It’s not too late to sow sweet peas - so easy to It’s not too late to sow sweet peas - so easy to grow and blissfully fragrant in the summer months. 
They were my mum’s favourite flower, so growing them now feels like a precious connection. Especially when I pick some and arrange them in her beautiful old blue and gold jug just as she used to do with the sweet peas my dad grew for her every year.
There are some really handy tips for growing success from founder of The Real Flower Company Rosebie Morton over on the blog (link in bio). Rosebie has a whole farm dedicated to sweet peas near Chichester so she knows a thing or two about the subject!
Main thing I’ve picked up from her is to allow lots of depth for root growth at this stage and to make my own supportive wigwams from twiggy branches when the plants are really starting to go for it and need a bit of direction. This photo is making me yearn slightly.
I love this image of my friend Jo - we were trying I love this image of my friend Jo - we were trying out tiny living for a feature I was writing - this was taken on our way to indulge in a spot of forest bathing. To be totally honest, we were both a little sceptical beforehand. But we were only saying the other day how taken aback we both were by the amazing effect it had. I’m working on some new ideas around the subject - will keep you posted. X
I’m currently working on a redesign of the whole I’m currently working on a redesign of the whole site - which has meant lots of photo editing and reorganising so much content. What’s been lovely (despite the claw hand from so much keyboard work!) is revisiting work and becoming engrossed all over again. I thought I’d share a few of the things I’ve been (re) loving - with links in the bio to the old site for now, but not for long…! X
This  image is from a feature about preserving garden roses. I’m going to give this a really good go this year, now I have a better idea what I’m doing. I know there’s nothing quite like a fragrant fresh rose in Summer but there’s a fragile beauty to dried and preserved flowers that I also love, don’t you?
Snowdrops 🌱🤍 . . . . . . #capturequiet #ins Snowdrops 🌱🤍 
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#capturequiet #instabritain #natureandnourish #thewildernesstonic #cornersofmyworld
Signed copies of Bex Partridge’s new book Flower Signed copies of Bex Partridge’s new book Flowers Forever to be won! My bio has the link to enter as well as to get a peek inside. Beautifully photographed by Laura Edwards, I really enjoyed escaping into the pages and making plans for my own garden - hope you do too! X
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There were so many wonderful ingredients to choose from we were really spoiled for choice. 
Sarah’s new studio is such a beautiful, creative space. Think fragrant botanical candles flickering everywhere, mulled wine and apple juice simmering on the stove and containers full of fragrant festive greenery, waxed fruit, dried flowers and oranges, pine cones, lichen covered branches and even tiny gold wax-dipped fresh crab apples. 
Thank you for being so patient with my lengthy ribbon choice deliberations Sarah - and for bagging up a second choice option (dusky pink) to take home! X.  #wreathmaking #wreath #wreathsofinstagram #sustainablewreaths #wreathdecor #christmaswreath #velvetribbon #christmasdecor #festiveflowers
I’ve loved Olga Prinku’s work for ages now - s I’ve loved Olga Prinku’s work for ages now - she came up with the genius idea of embroidering on tulle using nature as her thread - and the results are sublime - like this Autumn colours beauty from her latest book.
I’m delighted that Olga is offering a fantastic prize bundle to my readers. For a chance to win one of her beautiful new dried flower embroidery kits (in collaboration with @driedandfloral ) as well as a signed copy of her wonderful new book(published by @quadrillebooks , pop over to my blog (link in my bio). It’s easy to enter so why don’t you give yourself a chance of winning this very lovely prize? Good luck! 
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It’s packed with inspiration and practical ideas to help you become a visual story teller. Because, as Laura says, it’s the little moments that make up the fabric of all of our lives - and those moments are worth capturing and sharing with others.
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FLOWERS, MAKE · April 19, 2018

How to make a hand tied spring bouquet

Join me as I learn How to make a hand tied spring bouquet using rustic spring flowers and seasonal foliage with Pod & Pip.

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For me, one of life’s great simple pleasures is arranging seasonal flowers and foliage. I can potter for hours, happily filling the house with jars, jugs and vintage containers arranged with whatever blooms and greenery I have to hand. What I’ve never actually made before is a proper hand-tied bouquet. You know the kind. The flowers are arranged in a simple spiral, tied with string, ready to place into your vase.

When Sarah Williamson-Jones owner of Pod & Pip invited me to join her spring flower workshop I didn’t need to think twice.

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So, last Saturday morning I set off to rural Wiltshire with my camera, notebook and a light heart. The drive took me through the New Forest, still atmospheric with thick morning mist. Ponies were grazing beside the road, so progress was slow but magical.

