Flower Shop Stories

Sprout & Flower in Mere in Wiltshire has been closed for a week for a re-furb. I called over today for the re-opening. Sarah, the owner, had been up since 5am but she was still smiling.
When you call in for your fruit, veg and flowers you can now sit in the window and have coffee and cake as you watch the world go by on the High Street....

Although my husband Billy and I are often in London for work, it is rare we have a chance to enjoy what this wonderful city has to offer. So this weekend we decided to spend a few days being tourists.
(First stop a pub in Covent Garden for a selfie.)
Here is a record of what we packed in, plus, of course, the flowers we saw. I can thoroughly recommend it as a fantastic way to spend a weekend....

Fate is a funny thing. Last week I came across a wonderful new flower shop, only to discover that they had contributed to one of the gardens at Tatton Park Flower Show.
I was visiting my friend Janice, who has just moved from Dorset to Lancashire, and I had planned the trip around the flower show. Janice is currently deciding what to do with her new garden - although...

I have known Sarah, the owner of Sprout & Flower in Mere, Wiltshire
since my days working at Ted Martin Flowers in Tisbury.
Sarah was Ted's manager there for many years, before deciding to go it alone and try running her own shop. She and her husband Bob were in the process of thinking of moving (their two sons were getting too tall for their cottage's ceilings!) when the...