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The Power of Flowers

The Power of Flowers

Hello Flower Friends! Springtime left so quickly and now it’s the end of summer!  Can you believe it?! We gave hundreds of beautiful blooms and foliage grown in local and community gardens, including roses, peonies, privet, mint, shasta daisies, poppies, tansy, mallow, verbascum, hydrangea, toadflax, 

Farewell, the last rose of summer

Farewell, the last rose of summer

What a summer it’s been, and here we are already, in the cool hazy hug of autumn saying goodbye to the Flower Friends season, keeping ourselves busy by planning what flowers we’ll grow in time for next spring and drying flowers to create designs especially 

Hello dahlialings!

Hello dahlialings!

Can you believe it? It seems like only yesterday that our gardens were graced with the divine floral being that is the peony, and now, in the blink of a robin’s eye, were already in dahlia season.  There’s something going on the space time continuum, 

Peonies, poetry and the things we do for love

Peonies, poetry and the things we do for love

Glorious June, what an exciting month it was! We saw the Chelsea Flower Show (lovely to see the focus on accessibility – so in tune with our own philosophy of bringing floral beauty, love and joy to those who just can’t access outside spaces) and 

Stop the (flower) bus!

Stop the (flower) bus!

Have I ever told you how exciting the life of a Flower Friend is? I know, I know, but this week exceeded all previous levels of flowery excitement 🙂 It started on Tuesday, when I met lovely parent volunteers Jane and Kirsty at the Greenspace 

May the force of Earth Day be with you!

May the force of Earth Day be with you!

Today was Earth Day and everything in the world felt lovely and Earthy! It’s was also one of those magical spring days when Earth decided not to rain over NW (for some reason those folk in Dorset and the Pennines have been getting all her 

Harlesden Town Garden joins Flower Friends grow to give family!

Harlesden Town Garden joins Flower Friends grow to give family!

So pleased to announce that the volunteer girls and guys in the Harlesden Town Garden gardening group will be using some of their space to grow cut flowers specially for Flower Friends! They are looking for volunteers to plant seeds, water, cut and arrange the