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An Autumn Wedding at Cowdray House

It was a glorious Autumn morning for Krisztina and Graeme's wedding at Cowdray House on 8th October 2016.  

If you look through this journal you may have seen that I was the florist for the very first wedding held at Cowdray House, at the end of June this year. Well, this wedding included the first actual civil wedding ceremony at the house.

Autumn is a great time to get married and at Cowdray House the views from the ceremony room out to the garden are spectacular with all of the colours of Autumn represented in the landscape.

The flowers also included colours from the Autumn landscape mixed with pink and peaches and the last flush of the English roses.

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The ceremony room at Cowdray House

The ceremony room at Cowdray House

The wedding reception in Buck Hall, Cowdray House, Midhurst, West Sussex

The wedding reception in Buck Hall, Cowdray House, Midhurst, West Sussex

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categories: Cowdray, Weddings, News, In season
Tuesday 10.25.16
Posted by Karen Watson
 

Autumn Rose Hip and Willow Wreath

The first of the Autumn wreaths; simple, wild and rustic.

For the wreath below I used willow, rose hips, crocosmia berries and rubus, which is a softer and more pliable relative of the blackberry if you haven't come across it before.

They look equally good outside or inside the house, although my resident robin would no doubt feast on the rose hips if I left this one outside.

This wreath is destined for the Cowdray Farm Shop as part of the Autumn scheme for the shop.

Hips, berries and willow wreath

Hips, berries and willow wreath

tags: autumnstyle, autumn, cowdrayfarmshop, midhurst, floralstyling, autumnflowers, rosehips, Thisflorallife, designstudio, Autumn wreath, cowdrayflowers, wildwreath
categories: A Walk in the Woods, The Nature of Things, In season, Cowdray Farm Shop
Monday 10.03.16
Posted by Karen Watson
 

The Abundance of Summer; Flowers and Fruit

It's been a really beautiful summer and I've been lucky enough to spend so much of it outside, arranging flowers, tending plants and watering (a lot for the potted plants that I sell at Cowdray Farm Shop) in the cool of the evening just before sunset; a magical time of day.

The summer season has been non stop this year and the event work, like the flowers, has been abundant. 

For this event at Cowdray House I wanted to showcase the abundance of summer flowers and seasonal fruits and also to showcase a small selection of the huge variety of plants that I've been selling at Cowdray Farm Shop this summer; verbenas, abelias, pelargoniums, senecio, clematis, honeysuckle, crocosmia, dahlias. 

A sprinkling of garden roses and a few unripe blackberries from my own woodland garden complete the look; the abundance of summer 2016.

The abundance of summer

The abundance of summer

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Summer table centres

Summer table centres

Garden flowers at Cowdray House

Garden flowers at Cowdray House

Freshly picked

Freshly picked

tags: countryhouseflowers, tabledecorations, dahlias, Cowdray Farm Shop, roses, seasonalplants, englishgarden, Eventflowers, flowers, Garden, slowflowers, Cowdray House, Midhurst, sunmergardenflowers, seasonalgardenflowers, Thisflorallife, britishflowers
categories: In season, Cowdray, Events, Weddings, Garden Flowers
Wednesday 09.07.16
Posted by Karen Watson
 

Wedding at Cowdray House - The beautiful Bride

This was such a beautiful wedding and the family were an absolute joy to work with.

Miranda and James got married on 25th June 2016 at St Mary's Church, Cowdray Park, Easebourne, Midhurst and the weekend reception and celebrations were held at the fabulous Cowdray House, Midhurst.

Miranda looked incredibly beautiful and I managed to take a few photos of her leaving Cowdray House for the Church. I'll post more shortly but here is one of my favourites...

Miranda leaving for the church

Miranda leaving for the church

tags: Wedding flowers, Wedding florist, June wedding flowers, Cowdray Florist, Bridal Bouquet, Midhurst, Thisflorallife, West Sussex, Wedding, Cowdray House
categories: Weddings, Events, News
Saturday 07.09.16
Posted by Karen Watson