Meadow At Moss Lane

06/08/2026

Half a bucket of flowers picked for a 30th birthday party today.

Orders of loose stems are a great way to get more for your money and can be arranged at home.
DIY wedding flowers are a great way to keep costs down and involve friends and family in the creativity of venue dressing.

31/07/2026

Full and vibrant funeral flowers for Jennifer.

This was a large casket arrangement bursting with dahlias and echinacea in shades of pink, peach, lilac and white. Stems of bronze fennel, achillea, three types of limonium, gaura and physostegia were in there too.
Plus sedum which the family can propagate into new plants for their gardens to keep forever.

This was a no floral foam arrangement, as always.

28/07/2026

16/07/2026

‘Cottage-core wildflower pastels’ was the brief for these wedding buckets. Orders like these are always fun to curate.

It’s interesting to me that people view flowers which aren’t the poker straight identikit imported ones as ‘wild’. To me these are normal. We have been conditioned to expect the unnatural. I wish flowers like these grew wildly in the verges … my life would be a whole lot easier!

15/07/2026

I checked the forecast this afternoon and it looks like another week with no rain due.

People keep asking me what I’m doing to keep the flowers alive and the answer is not a great deal so far.

I don’t have irrigation lines and I don’t have tunnels. Everything I grow is what is grown in gardens all over the UK. I am watering key beds that have the next two months of flowers in them with a combination of hosepipe and watering cans. For me this is dahlias, asters, echinacea, sea lavender, bidens, Japanese anemone and helenium. The rest is left.

For various reasons, I didn’t grow annuals this year (apart from a few sunflowers and those that have self-seeded). This has made life infinitely less stressful.

Once established, the perennials are better at dealing with weather extremes (to a point). They are flowering and going over more quickly than in cooler years, but they are still alive, and will still be alive next year.

I have been making notes all season - what to sow more of, what to move, what needs more space, which gaps need filling, what to give up on….

A question I am mulling over is whether there is interest in buying perennials from me in addition to cut flowers…? Sown and propagated right here, of course. 🌱

08/07/2026

Round two of more seasonal buckets on their way to .uk via

There’s so much in here I don’t know where to begin. The first of the bronze fennel, Himalayan honeysuckle, sedum still in the green, the last of the galega, drumstick alliums, spires of veronicastrum and lysimachia, the first echinacea, pastel achillea and daisy shapes in the form of leucanthemum and feverfew, plus plenty more besides.

The best of midsummer. ☀️

03/07/2026

Roses ready for a Mexican wedding tomorrow where the theme is pinks, reds and oranges.

01/07/2026

This is my favourite kind of brief.

Buckets of whatever is in season, in a variety of shapes, colours, textures and scents.

It’s so pleasing to wander the meadow and pick an edit of the best available. Much easier and more fun than working to strict wrap quantities and lengths.

These are off to .uk via the

22/06/2026

A casket arrangement for a funeral last week, using Mobberley-grown flowers and sustainable mechanics.

The design included sweet Williams, on the family’s request, as well as phlox, sidalcea, thalictrum, astrantia, nepeta, alliums and flowering galega (amongst others) in a pink and purple palette. For foliage, I used beech, hornbeam, mint, and oak.

No floral foam was used. Almost all of the mechanics were compostable and the small bits that weren’t, were recyclable.

Meaningful flowers, grown under the same patch of sky 🌍

16/06/2026

It’s British Flower Week! 🌸

This is where I grow all of my flowers - in the meadow behind our home in Mobberley.

The benefits of locally grown flowers are many …
🌱 Negligible carbon footprint and certainly no air miles
🌱 Grown without pesticides or herbicides
🌱 Creates a biodiverse environment
🌱 Scent! Fragrance is often bred out of imports
🌱 Unusual varieties not available in the shops
🌱 Freshness - from field to vase in 24 hours
🌱 Supports a local business