Hampton Court Flower Show 2021: how to buy tickets, live talk schedule and the best plants to buy
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With all the world exchanging flowers, I set myself the challenge to pick a pretty bunch from my garden. It has been a strange old year, with plants blooming out of sequence and birds nesting way before their time, but I was still surprised by the generosity of my plot. Nothing showy, but I came away with a fragrant snapshot of whatâs growing now.
I could delve deep into the language and meaning of these flowers, and tell you the arums denote ardour, bay constancy, cherry blossom beauty, hazel peace, hellebore scandal, myrtle love, rosemary remembrance, and sage esteem, but that would be telling. I just put them in a vase and let them speak for themselves.
Seasonal centrepiece: a suspended floral creation by Kitten Grayson
Credit: Kitten Grayson
Back in March, just as the first lockdown was ushered in, Fiona Haser-Bizony, owner of the Electric Daisy Flower Farm in Somerset, found herself in a similar predicament to scores of growers and floral designers across the country. The wedding and events industry came to an abrupt standstill with almost every booking cancelled.
The flowers, of course, kept on growing. But Fiona was in a more precarious situation than most – just one month previously she had launched a London shop in Hampstead, which was abruptly closed just weeks after it had opened.