the next few days, I’m working outdoors and plan to film a bit of the wreathing in action for those who like to see how they’re made, I love watching people making and crafting….

So, this update - lots were sold for Mother’s Day, it’s time now to start planning for Easter with wreaths and those low-calorie alternatives to Lindt chocolate eggs : Dried flowers hearts.

I think it’s lovely to welcome spring, and especially at Easter with a door wreath, these wreaths are full of twiggery, eggery, p***y willowery and strawflowers. 😊

If you’re local, pick up from any of these from Ludlow and save a few quid on the shipping costs. I’ve included these costs ( boxes are horrendously pricey to buy BTW) in the Etsy prices, so there are no nasty surprises at checkout!

Followers, I know you don’t all live close by, so the new Etsy shop is the perfect way for me to connect my products with you, and most can be shipped ( posted) in a couple of days.

As always, get in touch for anything bespoke - I love making originals for you all, and as always….
Link in bio ( top of my page, don’t-cha-know)

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