WINTER

DECEMBER | JANUARY | FEBRUARY

It’s the end of the season; a last flurry of colour and texture in late autumn gently fizzles to the ground with the arrival of the first frost. For the flower arranger, this is a chance to celebrate the fleeting beauty of turning leaves, the dried skeletons of flowers gone to seed and the fragrance of cedar and pine; a time to embrace the quieter rhythm and slower pace of the coldest months of the year. In January and February the emergence of the first spring bulbs spell the beginning of the end of winter; spring is just around the corner…

Arranging flowers is experimental and joyful, a chance to be in the moment. As such, these recipes are not intended to be replicated stem by stem. We hope to encourage you to embrace seasonality wherever you are in the world, using what is available from your garden, local florist, flower or farmers’ market, and to introduce you to some special plants along the way. For reference we grow flowers in Hampshire, UK (hardiness zone USDA 8/RHS H4) with a mixture of outdoor and tunnel planting.