The Knowledge

If you've seen the Evolve video you will know our founder Helen is a bit of an old hippy! Born in the flower power era to parents who constantly re-used, recycled and repaired as well as having a large garden, kept chickens, baked bread from scratch and grew vegetables; this foundation shaped her life and was probably why in her teenage year was nicknamed Hipz or Hippy Helen. How it started... "During early childhood I remember my parents taking me to a huge tumbledown commune, I'm not sure if it was out of curiosity or if they were thinking of...

Join Our New Instagram Page! --> Click Here 6 weeks until Christmas Eve - no comment!   TULIPS! Beautiful quality from Lincolnshire grower. These are cultivated from Southern Hemisphere bulbs that are given a cold winter in the fridges and then brought out to grow hydroponically (on water) without any peat and under glass. Some good strong varieties and next week Colombus doubles too. Pampas Grass  The fluffy pile is depleting fast - please don't ask me for it after xmas - when it's gone its gone! MOSS Plenty of Moss (we mossed 20 x 10" wreaths from 2 bags)...

7 weeks until Christmas and I've even seen twinkly lights in the front rooms already! Mossing wreaths and frozen fingers! Oh the joys of being a glamorous florist! I'm delighted to have our studio open; I've visualised this space for several years and this will enable me to do videos and tutorials to be added to our facebook page and website. Meanwhile British grown is majoring in Chrysanthemums and foliages. NEW this week - to celebrate #COP26 Welcome to our first drop-shipper who will send specialist foliages directly to you - freshness guarantee! It's easy for you to order online...

Can you believe British Poinsettia are going to be in stores next week ?!  The grower tells me it gets earlier every year! it's certainly a tactic to increase sales !! We will be collecting samples next week too so and discussions will continue with hauliers regarding transport of British grown plants as it seems there is demand! Do we miss Autumn by being so far ahead of the season? I'm most definitely done with pumpkins... lol... interestingly the scented Narcissi sold out in our shops last week too - seems consumers are certainly getting ahead! This weekend is the BFA...

What a blast we had at GFG Event last weekend - a packed schedule with presentations on photography, social media & marketing, pricing for profit, demystifying electric vehicles (I now understand a bit of what my teenage Top Gear fan is talking about!) plus some brilliant discussions, gift wrapping techniques and a bit of discoing too! And to catch up with some old flower friends and meet new ones was priceless - if not a bit surreal... the flowers were pretty awesome too!!  This week Evolving has centered around our new florist studio (YAY! We are in after 18months of...