From the farm gate: artisan flower farmers

As you may have noticed…there’s a very exciting renaissance going on for field grown flowers in Australia. One group is all about connecting small artisan flower farmers and for the flower lovers and  designers who seek their blooms. Consortium Botanicus – is a collaborative project, resource and directory to connect and promote micro-scale slow flower…

Florist profile: Wild at heart

Chris Campbell from Wild at Heart Flowers in Brisbane is a floral artist with a huge respect for her craft, nature and her role. Was it always flowers… I truly wish I could say I was lured into floristry by the loving garden hand of a grandmother or relative, and that the veins of horticulture ran…

Workshop it; the best flower workshops and masterclasses

A few new additions to the list of masterclasses and workshops below, including a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party for the school holidays.  For all the details, keep scrolling past all those stunning images from last year’s Masterclass by The Flower Dispensary  at The Estate Trentham captured by Katie Grant Photography. There’s loads of options to drench…

Top 10 floral Instagram accounts

God bless Instagram for bringing us the creations of floral artists from all over the world. At any given moment, we can be transported to flower fields in Cornwall, Washington State, or the west of Ireland. Or we can be in the workshops and studios of the best florists around, from Belgium to Australia, and…

Prunella – botanical styling from another time

Considered by Belle Magazine to be amongst the most innovative floral designers in Australia, Prunella’s work is utterly spellbinding. I’ll never forget the day I saw Prunella’s work. It was just on their website, I couldn’t even smell the flowers, but that was enough. My jaw hit the floor, I was mesmerised. Their botanical arrangements…

Profile – Margaret Ransfield, Clover Flowers

Margie, owner and head stylist at Clover Flowers in Melbourne has an unwavering passion for flowers. She’s been at it since she was 14 in both Australia and New Zealand, but launched her first Clover store for Mothers Day a couple of years ago in the heart of Melbourne’s Inner West. It was love at…

For the love of dahlias

There’s something magical about a field full of flowers, especially one with almost every colour on the colour wheel! For one of the most spectacular sites a dahlia lover could dream of, you have to get yourself to Winchelsea, Victoria in the Autumn. It may have to go onto your calendar for next year –…

The Flower Press Print Room

So excited to launch The Print Room – limited edition floral prints from the adventures of The Flower Press Blog. The first range is the queen of flowers, the peony, for Mothers Day. I took my children picking peonies at the Spring Hill Peony Farm last November. It was such a beautiful thing to do with…