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Winter Flowers Week

“This week, in London, a remarkable and quietly radical new exhibition is showcasing a different kind of Christmas magic. The Garden Museum’s first Winter Flowers Week (until 11 December) is full of ideas from pioneering florists that may change how we deck the halls in future.”The Guardian

This December the Garden Museum is hosting the first Winter Flowers Week, a celebration of seasonal flowers and foliage through immersive floral festive installations.

Our inaugural Winter Flowers Week exhibitors are returning British Flowers Week alumni, all trailblazers in the field and passionate about improving sustainability in the floristry industry: Shane Connolly & Co, Carly Rogers Flowers, Hazel Gardiner Design, Tattie Rose Studio and Floribunda Rose.

Building on the success of our annual summer British Flowers Week exhibition, this new winter edition champions a seasonal and sustainable approach to festive decoration. Our five floral designers will transform the museum into a winter wonderland like no other: with sustainability at the heart, their floral installations will be created using British-grown seasonal flowers and foliage, and environmentally-friendly materials and methods.

Winter Flowers Week will also include a Friday Late event on Friday 8 December, a chance to see the installations with a drink in hand while enjoying performances and festive floral activities.

We are aware that a small number of train operators are on strike during Winter Flowers Week. While this affects very few trains into London, full details of affected lines can be found here: industrial action information. Should industrial action affect your pre-booked ticket for Winter Flowers Week we are happy to be flexible with your time slot.

Scroll down to meet the florists!

Dates

7 December: 1pm-5pm 8-11 December: 10am-5pm


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.

@shaneconnollyandco

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.

@carlyrogersflowers

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.

@hazelgardinerdesign

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.

@tattierosestudio

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.  

@floribundaroseflorists


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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