These posies were quickly popped into an old bowl to keep fresh awaiting collection and just seemed to work.
MOVING ON
After 8 happy years at Cobbs Farm Shop, I am hitching up my shepherds hut and moving on.
During my time here, the flower shop has “blossomed” from a borrowed Gipsy Caravan and modest display of flowers and plants to its current Shepherd’s Hut, 2 sheds, canopies and lots of display structures encroaching further and further into the Cobbs car park!!
The time is right for a change of direction and my new flower shop will open in The Barn at Garden Art on Friday May 6 as part of the initial stage of an exciting project to create a collective of artisan retailers and craftspeople at Barrs Yard. My style of floristry and planting will sit very happily alongside the beautiful garden items that Travers stocks at his yard and we are all very excited by this new collaboration.
This move represents a big and challenging jump for me and I am particularly delighted by the prospect of no more winters out in the cold!
I hope you will visit me at Barrs Yard so I can show you around.
Wendy Lewis
Mothering Sunday 6th March
Bringing the Outside Inside
Just before Christmas I travelled to the south of Salisbury to do the wedding flowers for a very dear friend who I have known since he was 18 months old!! The wedding reception was held in a very beautiful old barn with a Tee Pee and fire pit!! We decided to use lots and lots of green foliage, white Gypsophilia and beautifully scented ivory Norma Jean Roses, all giving the sense of bringing the outside inside.
The tables had a mix of hugely tall arrangements, wooden bowls of foliage, flowers and chapel candles and simple full blown roses in an assortment of brass candlesticks - a real eclectic mix which looked fabulous.
