Grow British!

A great week planned to celebrate British Flowers Week.  Monday evening Cathy from The Midnight Garden Flower Farm hosted a fantastic workshop for students on developing their own cut flower...

How does your garden grow?

There is something quite magical about your own flower patch.  Nurturing, watching and then cutting. If you would love to learn how to grow your own cutting garden we have...

British Flowers Week

British Flowers Week this year is 19th - 25th June and at The Cambridge Flower School we are preparing for a busy week.   New Covent Garden Market organise the...

Festival of flowers

Easter to many is now just a four day break, but we should remember that it really is a festival of resurrection.  Flowers are used throughout the world to celebrate...

Lilly Olivia Flowers

Many of our students go on to start up their own floristry businesses - some take a few months and others a couple of years.  With jobs and children sometimes...

Go "a-mothering"

Tracing Mothering Sunday goes back to the sixteenth century when people returned to their mother church (where you were baptised) for a service on the fourth Sunday of Lent. In...

Get creative this Christmas!

With only a few weeks to Christmas now is the time to get creative and make your design for your front door. If you have missed our workshops, simply follow...

Kisses under the Mistletoe

What is the story behind kissing under the mistletoe? Mistletoe is a plant that grows on trees, high up in the branches - particularly apple trees.  It is a plant...

Cambridge Flower Company

For many of our students finding work experience on completion of the Career Course or Floristry for Beginners evening course can be difficult.  So, to make it so much easier...

In the News!

Chuffed with our latest article in The Cambridge Magazine.  There is also a "How to" section showing you how to get the most out of your own home grown flowers....

The season for water...

Yes, really - it maybe summer, but there is one flower in particular that needs plenty of water (and I mean plenty).  The gorgeous Hydrangea! Cut Hydrangea will often last...

All in the preparation...

Like any business, there is plenty that goes on behind the scenes at the school in preparation for the courses and workshops. One person who is very special to the...