Su Whale is a florist and freelance writer with over twenty-five years' experience in the floristry industry. Su created a fantastic...

After twenty-five years of flower shows at Tatton Park, the RHS have finally gone ‘on-tour,’ with this year’s traditional northern show...

Karen Barnes is an expert at identifying and interpreting key seasonal trends and translating them into commercial opportunities for...

Fresh, seasonal herbs can be fabulous additions to bridal bouquets and wedding flowers. Su Whale suggests some of the best.

Karen Barnes is an expert at identifying and interpreting key seasonal trends and translating them into commercial opportunities for...

Su Whale offers some timely tips for flower care and conditioning in the warmer summer months.

One of the most beautiful and delicate of spring flowers, the Poppy Anemone is a seasonal favourite.

Both evergreen and deciduous, Viburnum is a popular shrub for landscaping and is also used extensively in floristry. It’s in the spring though that one of the prettiest of the group takes centre stage, and that is Viburnum opulus, also called the Guelder Rose or Snowball tree. V. opulus is unmistakable with its large, nodding, spherical heads, made up of lots of tiny, lime green flowers. A deciduous plant, in its natural habitat it can grow up to 5m, although florists recogn

Lucky spring visitors to The Netherlands' Keukenhof Gardens are not just greeted by acres of glorious Tulips, interspersed between their banks of bright colours run rivers of blue created by thousands and thousands of flowering Muscari. Grape Hyacinth, as it’s commonly known, is a diminutive flower with tiny florets, packed tightly together to form a compact cone of blue or occasionally white. It’s not dissimilar in shape to a Hyacinth, however the two are not related. Far s

Karen Barnes is an expert at identifying and interpreting key seasonal trends and translating them into commercial opportunities for...

Karen Barnes is an expert at identifying and interpreting key seasonal trends and translating them into commercial opportunities for florists. Watch how Karen creates a beautiful Pantone inspired arrangement reflecting the major trends for the season, Floral Pathways. Using 'Apricot Stocks', hyacinths, 'Royal Salsa' calla lillies, and decrotive grasses, siergras (chasmanthium).

Catherine Jane Kirk shares her knowledge and expertise on the art of managing customer complaints...

Su Whale praises this perennial favourite and suggests how best to display and sell Phalaenopsis.

Petite and delicate, Miniature roses are perfect tiny replicas of their garden cousins and, it could be said, no Mother’s Day plant display is complete without them. Occasionally referred to as the China rose as they originate from the East and are a descendant of the old Chinese rose Rosa chinensis. Although only small in stature, their development over the past sixty years or so has been extensive, and there are over seventy varieties of miniature rose listed, available in

Karen Barnes is an expert at identifying and interpreting key seasonal trends and translating them into commercial opportunities for florists. Watch how Karen creates a beautiful Spring arrangement reflecting the major trends for the season, using 'Miss Piggy' rose, astrantia, gerbera, lisianthus, choisya and siergras (chasmanthium).