Caroline Marshall-Foster
- Aug 17, 2022
- 7 min
Capes, magic and thinking big!
Caroline Marshall – Foster meets Richard Eagleton of McQueens Flowers and discovers why he thinks florists should wear capes! Meeting...
Caroline Marshall-Foster
- Jul 13, 2022
- 7 min
Sustainability, sticks and smelly water!
Meet Siân Wild, multiple wedding award winner and owner of The Flower Lounge in Didsbury, a pretty suburb of Manchester. She grew up in a...
James Crompton
- Jul 13, 2022
- 6 min
Tall, friendly and chatty
In theory James Crompton should claim the 'in my blood' reason for becoming a florist ... in reality he had absolutely no desire. Indeed...
Caroline Marshall-Foster
- Jul 13, 2022
- 6 min
Passionate, Loyal and Loud!
Wendy Rea’s passion for flowers started when she started as a Saturday girl at 13. It got her totally hooked and at 22 she bought a...
James Crompton
- Apr 11, 2022
- 7 min
Moses baskets, flowery Friday's and a couple of Awards!!
She started working in a shop when she was 14 – a love affair with flowers encouraged by her grandmothers, she’s had two children, both...
James Crompton
- Apr 11, 2022
- 6 min
Late starter turns dream into retail reality
Rachel Peers, who owns La Beau Fleurs in Warrington, Cheshire admits she was a late starter. Yes, she had always wanted to be a florist...
Caroline Marshall-Foster
- Apr 11, 2022
- 7 min
Singing, baking and how a pandemic rekindled the flower love!
We first met Nicola Evans back in 2018 when she came to help on the installations for the Leeds Castle Flower Festival. We’d seen her...
