Flowers
Congratulations to Shane Connolly, author of A Year in Flowers and Discovering the Meaning of Flowers, for designing and co-ordinating the flowers at Westminster for the Coronation of their majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
Flowers often express the things we find hard to put in to words. Shane Connolly introduces The Flower Patch readers to the intriguing art of floriography. Click here to see the full article in the March issue.
Shane Connolly will be returning to America and running three masterclasses at FlowerSchool New York between 10th-13th April
Mastering the Art of Bouquets / Sustainable Practices in the Style of Constance Spry with Shane Connolly / A Salute to Queen Victoria: Decor and Traditional Tea
His delicacy of composition, hand-wiring skills, and taste level completely elevates this craft.
For further details of these masterclasses click here.
Style & Market Editor Dayle Wood heads to the Oxfordshire countryside with FlowerSchool New York to reap a royal tutelage in the wild art of English florals. Read the full article in the February issue of Veranda magazine by clicking here.
Let wedding flowers send a green message, says royal florist Shane Connolly in the Financial Times. The most thoughtful displays accept the constraints imposed by season and local provenance. Read more of Shane’s invaluable advice and the abundance of less by clicking here.
‘What I do is like good cooking – if you have beautiful ingredients, you can’t go wrong’. Read more of this article by clicking here.
Meet the florist to the royals who thinks heaven smells like lily of the valley. Shane Connolly talks to Alice Hancock of The Financial Times.
‘New book by royal wedding floral designer decodes the meaning of blooms.’
Fionnuala Fallon writes about Shane Connolly’s Discovering the Meaning of Flowers.
Every petal and leaf has a meaning, floral expert Shane Connolly tells Debora Robertson of The Daily Telegraph.
When is a bunch of flowers not just a bunch of flowers? According to Shane, favoured floral designer (or floral decorator, or flower artist, never florist… more of that later) for fashionable parties, gallery openings and the occasional royal wedding: when it’s a powerful totem loaded with hidden meaning…..
