Be your own florist - pick and arrange your own garden flowers, with Sarah Raven
Join us for 'Be your own florist', a brand-new podcast series with Sarah Raven. Focused on the joys of floristry, Sarah will take you through the essential steps to bring the best of your garden to life in a vase. Sarah will be handing over top tips and advice she has learnt from the past 30 years of not only how to prepare flowers for ultimate vase life, but also how to arrange them beautifully in tried and tested ways for you to replicate at home.
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Episode 1: Conditioning cut flowers for ultimate vase life
For the first episode of ‘be your own florist series with Sarah Raven’ Sarah shares a fantastic crash course in conditioning your cut flowers, following her 5 S’s for giving plants the most impressive vase life possible, with guidance on the vital steps like searing stem ends, sterilising bulbs, and where to pick your flowers from.
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Episode 2: A tableful of flowers
Focusing on bringing the best of your garden to life in a gorgeous tabletop ensemble. Join Sarah as she demonstrates how she arranges sweet peas, erigeron, phlox and more, talking through the perfect approach to structuring them for their eye-catching moment in the limelight at any gathering.
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Episode 3: Home-grown, garden flowers - the best present you can give?
For episode 3 join Sarah as she shows the process from the stable scaffold-like base of foliage, to the simple, delicate addition of your most eye-catching flowers, and how to use the bride-bridesmaid-gatecrasher approach to balancing them perfectly..
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Episode 4: Arranging at scale in our Favourite Jade Vase
For episode 4 Sarah shows how best to use the flared neck and wide belly of a vase like our own ‘Favourite Jade Vase’, bringing bombastic structure to your arrangement both upwards and outwards.
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Episode 5: Flower razzmatazz in easy talk-over-table flowers
For the last episode of our floristry mini-series, perfect for any social affair - Sarah takes you through how to compose a stunning arrangement in a bowl for table flowers.
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