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Grown in our walled garden, arranged the day they’re cut. Weddings, houses, hotels.

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Week 41 · six varieties

This week’s cut.

Six things are good in the garden this week. We cut them at first light, stand them in cold water by seven, and they leave the studio by noon.

A wicker trug heaped with the morning’s dahlias, claret, raspberry, pink and apricot, wooden-handled tools tucked in behind.

1 of 6

Dahlias

raspberry, claret and apricot

Stem
45–60 cm
Vase life
5 days
Going to
the Saturday wedding at the barn

Cut when three-quarters open; they won’t open any further once they’re in water.

Close on one garden rose, fully open, the blush deepening towards its heart.

2 of 6

Garden roses

cream and blush

Stem
35–50 cm
Vase life
6 days
Going to
a drawing-room console, every Thursday

The last real flush of the year. Scented, loose, and gone by the first frost.

One shell-pink cosmos open above its buds, the rest of the bed soft behind it.

3 of 6

Cosmos

shell pink, a little white

Stem
60–80 cm
Vase life
4 days
Going to
the long table at Saturday’s wedding

Cut in bud as the colour shows. The more you cut, the more it gives.

Close among the asters: lilac heads with plum centres on fine, branching stems.

4 of 6

Asters

lilac and plum

Stem
50–70 cm
Vase life
8 days
Going to
the hotel hallway urn

October’s own flower. Long sprays, small heads, and they last the week without a fuss.

Copper beech leaves still on the branch, wet from the night.

5 of 6

Beech

copper, still holding its leaves

Stem
70–120 cm
Vase life
10 days
Going to
every arrangement that leaves this week

Cut from the hedge that shelters the beds. It keeps its leaves well into winter.

Two teasel heads on tall spined stems, more coming up below them, turning from green to bronze.

6 of 6

Teasels & seed heads

green turning bronze

Stem
80–150 cm
Vase life
3 weeks
Going to
the restaurant’s bud vases, and the barn doors

Left on the plant until the stems stiffen; after that they last almost for ever.

Weddings

Flowers for one day, grown for a whole season.

We plan your flowers around what the garden will give that week, then cut them the morning before. Nothing is flown in, so nothing is tired.

A long wedding table laid in white with oatmeal-check napkins, small glass bottles of garden flowers running its length.
A loose bridal bouquet of cream roses and garden greens, held low against a lace dress.
A buttonhole on a cream lapel: one peach garden rose, a sprig of fern, gypsophila and a green scabious pod, tied with white ribbon.

What a Fernhallow wedding includes

  1. A morning in the garden with us, in the season you marry, to choose from what is growing
  2. The bouquet and buttonholes, tied on the day
  3. Low table flowers, all from our own beds, set the afternoon before
  4. Setting up, and clearing away the next morning
  5. Nothing that lasts longer than the flowers: no foam, no plastic
Weddings
from £3,800
at least 6 weeks’ notice
Bouquet & buttonholes only
from £420
collected from the studio

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Houses & hotels

Standing orders.

A hallway urn, a console in a drawing room, bud vases down a restaurant table. We bring them fresh on the same morning each week and take the old ones away.

  1. Monday 7 a.m.

    A stone urn spilling with stocks, hydrangeas and roses beside a pillar.

    A hotel hallway

    One stone urn, changed whole

    How oftenWeekly

    From£340 a week

  2. Tuesday 10 a.m., before lunch

    A small marble bud vase of white flowers on a linen tablecloth.

    A restaurant

    A bud vase for every table

    How oftenWeekly

    From£12 a table

  3. Thursday 9.30 a.m.

    An autumn arrangement of rust, apricot and dried grasses in a clay vase, set against a white window.

    A house

    A console arrangement and two small vases

    How oftenWeekly or fortnightly

    From£180 a week

Within twenty miles of the garden. We take on a handful at a time, so there is sometimes a short wait.

The garden

Everything starts behind a brick wall.

An acre and a fifth inside old walls that hold the warmth. We grow every stem we arrange, which is why the work changes every week.

The cutting beds in the morning: roses and pink geraniums packed in front of an old brick wall.

An acre and a fifth inside the walls, a hundred and forty varieties a year, not one stem flown in, and all of it cut by five in the morning.

What the year gives

SeasonWhat we cutGood for
SpringMarch to May Narcissi, tulips, ranunculus, blossom Easter, early weddings, the first house orders
SummerJune to August Sweet peas, peonies, roses, cornflowers The height of the wedding season
Autumn NowSeptember to November Dahlias, cosmos, asters, beech, seed heads Rich colour; our favourite weddings
WinterDecember to February Very little: hips, dried seed heads, evergreens The garden rests. We plan, sow, and take a few dried and evergreen orders

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Occasion
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Visiting the garden

Garden visits
By appointment, Wednesday and Friday mornings
Studio hours
Tuesday to Saturday, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Next open day
Saturday 17 October, for the last of the dahlias