The sun was just beginning to break through as I drew up outside the picturesque barn in Odstock, near Salisbury. There were 8 of us on the workshop and we began by chatting over cups of tea and the most wonderful cakes handmade in Dorset by Alix Fauvel Cakesmith.

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I’d glimpsed through the curtain into the studio where the most beautiful flowers were ready for us. I couldn’t wait to get started.

How to make a hand tied spring bouquet

Galvanised buckets of loveliness

Sarah had given each of us a galvanised bucket full of the most exquisitely chosen blooms and foliage. It’s all about the flower selection and Sarah has a fantastic eye for this. I adored her combination of Mentha blush roses, panda eye anemone, paper white narcissi, giant blush ranunculous Cloni Hanoi, bird berry and wax flower. As well as a wide range of other twigs and foliage for us to pick from.

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We moved through to our places and all put on our stylish grey Pod & Pip aprons.

Prepping the stems

Sarah showed us first off how to prep our flowers. You have to be quite brutal at this stage. All shoots, leaves and thorns need to be removed, to make it easier to combine everything later. Sarah explained that this makes it much easier to spiral the flowers into the hand-tied bouquet.

You don’t want unnecessary foliage or stems – just the top bits you’re going to actually see.

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This took a bit of time and I did have to battle with myself slightly about removing pretty smaller flower shoots. Sarah suggested keeping the offcuts for a smaller posy we could make later.

That made it easier to slice and chop with abandon and soon I had all my flowers lined up, ordered into groups of the same flower.

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How to create the spiral

The key, Sarah showed us, is start with something strong and woody. Like a sturdy rose stem, and then you add in, a piece of a time, holding it so the top and bottom are at 11 and 5 o’clock and then turning slightly before doing the same again. If you’re left handed, you’d place them at 1 and 7 o’clock.

Sarah’s tip is to think about pointing the stem of your latest addition to your right foot (or left foot if you’re left handed).

I found it harder than I thought to grip onto everything and hold in place whilst also thinking about what to add next. I got towards the end and decided I didn’t really like how it was looking. Too many flowers of the same type were sitting together in clumps and it was all a bit too tightly bunched. I think I was gripping too tightly and focussing too much on the spiral and not enough about the flowers.

how to make a seasonal hand tied bouquet

Don’t be afraid to put down and start again if you’re not happy, Sarah told us. So I did just that. It was a bit of a job untangling some of the more tender and wiggly stems, but I was glad I did. This time I held it slightly more loosely, a little further down the stems, and made sure I added the different types of flowers quite evenly as I went. I loved how the flowers, berries and foliage all worked together.

This is a rustic style bouquet anyway, so we’re not looking for perfection here. That’s always my challenge if I’m honest! I love rustic. I love things that are well-worn and imperfect. I just struggle to create like that myself. I have a natural tendency towards symmetry and always want everything I make to be the best it possibly can be.

Tie with string and tweak

Once you’re happy, you tie the stems together firmly with string. At this point you can do any tweaking you want to do. I was pretty happy with how it was, I just wanted to move one of the roses over and give a little more space to the narcissi. To reposition the rose, Sarah showed me how to put it back in where I wanted it, making sure to follow the angle of the other stems around it.

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Cut the stems to size

Tweaking done, it’s time to cut the stems to size. Sarah’s tip here is to hold the bouquet alongside the size of vase you’d like to put the flowers into and use that to guide the length. Then you hold the stems ends closely together before cutting in a straight line.

If you cut the stems as they’re fanning out, you’ll struggle to get the level straight. Once cut, you should be able to stand your hand-tied bouquet up by itself.

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Adding the cellophane water container

Sarah handed round sheets of cellophane and showed us how to wrap them around our bouquets to create a water container to keep them fresh. The trick is to position the base of the flowers in the centre of the sheet before you start. Then gradually gather and pleat around as you go, ensuring that none of the edges are below where you’ll be tying. Tie securely with string and then add water gently until there’s sufficient to cover the ends of all the stems.

Stylish grey cellophane was the next layer, added the same was as before. The finishing touch was a simple grey flower bag. Just beautiful.

Next we had some fun making little posies, using our offcuts and remaining foliage and flowers.

how to make hand tied bouquets

Aprons off, leftover leaves and stem offcuts gathered up into the bag for composting and time to go home.

All with armfuls of utterly beautiful flowers. What I loved is that despite starting with exactly the same raw materials to choose from, we all created something totally different.

Here’s a photo of us all together so you can see what I mean… I for one had certainly enjoyed learning how to make a hand tied spring bouquet.

