Wintery day

Very cold day today, lots of snow here tonight hopefully sledging tomorrow! Here a couple of pictures of Sharrow Bay today Phils forced rhubarb is coming along well and there was some lovely bells of Ireland to go in the Wetheriggs pottery vase

Winter and Christmas 2012

Happy New Year and what a busy year 2012 was! At the moment things are quiet so a little holiday is planned at the end of the month, I've ordered a few lovely photos of weddings from last year so while I wait for them here are a few pictures of my own from October , November and December

Busy October!

Octobers here with what's promising to be my busiest month, with four weddings coming up- Winter and Daniel at Greystoke Castle, Leonie and Steve at Morland Hall, my brother William and Julie at Cliburn Church then the Roundthorn, then finally Ruth and Neil at The Fishermans Retreat in Lancashire as well as The Flower Bank annual Christmas open day and weekly Sharrow Bay flowers so watch this space for lots more blogs soon!

Lovely dahlias, greraniums, hydrangeas, snapdragons home grown at Sharrow Bay, in the flower room before they're taken in to the hotel

Your Wedding Planner, Carlisle Living Magazine Supplement

Very pleased to see that the Wedding of Tim and Julie at Knipe Hall earlier this year features in the 'Your Wedding Planner' with this months Carlisle Living which I always have a good read of to see who I can spot in the social pages! Have a look back in the blog or on my website www.greenwheat.co.uk for more pictures!

The wedding of Andrew and Gillian @ Knipe Hall

Here are some pictures of the flowers at the wedding of Andy and Gillian at Knipe Hall, each time I've been at Knipe this year something more new has been done this time it's the area between the dairy and the stairs to the barn all decorated and looking lovely! But back to the wedding I met Gillian and Andy when I was recommended to them by the lovely Caroline who got married at Knipe last year! And was delighted to do their flowers what a great couple, Gillian was exited about using my lovely milk churns so they went outside the barn , she had all white flowers in the barn for the ceremony and shades of green, pink and lilac on the tables in the dairy! Here are the pictures pre wedding, I also met the lovely Jane and her husband of Pink Leaf Catering and have tried to get some of her tasty menu in the picture too!

Table arrangemnts in The Dairy, statice, lizzy, phlox, gyp, barley, thalaspi.

Newly decorated, through to the dairy

Gillian's bouquet and one of the bridesmaids

Hanging heart to go in The Barn

Summer 2012

Well despite the awfull weather here apparently it's summer! One advantage of the weather is I've not needed to water my garden much and everything looks as fresh and green as it did in june, could do with some sun to ripen my tomatoes and encourage the roses to flower! On a good note I'm now the florist for The Sharrow Bay hotel and I'm loving it at the moment the gardens are in full bloom with sweet peas, sunflower, multicoloured snapdragons, fushias, scented garden rose and geraniums a florists heaven! Here's a few pictures of a busy summer

Wetheriggs Pottery jug with rose, snapdragon and chrysanths in The Conservatory at Sharrow Bay

Friday mornings in the flower room!

The newly created back garden

Bridemaids pommander for a wedding

Dave and Kasias wedding

Table centre of grand prix roses

In April I did the wedding of Dave and Kasia very good friends of ours they were married at Windermere Catholic Church and afterwards at Porto Restaurant  (where Dave is head chef and Kasia restaurant manager) it was a brilliant wedding and we loved it and it was the first time we'd been to a Polish-English wedding, here are some photos Ive included some of the brilliant cake too! Pawel Masterez took the photos.