Flowers fit for the Queen - top tips for flowering a vintage Marquee for the Queen’s Jubilee

Flower farmer and florist Georgie Newbery spends the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Weekend prepping flowers for a party for the whole village. With two antique green army tents to dress and a red white and blue theme Georgie creates a great country look using gale buckets and tin jugs, jam jars, and a wonderful mix of country flowers from her own flower farm. The scent from these Duchesse de Nemours peonies floats across the site as she hangs buckets of flowers to frame vintage flags, and goes round the old marquees, looking at the different dates the sections were made, some going back to the Queen's accession to the throne, one or two to the end of the Second World War. With all the ingredients available from a June garden in Somerset, the celebratory flowers are as cheerful as the party. Yes, she has to down tools from time to time to go and see the beacons lit for the Jubilee, or to take her daughter to the joint school's choir at Sherborne Abbey for the service of thanksgiving for the Queen, but slowly, over three days, the flowers are done and finally installed, ready for 280 guests to come and enjoy with a great free lunch laid on for the community where there's a piper and singing and great fun had by all.
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We have a whole host of workshops and demos, which are perfect if you're planning to do your own DIY wedding or event flowers. Most of these are online, with a couple taking place at the farm in Somerset. All the info here: www.commonfarm...
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