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The perfect size for placing in a jam jar, my little posy is now sitting on the coffee table in my living room. I like the way the bronze coloured twigs look with the brass bits and bobs I have on there.

how to make a rustic posy

I am so pleased to have learned how to make a hand tied spring bouquet. It’s a technique you can use and adapt to any flowers or foliage. When I got home I had some fun taking some more photos. Can’t decide which I like best. What do you think?

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Why not have a go at cracking how to make a hand tied spring bouquet yourself? I guarantee that once you’ve got the hang of the technique there’ll be no holding you back! I can’t wait to have another go with some new flowers from the market and some greenery foraged from the garden…

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The idea is that you order a seasonal box of flowers beautifully put together by Sarah and sent out each Friday by courier. They arrive beautifully wrapped inside a branded Pod & Pid flower box. A lovely way to send a gift or simply treat yourself to beautiful flowers for the weekend.

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  1. Rachel Sheppard says

    March 15, 2021 at 8:58 pm

    Wax flower from Britain?

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    • Laura Dunkley says

      March 16, 2021 at 10:10 am

      Hello Rachel. From a quick look with the RHS plant finder, it looks like you can buy a selection of Wax Flower plants to grow in the UK here (although it sounds like they need TLC to avoid frost damage) https://www.crosscommonnursery.co.uk/search?controller=search&orderby=position&orderway=desc&search_query=wax+flower&submit_search=

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It’s not too late to sow sweet peas - so easy to It’s not too late to sow sweet peas - so easy to grow and blissfully fragrant in the summer months. 
They were my mum’s favourite flower, so growing them now feels like a precious connection. Especially when I pick some and arrange them in her beautiful old blue and gold jug just as she used to do with the sweet peas my dad grew for her every year.
There are some really handy tips for growing success from founder of The Real Flower Company Rosebie Morton over on the blog (link in bio). Rosebie has a whole farm dedicated to sweet peas near Chichester so she knows a thing or two about the subject!
Main thing I’ve picked up from her is to allow lots of depth for root growth at this stage and to make my own supportive wigwams from twiggy branches when the plants are really starting to go for it and need a bit of direction. This photo is making me yearn slightly.
I love this image of my friend Jo - we were trying I love this image of my friend Jo - we were trying out tiny living for a feature I was writing - this was taken on our way to indulge in a spot of forest bathing. To be totally honest, we were both a little sceptical beforehand. But we were only saying the other day how taken aback we both were by the amazing effect it had. I’m working on some new ideas around the subject - will keep you posted. X
I’m currently working on a redesign of the whole I’m currently working on a redesign of the whole site - which has meant lots of photo editing and reorganising so much content. What’s been lovely (despite the claw hand from so much keyboard work!) is revisiting work and becoming engrossed all over again. I thought I’d share a few of the things I’ve been (re) loving - with links in the bio to the old site for now, but not for long…! X
This  image is from a feature about preserving garden roses. I’m going to give this a really good go this year, now I have a better idea what I’m doing. I know there’s nothing quite like a fragrant fresh rose in Summer but there’s a fragile beauty to dried and preserved flowers that I also love, don’t you?
Snowdrops 🌱🤍 . . . . . . #capturequiet #ins Snowdrops 🌱🤍 
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#capturequiet #instabritain #natureandnourish #thewildernesstonic #cornersofmyworld
Signed copies of Bex Partridge’s new book Flower Signed copies of Bex Partridge’s new book Flowers Forever to be won! My bio has the link to enter as well as to get a peek inside. Beautifully photographed by Laura Edwards, I really enjoyed escaping into the pages and making plans for my own garden - hope you do too! X
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There were so many wonderful ingredients to choose from we were really spoiled for choice. 
Sarah’s new studio is such a beautiful, creative space. Think fragrant botanical candles flickering everywhere, mulled wine and apple juice simmering on the stove and containers full of fragrant festive greenery, waxed fruit, dried flowers and oranges, pine cones, lichen covered branches and even tiny gold wax-dipped fresh crab apples. 
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I’m delighted that Olga is offering a fantastic prize bundle to my readers. For a chance to win one of her beautiful new dried flower embroidery kits (in collaboration with @driedandfloral ) as well as a signed copy of her wonderful new book(published by @quadrillebooks , pop over to my blog (link in my bio). It’s easy to enter so why don’t you give yourself a chance of winning this very lovely prize? Good luck! 
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We have three signed copies of the book to give away - just click the link in my bio to find out more. There’s a peek inside and a lovely film by @xantheb to enjoy too! X 
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She had me at ‘sometimes I like to use giant sequins…’ 
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Hope you enjoy - and find a little bit of creative inspiration too. X

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