Flowers from the Plot

It's been a fun weekend creating the flower displays for the Members' Marquee at the North Somerset Show, held each year at Wraxall on our beautiful showground that originally formed part of the Tyntesfield Estate. 

 Now that North Somerset Show is over I can look forward to another couple of busy weeks with a wedding and a christening this weekend and then...... I am so excited by my next project - a commission to design and create a display for a wonderful organisation.   The brief was quite challenging initially and it took me a while to work out my design, but once I got onto a theme, well, the ideas have just been fizzing in my head at all times of day and night! To represent such inspirational people is an honour and I am so chuffed to have been asked.  I will reveal the venue in a later blog but it is a great achievement for me to get British flowers in such a prestigious location that I can hardly contain my secret!

I have added this photograph as there will be lots of alliums used in the design and I am out there each morning talking to them - asking some to speed up and others to sleep a little longer - the pressures of having just the right flowers on the day - it all adds to the fun really?!  When I first visited..whoops! nearly gave it away then, there were beautiful alliums planted in waves throughout the garden and purple is an important colour to be used in my interpretation. Oak leaves are also another symbolic feature so I will be using a base of oak which symbolises courage and strength.

 For me, it is poignant to be using one of my Mum's flowering arranging stands, she had this stand made by the local engineering workshop and I found it dumped in the nettles a couple of years ago down at the farm, knowing that it would come in useful 'one day'.  I am so glad I did!  Hopefully she will be watching over me as I create my 'work of art in flowers'.