Pretty Pastels at Hendall

Back in the summer we had the pleasure of working at Hendall for some lovely weddings. It's one of our local venues and it's a truly beautiful setting with the "wow" factor.

For one of the weddings we were given the brief to do some summery, pale, pretty and natural flowers with a simple, just-picked look. The bride liked the delicate prettiness of meadowy flowers like feverfew, cosmos and scabious, which is always music to our ears! We tied little jars of cosmos and feverfew to the ends of the chairs and included a simple mixed foliage garland along a handrail. For extra impact we used two large free-standing urn arrangements with hydrangea "Annabelle", the wonderful dahlia "cafe au lait" and blue larkspur.

Ceremony table

Garland - 7m long!

Urn arrangement 

Perfection! Cafe au Lait growing in the polytunnel

Queen of Sweden Roses

We've had a difficult year with our roses as they have been plagued by aphids and suffered from water logging over the winter which was not good! They are perking up now, but one rose which has definitely been our star performer is the beautiful David Austin blush pink variety Queen of Sweden. Despite its delicate appearance it seems to be really robust and has been flowering non-stop since June. It has a good vase life, lovely strong stems and is fantastic for weddings. We love it! It starts out almost coral / apricot before fading to a wonderful pale pink which is simply beautiful. It looks wonderful with just some foliage in a bridal bouquet or combined with other flowers for tables etc.

Table flowers in our lovely vintage Wedgwood urns

Wedding table flowers with roses, peonies, and hydrangeas

Bouquet of Queen of Sweden Roses for a wedding at Wakehurst Place

Perfect Wedding Magazine Article

Really pleased to discover that we are featured in a beautiful article in Perfect Wedding magazine this month about a gorgeous vintage inspired wedding from last year. The flowers were all in tones of nude / dusky pinks, and we used some lovely cosmos, achillea, astilbe and dahlias with silvery green foliages like senecio and eucalyptus.



I hope you all agree it looks rather fabulous!