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, …
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 …
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 …
As any commercial florist will tell you, flower arranging is the easy bit – at the end of the day its all about logistics. This was no less true for me and our trusty flower deliverer Adekunle, field supervisor at care agency KTs Angels, who …