The Garden Museum in London is preparing to host the inaugural Winter Flowers Week exhibition from December 7 to 11 , foreground the beauty and variety of flowers and foliage maturate in the land during wintertime . The event will showcase floral installations by five renowned room decorator — Floribunda Rose , Shane Connolly , Hazel Gardiner , Carly Rogers , and Tattie Rose — who have been sport in previous British Flowers Week exhibitions .
Inspired in part by Shane Connolly ’s protagonism for efflorescence from the Farm and sustainable floristry , the Garden Museum initiative features a ' Shrine of Nature ' create by Connolly in the former church building outer space . The focus of Winter Flowers Week is to provide an chance for people to observe winter ’s innate esthetic and for designers to establish their capableness beyond the typical summertime heyday abundance . Despite the absence of cascade of summer flowers , Winter Flowers Week forebode botanically intriguing displays , enriched by the scent of winter - blossom shrubs .
bloom from the Farm members are actively participating in Winter Flowers Week , supply materials to decorator . Workshops host by Blooming Green and Leigh Chappell Flowers will further contribute to the event , with Floribunda Rose ’s Sarah Diligent among the five exhibitors .
persevering contribution brainwave into her design process for the exhibition , emphasizing the importance of fete wintertime flower and their often - overleap donation . The Garden Museum ’s broad brief focused on winter flower , sustainability , and seasonality . persevering and her team conceptualized and designed ' Winter ’s Embrace , ' a birdcage pergola structure showcasing British flowers . The design incorporates sustainability considerations , ensuring materials are repurposed for future events and blossom compost .
The floral palette for ' Winter ’s Embrace ' let in loss , purples , pink , and white for lightness . Diligent utilized a helpful tool , ' British Cut Flowers arranged by colour , ' to direct her flower selection based on seasonal handiness . Sustainability exertion extend to using fsc papers for print materials and employing hayfield loge as sustainable floral mechanics , avoiding single - use plastics .
The initiation will sport a variety of winter flowers , including narcissi , camellia , alstroemeria , ascend lily , daphne , genus Heuchera , winter - flowering clematis , trachelospernum , and viburnum . The unpredictability of blossom availability contribute an element of surprise to the exhibit .
Diligent convey excitement about make ' Winter ’s Embrace ' and looks forward to keep the knockout of British flower during the cool months . The installation aims to enwrap visitant in nature , offer an immersive experience fill up with coloring , texture , and beauty singular to wintertime .
