flower arranging

South African floral designer, Jill Manson, believes in the powerful energy of flowers and plants. “The ‘power of the plant’ can help us heal by offering comfort and calm,” she explains. Based in Johannesburg, Jill offers intuitive hands-on flower arranging classes called “Flower Healing”. Jill shares with her students a thoughtful blend of floral elements with spiritual elements and floral design with personal introspection. “Connecting with nature is a beautiful way to find balance, re-align to your most powerful self, heal and grow,” she continues. “It is possible to find our true nature, through nature.” Jill shares her flower-class instructional techniques with us in this How We Bloom podcast.

 “Less is more"  says Klaus Wagener of Minden, Germany. Explaining the emerging  post-pandemic trend. That doesn't mean doing without. It suggests developing a  lifestyle of "consuming consciously while preserving natural resources."

Klaus is the CEO and creative director of BLOOM's Medien publishing house. This  well-respected trends forecaster, floral stylist, teacher, and author is  fascinated by trends.  He encourages florists to develop trend stories that connect new products with environmentally responsible  consumers.  "It must be an honest story," he cautions. He believes  that sustainability and honesty will now play a major role in the development of new products. Klaus sees a growing appreciation for seasonal materials, local products,  and the gifts of nature as a  guiding  spirit of the times. He asks the question -  "Is 'less' sometimes not even 'more?'

This newly-released flower trend podcast with Sharon McGukin AIFD, AAF, PFCI interviews enterprising guests who dare to do things differently. They share innovative flower tips, design techniques, personal growth plans, marketing and business ideas.  Brought to you  by Smithers-Oasis, this podcast encourages people who are passionate about petals to listen, learn, grow. "And, that's  How We Bloom!"

As part of the Candide Festival of Flowers, Tamsin interviews Georgie Newbery, whose whole life revolves around flowers, organically grown on 7 acres, where she creates the most dreamy bouquets, ethically.

She talks about her career path up to this point, discloses top tips for growing your own cut flowers and tells us about her favourite and most valued cut flower.

Georgie Newbery is the flower farmer and florist at Common Farm Flowers in Somerset. For the past ten years, she has been growing flowers for pleasure and profit, spearheading the resurgence in interest in locally grown British flowers.

Hosted by Tamsin Westhorpe
Edited, Mixed & Mastered by Antony Nascè
Directed by Helen Allsebrook

Arthur Parkinson, the nations young, blooming, initiative driven horticulturist, divulges how he's been inspired by women in horticulture, his career with Sarah Raven, his love of hens and how to mitigate rat crisis in the coop!

Also, he discusses how there are so many young people desperate to get into horticulture. Yet, there are so many more inspirational lecturers needed to inspire the next generation into flourishing in the sector.
 
Hosted by Tamsin Westhorpe
Edited, Mixed & Mastered by Joseph Main
Directed by Helen Allsebrook

Welcome "Grow, cook, eat, arrange" the brand new podcast by gardeners Sarah Raven and Arthur Parkinson, who've worked together for nearly ten years at the beautiful Perch Hill Farm in the South of England.

Sarah loves gardening in general but growing produce both food and flowers is the part she loves the most. She also loves to cook straight forward garden-picked food every day with the minimal amount of ingredients and palava but the greatest amount of taste!

Arthur is Sarah's florist who picks beautiful arrangements for photoshoots and open days at the farm, from buckets of scented sweet peas to huge armfulls of dahlias and towering gladiolus.

We'll be releasing a new episode every Friday, featuring a relaxed informative chat between Sarah & Arthur across a variety of topics. They'll focus on their favourite flowers currently growing in the garden and the tastiest produce on the veg slope at Perch Hill.

They'll talk about how to sow or grow them as well as how to harvest or arrange them, adding their favourite tips or methods along the way. As well as chatting about gardening and growing, Sarah will give you some of her favourite recipes full of food you can produce.

So whatever gardening you're into, whatever size your garden is, or whatever level of experience you have, there'll be something for everybody. 

You can find out more about the products used in the episodes and get in touch via our website. Enjoy the show!

https://www.sarahraven.com/podcast/

Get in touch: info@sarahraven.com
Shop on the Sarah Raven Website: http://bit.ly/3jvbaeu
Follow Sarah: https://www.instagram.com/sarahravensgarden/

Carol and Dee discuss a variety of gardening topics including cannas, fallow ground, cover crops, Martha Stewart, and the guilt one feels about the state of the midsummer garden.

Some helpful links:

'Silor Mini' cucumbers from John Scheeper's Kitchen Garden Seeds

Canna Bulbs from Burpee
'Tropicanna®' Canna Bulbs from High Country Gardens
'Cleopatra' Canna Bulbs from American Meadows

Cover Crop information and seeds from Botanical Interests

Carol and Dee's Blog Posts about Social Media:
Green grows the meadow.
A garden blogger’s tale. 

On the bookshelf is In Bloom: Growing, Harvesting and Arranging Flowers by Clare Nolan.

Martha Stewart on CBS Sunday morning  

Email us at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com with questions, comments, greetings, or suggestions for future topics.

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For more info on Dee, visit her website.

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