Growing to Give
Hellooo from Flower Friends and a happy springtime to all you lovely people! Flower Friends is back, growing and giving flowers to bring floral love to the elderly and vulnerable in our local community. What a spring for blossom! Absolutely beautiful!! It’s wonderful to have …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
One of the many brilliant things about being a Flower Friends flower arranger is not knowing what blooms we will get from one week to the next, making it both creatively exciting and hair raising at the same time. Will we get enough focal flowers, …
This week, as I walked to the Brent Mencap and Harlesden Town gardens to gather their flower donations, I contemplated the language of flowers and their meaning to the vulnerable people we’ve been giving them to. As an obviously massive flower fan (I really do think …
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 …
This week your intrepid Flower Friend, worried about not having enough flowers to give over the Easter bank holiday weekend, received an unexpected and welcome message from lovely Lynda Stuart, secretary to the Kilburn Webheath Tenants’ Residents’ Association and chair of Kilburn Older Voices Exchange …
Aren’t plants amazing? One minute all you can see are leaves and the next they’re in full glorious bloom! How true of the plump orange tulips donated by Harlesden Town Garden this week, previously hidden in a sea of golden daffodils. My Flower Friend adventures …