Cut flowers recommendations, 2025

She rarely sows any annuals although she does grow sweetpeas. Nearly everything is perennial but her arrangements consist of lots of foliage. Foliage is handy as it comes in all different sizes, shapes and colours and a lot are evergreen and available all year.

She also uses twigs and branches. This time of year she tends to use a fair amount of dogwood as the branches are brightly coloured and branches of the Hazel contorta come in handy.

If you have any ivy near you, should be able to find it growing on trees in country areas, it goes well in arrangements in the Autumn when it is in flower. Unlikely to be any around this time of year. It can keep for a few weeks in a bucket of water.



We're lucky that we have a large garden with many shrubs so quite a few flower arrangers come round for foliage - a couple of them came round for two black sacks of them to do arrangements at Westminster Abbey for the coronation

When I get a chance to get to her computer I'll see whether I can put some pictures on here of some of her arrangements.