WINTER
CARE GUIDES, INSPIRATION & TUTORIALS
In the depths of the winter months, there is an abundance of fragrant evergreen foliage and surprisingly robust, delicate flowers in abundance, ready to help you create with ease and beauty. Within WINTER we share a hardy foliage care guide, how to boost the longevity of your cut hellebores, a step-by-step to create an impactful winter display that is perfect for an entrance table, a guide to teach you the steps behind creating a simplistic buttonhole, winter fragrance ideas, a dramatic design idea to bring large foliage stems indoors and some of my favourite late winter/early spring stems …
HOW TO WRAP (& ELEVATE) TULIPS
I have always loved tulips, in fact, before becoming a professional florist, they were by far my favourite stems. They are though often considered quite a plain flower, and despite the incredible and wholly positive movement towards a focus in floristry on seasonal flowers, the mainstream still considers red roses as the most luxurious flower for Valentine’s Day … I wanted therefore to find a way to help elevate beautiful tulips, just a little, with considered wrapping, whilst still very much keeping the focus on the beauty of the flowers themselves.
Simple Foliage Wreath - free mini tutorial
We first shared the free SIMPLE FOLIAGE WREATH mini tutorial last year, with hundreds of thousands of views and positive comments. It was so popular that we have brought it back this year, for everyone to enjoy and I hope hugely benefit from, once again.
Over 25 minutes, I guide you through the core fundamentals of wreath making, to help you create a brilliantly straight-forward and impactful design.
Click below to sign up and to watch a filmed preview …
SNOWDROPS & FRAGRANCE BOTTLES
It is very easy to simply walk/drive past dense clumps of snowdrops at the edge of hedgerows and woodlands, and not give them a second thought … but if you take time to stop and study an individual stem, you will notice their magic. Impossibly delicate, yet somehow they thrive in winter storms, seemingly not giving the severe winter weather a second thought …
How to Boost Hellebore Longevity
After the flowers appear, there are three stages to the hellebore and each require different conditioning techniques, to achieve superb longevity and vase life for cut stems.
Here I share these three techniques to ensure you can use hellebores with confidence in your designs …
Winter Table Design Step-By-Step
We often think there are minimal flowers available to us in the winter months, yet, these cold months have a bountiful supply of the most beautiful, delicate florals.
In the studio, I created a series of table designs for a weekend celebration, using a selection of my favourite late-winter flowers. Below I share how you can make a similar design yourself, and bring a sense of optimism and fragrance into your space …
FESTIVE WREATH - A BEGINNER’S STORY
I invited Chika, a food writer and photographer (and beginner to floristry), to share her wreath-making story.
Chika never thought she would make a festive wreath on her own; natural wreaths are a rarity in Japan - particularly where she lives in Nagano, Central Japan - and she considered herself “terrible” with all things crafts. She decided though this year was the right time to try …
FESTIVE WREATH - A FLORIST’S STORY
I invited Katie to share her wreath-making story. Katie is a professional florist who, during the winter months, offers busy women time to switch off from what awaits them at home and work, challenging their assumptions that they’re not creative and watching as their shoulders drop and faces relax as they get into ‘the zone’.
As with all things green and creative, her story is not so much about the making the wreaths themselves, instead it is about the life and feelings that surrounds it …
Eliza May Pottery
I first met Eliza about ten years ago, when we both lived close to Lewes in East Sussex with our young families. We met over many dinners and I remember Eliza enthusiastically talking about her longing to set up a ceramic studio. Her husband, Mark, manages a family tile business, so ceramics were already in the family and following a move to the North Cotswolds, her new home had a perfect additional studio space in the derelict barn …
How to Style Winter Decor After Christmas
Philippa and Pip Rich, editor of Livingetc, discussed aways to refresh Christmas wreaths into ongoing winter wreaths and additional ways to style winter decor. You can read Pip's article online now - we hope you will find a few inspiring ideas in there …
Winter Mantel Design - the making & behind the scenes
This Winter Mantel Design has been shared across 1000’s of Instagram platforms, I am thrilled it has been loved so much and it’s giving inspiration to so many.
