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JOURNAL
Representing creative individuals whose craft, skill and practices are all connected by a commitment to positive change.


Jun 7, 2024
COLOUR & CONNECTION WITH FLOWER FARMER FLORIST SARAH BARNES, ONE HALF OF WE GROW COLOUR
It’s been interesting to reflect on how our business has evolved over the past 4 and a half seasons


Mar 11, 2024
JOANNA GAME - BELTANE
For as long as I can remember I have been enchanted by flowers


Feb 11, 2024


Feb 9, 2024
UNA ROSA EN TERRITORIOS DESPLAZADOS: FROM GARDENS IN EUROPE TO FLORICOLAS IN PISQUE, ANDES
Charlotte More and Claudia Robalino


Jan 26, 2024
CISSY BULLOCK - THE SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABLE FLORISTRY
The late afternoon sun was slanting across the field, cutting across plots filled with late summer flowers


Nov 30, 2023
GREENING THE GREY - THE POTENTIAL OF PARKLETS
What seems like way back in 2019, my partner Rob and I entered a competition with Hackney Council to design a community parklet

Feb 6, 2023
WHY NOT BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
So why not buy roses in February? This is not a straightforward question and there is not a straightforward answer, but for us our findings


Feb 1, 2023
HAZEL BRYER - WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
Hazel Bryer is an illustrator and printmaker. She works mostly with linocuts, relishing the handmade process of cutting and inking up a...


Feb 1, 2023
EMILY ANN HARRIS - WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
Emily Harris’s work is deep rooted in her childhood growing up on a family farm. Nature has always been the central subject of her work,...


Feb 1, 2023
LAURA DIGGENS - WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
Laura ’s artistic practice is centred primarily on architecture, her background in landscape design and working with the seasons meant...


Feb 1, 2023
ED DINGLI - WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
Introducing Ed Dingli as the first of our WBR23 campaign artists - Ed is an illustrator and designer whose work is driven by...


Nov 18, 2022
KITTEN GRAYSON - KITTEN GRAYSON FLOWERS
Flowers evoke a sense of wonder, keeping me connected to the seasons and what is going on in the world around me.


Sep 16, 2022
VICKI BAKER -UNCUT STEMS
We were honoured to be part of Vicki's initial conversations with growers when she was setting up her British grown flower club during...


May 27, 2022
GRAEME CORBETT- BLOOM AND BURN
Last March I made the decision to use only British grown flowers in my work, by February this year I was waiting for a delivery of Italian g


Feb 14, 2022
WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
This is not a simple question and there is not a simple answer, but with the environmental and ethical impacts of our demands for unseasonal


Sep 9, 2021
BREAD & ROSES - FLORISTRY AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL GOOD
When I’m not in the fields growing or in the studio with SSAW, I work with Sneh Jani and Olivia Head on Bread & Roses


Aug 27, 2021
CHARLIE HARPUR - PLANTSMAN
Charlie Harpur is a plantsman, landscape architect and ultramarathon runner. After an initial stint stuck behind the computer at work...


Jun 28, 2021
CHARLOTTE SMITHSON - ON NATURE AS OUR TEACHER
My connection to nature began in childhood. I grew up in Swaledale, North Yorkshire and most of my childhood memories are outdoors. Each spr

Jun 13, 2021
ON THE YOUNG PROPAGATORS SOCIETY - GEORGIA WARD DYER
The Young Propagators Society was created with three intentions in mind: to aid the dissemination of propagation knowledge through the gener
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