Jen Stuart-Smith

For those of you are curious about the ‘controversy’ surrounding our photoshoot…The stylist of the magazine usually gets help sourcing flowers from a national flower organisation. It’s probably best not to name it. When she asked them to help with our photoshoot — using only English flowers, and primarily ours — they were really hostile […]

I have to eat my words. We were rather dreading the photoshoot this week as we didn’t think Wedding Flowers magazine really ‘got’ the whole local, seasonal, flower thing. We felt a little like we were stuck between a rock and a hard place with the TV company on one hand, setting us the challenge

Blooming eck, this week has been busy. On Monday we had a meeting with the lovely ladies at Wedding Flowers magazine in London, to discuss a photoshoot we are doing with them next week. Because of the risk of swine flu, my blooming partner decided that it was best to stay at home in the

Bek and I have been away this week, leaving the plot in the capable hands of Auntie Mary (Bek’s mum) and the chickens in the care of Sue, who works in the shed next door, and Cousin Paul. As we predicted, sunshine during the day and showers at night have brought the flowers out in

We’ve got a rather lovely wedding to do this weekend, up in Greenwich. The mother of the bride braved our flower plot and shed, back in February and, despite it being rather cold and bleak at that time was remarkably enthusiastic about what we were doing. Now, a few months down the line and the

Welcome to our flower plot!Although this is the start of our blog, it is by no means the start of our story. That started many years ago, when Bek and I (Jen) were born into the same extended family, as cousins. A few decades later and here we are, starting up a flower-growing and floristry