Winter Flowers Week installations
Winter Flowers Week installations by: Hazel Gardiner, Carly Rogers, Floribunda Rose, Shane Connolly. Photos by Aloha Bonser-Shaw
Winter Flowers Week Florists
Shane Connolly
Shane is a floral designer, international speaker, and author of five books. He champions sustainability in the floral industry. Shane works with the RHS to improve sustainability in floristry in their annual shows, and is also a judge at RHS Chelsea. He has written five books and teaches his approach to flower design all over the world. Shane’s clients range from great public institutions like The V&A; the RA and the National Portrait Gallery, to a veritable who’s who of the great and the good of British life. Shane holds a Royal Appointment and produced floral displays for events including the Coronation of His Majesty The King in May 2023.
Carly Rogers Flowers
Camberwell based artist and florist combining a passion for flowers and plants with contemporary art, design and sculpture. With a Master’s Degree from the Royal College of Art, Carly’s eye for design goes beyond the traditional floral arrangement and tells a skilfully crafted story. Previous work has seen Carly and her team create botanical installations for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, London Design Week, British Flowers Week, Sketch Mayfair in Bloom, and Chelsea in Bloom.
Hazel Gardiner Design
A London floral studio founded by Hazel Gardiner, botanical artist, gardener, broadcaster and Garden Museum Trustee. Hazel strives to be responsive to the seasons, producing designs for events, editorials, retail and campaigns. The signature style is exuberant and naturalistic often merging fresh, dried and edible materials with planting. Hazel has created floral pieces for clients including the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, BBC Gardeners’ World, Jo Malone, Levi’s and Sony Music.
Tattie Rose Studio
A close knit team of family and friends, Tattie Rose Studio travel throughout the country and internationally with highly skilled makers providing thoughtful, beautiful and exciting flowers and botanical sets for parties, events, select weddings and other interesting projects and commissions.
Floribunda Rose
Founded by Sarah Diligent in 2014, Floribunda Rose is a floral design studio and flower school based in Hampshire. Alongside championing and using British flowers, they use and teach sustainable floristry methods. The teaching ethos at Floribunda Rose is that floristry should be sustainable; the flowers, the mechanics, the business, and everything in between. Sarah and co-author William Mazuch wrote A Guide to Floral Mechanics, a book written to share their environmentally-friendly floristry methods.
Five winter flowers to use in your festive decorations
Ahead of Winter Flowers Week, we asked our exhibiting florists share their top picks for seasonal winter flowers to use in festive decorations this year:
Shane Connolly
Chimonanthus Praecox
My favourite winter plant is Chimonanthus Praecox, the aptly named ‘wintersweet’. In fact if I was allowed only one plant in my garden, it would be this.
It’s not much of a looker, but it is a sniffer….blooming when nothing much else does (before Christmas until February for us) with a scent that wafts through the cold air to delight and entice. I can think of few scents more beautiful. One small stem will perfume a whole room. And that is exactly how I use it: a small stem or two in small vases, punching above their weight beautifully and elegantly every time.
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