Phew, it's all go..

It's been a busy weekend here at Wild Acre - including a stall at our local village school summer fair on Saturday. It went really well, despite some tense moments with raffia at 6am!! Feedback was great and of over 20 bouquets made only 2 came home unsold.

The stall looked pretty...

Here's a close up of the bouquets,

full of early summer garden flowers.

I am very delighted to say that Wild Acre is up and running and even, thrillingly, creating some lush bouquets!! I am working hard in the garden and finding my mojo picking flowers arranging them! Some bouquets are stylish in a very simple way, like the one pictured above, and others are a little more sophisticated. At the moment, alliums are in their full glory and perfect as gorgeous cut flowers. I have been picking them early, so that they are fresh in the vase for over a week - opening out more each day to the size of a tennis ball starburst!

Thank you to my lovely friends for their encouragement!xx

New shoots in more ways than one...

Apart from one lovely week in April it has been a cold, hard Spring, so it was great to go out into a sunshiny garden today and seeing it beginning to look like it should in late spring.

The alliums have shot up, a few it would seem too fast and now leaning slightly wonkily, like lanky teenagers who are suprised by their own lengthy limbs! They do give a fantastic sense of energy and glamour and I love them. Tomorrow, early morning I will be cutting some for a bouquet requested by a neighbour - a bunch on their own with just a couple of wisps of early Stipa gigantea.

So new shoots in the garden and the teenyweeny beginnings of a new business idea too. The bouquet tomorrow will be one of the first made by Wild Acre, that's me, cutting flowers from my garden, hedgerows and riverbank as nature provides them, and making handtied bouquets and posies. I'm so excited!