Su Whale shares 10 gorgeous Christmas wreath designs to get you inspired this season.

Follow Su Whale's guide to making environmentally friendly Christmas wreaths.

Choosing greenery for Christmas designs? Use this A-Z guide to foliage essentials that will see you through the festive season and beyond.

Running a festive wreath workshop can be great fun and very rewarding, the key to success is to be organised and prepared.  So how to go about it? Here are some answers to commonly asked questions.

Su Whale is a florist and freelance writer with over twenty-five years' experience in the floristry industry. Su created a fantastic Christmas door wreath for the Floristry Trade Club; watch and learn as she explains how to make your very own. With insight into current trends, design technique and handy tips for construction. Watch how Su creates a beautiful Christmas door wreath reflecting the major trends for Christmas 2025, using moss, spruce, conifer and a selection of ru

It’s not just trees that glow at this time of year, some garden shrubs are capable of doing the same, and for me, Cotinus, or Smoke Tree....

Looking for a fast, eye-catching bouquet idea to boost your Halloween sales? In this short video, Su Whale shares a simple yet impactful...

Using pumpkins, squashes and gourds in creative floristry designs is a seasonal treat. Su Whale shares her tips for success.

Set the scene for Halloween with Su Whale's pick of the creepiest houseplants for your horror-loving customers.

It’s not just children who love Halloween, everyone now seems to celebrate and shops are capitalising on this trend, selling everything from costumes to candles to homeware. Pumpkins are of course essential at Halloween, with 24million reportedly being sold in the UK alone. This is where florists can get in on the action too and there is no lack of inspiration; Instagram, for example is flooded with 1001 things to do with pumpkins, from the tiniest of gourds to giant sized sp

Celebrate the Jubilee with royal purple floral creations. Su Whale suggests some regal flower combinations.

Jatropha is an unusual, coral-like flower that is just the thing for adding a touch of the interesting and exotic to autumn and Halloween designs. Orange stemmed with bright green berries and red tips, it originates from the Americas and has had, over the years, many uses other than floral, including tanning, dying and basket weaving.  A member of the Euphorbia family, Jatropha is a tropical succulent, and there are around 170 species in the group. They are not the most commo

Halloween is a great retail sales opportunity so get creative with your shop window displays and merchandising to draw in the customers.

Dahlias are back with a bang - long the preserve of fanatical gardeners, they're now the cut flower that everyone wants.

Su Whale celebrates the sunflower, that most emblematic of summer flowers