Roses

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    The Rose Garden

    Roses… wonderful, wonderful Roses. My favourite flower(probably). The scent is just  intoxicating, the colours and variants in tones and textures are beautiful. The luxury they add to arrangements is second to none, and have I mentioned the scent already?!

    This year, in a very soggy February, we moved and planted lots of bare- root roses in our flower garden at Holly-Bee. I think we can now say we have a Rose ‘area’, with over 120 bushes, and after that initial hard work of planting and pruning, the payoff is here.  It’s my ‘happy place’ to go to,  with the roses all flowering away, and the scent heady in the air.

    In a moment of deadheading I made up a bouquet and tried to capture the beauty of these blooms, with a little help from Buzz (our lovely spaniel puppy/dog).

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    Wedding Flowers

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    Wedding Fair Flowers

    We were thrilled to be a part of The Vintage Wedding Fayre, last Sunday in Exeter. It was great to meet lots of lovely brides, and talk flowery dreams and ideas. Our stand was packed full of British flowers, with early blossoms and stunning anemones from our flower garden at Holly-Bee. This was our first major picking of the year (pretty good timing), and it’s so exciting to be growing and picking our flowers to work with again!
    Here’s a sneak peek at the flowers we took: romantic, slightly wild styling as always… The colour palette was spot on for wedding flowers; April brides, you are in for a treat!

    Spring Wedding bouquet

    Spring Wedding bouquet

    bouquet detail

    bouquet detail

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    Jasmine vine detail

    Jasmine vine detail

     

     

    Pastel Anemones

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    Pastel Anemones

    The sun is shining down on our flower garden in Devon, it’s SPRING! And we haven’t been blown away yet (although a few panes on the greenhouse have). Our first batch of flowers are just about ready to be picked- anemones, whoopee!
    I’ve been wanting to grow anemones for a while now, they flower incredibly early, come in a beautiful array of colours, and they’re one of my favourite flowers. I had a rather disastrous experience growing them last year, with measly short, weak flowers, and plenty of rotted corms to boot. But this year… this year I think I’ve cracked it!
    I managed to source some corms of Galilee Pastel anemones (on my list for a while: it’s a long list…) They are just starting to properly flower, and they are incredible! Long, strong stems, and the colours are just spot on; lots of faded pastel and dusky colours. Perfect for spring weddings, and stunning bouquets! I’ll be using them in some floristry this weekend- pics to follow soon.
    So yes, exciting times at Holly-Bee; hurrah for spring!

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