Through a set of visuals, I share the ingredients I used, the base mechanics and steps to create the full design, plus notes on design considerations and a few additional complementary design ideas.
Brightlive with Colleen Kennedy Cohen
TUESDAY DECEMBER 7th at 3pm (GMT) - Colleen and Philippa will be discussing how to create beautiful arrangements for your home. Across a series six live classes - the flowers with Philippa being one - leading event designer, Colleen Kennedy Cohen gives you unique insight into her process of “How to Host a Dinner Party”. She’ll share her design philosophy, process, tips & tricks as she provides you with the tools to entertain like a pro …
Your Festive Wreaths
A selection of the most beautiful wreaths, made by you, from every corner of the world - a mixture of students from the Christmas Design Masterclass and from following the free wreath tutorial.
I love teaching and sharing my ideas, I love seeing your work and understanding how happy floristry makes people feel. Thank you to everyone below for being an incredible part of the Masterclass, watching the tutorial, for embracing floristry in such a wonderful way and for sharing all your inspiring images with me …
Notes From a Grower - Hortus Poeticus
Welcome to the first in a series of conversations with Flower Growers, sharing their passion, story and delving into the detail of one flower they particularly love.
I was looking for expert tips on boosting the cut life of hellebores and I knew Gillie and Fi of Hortus Poeticus would help me - with enthusiasm abound …
Telegraph Live - replay on Youtube
Philippa recently hosted a live wreath workshop with The Telegraph, teaching the steps to create a simple winter foliage wreath. If you watched the previous free Simple Foliage Wreath mini tutorial (which is still available to watch on our WEBSITE), she used the same techniques and you can watch the live on replay on The Telegraph’s Youtube channel …
Hellebore Vase Arrangement
Follow the link below to watch a 20 minute video tutorial on creating a vase arrangement with Hellebores. Welcoming in the new year, inspired by the new seasonal Hellebores coming through in our garden, with Winterbells and Queen’s White, mixed with delicate Ozothamnus.
Buttonhole Step-by-Step
This Guide will take you through each step to create an intricate and beautiful Buttonhole, please the detailed steps behind wiring single stems.
Late Winter & Early Spring Flowers
Our favourite seasonal flowers from foraged stems through to bold stems - catkin laden hazel branches, hellebores, paperwhites, butterly ranunculus, ranunculus, double tulips and anemones.
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Minimalist Winter Foliage Design
The scent of pine, conifer and cypress is truly uplifting and I was keen to bring this fragrance of woodlands into our home.
I hope this new step-by-step design makes you happy and inspires you to have a go …
Bringing Seasonal Foliage Indoors
There is something wholly honest about floral designs that are simply created with a mass of greenery … here we share ideas and a list of the best seasonal greenery for you to inspire your own designs.
Click on the button below to see and read the full guide.
Hardy Winter Foliage - care guide
I use a mass of different greenery in designs over the festive period and throughout winter. At this time of year, it’s the evergreen, hardy foliage that is left and available to use, at its most robust, it can last for weeks in designs.
Hardy cut greenery is straightforward to look after and with just a little bit of extra care, it will give you weeks of longevity for a variety of different designs …
Place2B Velveteen Woodland Wreath
Place2Be is a children’s mental health charity that provides counselling and support to children within UK schools.
As a florist I get enormous comfort from designing with and expressing myself through flowers, and I love that Place2Be offers an Art Room Initiative where children can thrive at school, using art to express themselves within a safe environment …
Winter Fragrance Ideas
It’s not just seasonal vegetation which is great for decorating, the right ingredients are also perfect to fragrance spaces on these wintry days.
Click below to be inspired with a very easy, yet highly effective home fragrant idea.
