FLOWERS & FIELD
We love flowers and will talk about them for hours given the chance
Our favourite ‘arrangements’ are natural, wild, countrified, uncontrived, full and billowing. We love to use found, foraged and home grown flowers and foliage to bring the outside in, and add a strong sense of place and seasonality to your celebration. Whether that’s armfuls of cow parsley to fill an archway in May, a tumbling bower of rambling roses in June, or branches of Oak with acorns in September, our enthusiasm for creating something beautiful never dwindles.
We grow the flowers we use for our sustainable floristry in our Flower Field in Sussex. This gives us the ability to choose interesting varieties in the perfect shade. We relish their curving stems and greedily make the most of their seasonality. There is something so satisfying about how the seasons progress and the flower combinations change along with them.
Happiest creating BIG, overflowing installations that seem to have magically grown, we have a maximalist approach to our sustainable wedding florals.
BLOOMS AT THE BARN
The Secret Barn is home to Petal & Feast, there is nothing we love more than to flower all it’s nooks and crannys! A sweep of flowers here, flower chandeliers there, an arch over there and a meadow of bud vases to decorate the tables. Our flowers are grown just around the corner and it is so satisfying to use them ‘at home’. We can chat to you about all the many options for flowers at the barn when we meet.
Perhaps our proudest achievement is our ‘no dig’ flower field
We can be found there in any season, any weather, carting compost about, potting on seedlings, dead-heading Dahlias. It’s truly a labour of love. By growing our own flowers, we know exactly where they’re from, we know they have been grown in a low impact way and we also get to choose interesting varieties that really elevate our arrangements. You can truly tell the difference, our flowers are softer, more natural, the shapes are more organic and interesting.
What started as an experiment has really come to define our distinctive, unstructured, bountiful style. We love going to cut flowers for each wedding, finding the perfect shade, shape or scent to make each wedding unique and special.
We’re sure you will love our beautiful, field grown flowers as much as we do. Want our flowers at your wedding?
Which flower service is right for you?
Not getting married at the barn but need our flowers? No problem. You can choose from our Bespoke or our Off the Peg Service
Bespoke Flower Service
INSTALATIONS AND SET UP & STYLE
Our off site ‘Bespoke’ wedding service is for couples who love our flowers and would like us to create bespoke flowers for their day. This is the one to choose if you would like us to create flowers for your bridal party, ceremony and venue. Think BIG. Sweeping flowery staircases, magical hanging flower clouds, dramatic archways and entrances, ancient churches filled to the brim etc, etc.
We only take on a very limited number of these bookings each year..
Off the Peg Flower Service
TAKE AWAY FLOWERS
We make up your bouquets, buttonholes, flower crowns and can supply seasonal buckets of of our gorgeous field grown flowers for you to do your tables, or do your tables for you. Collection is from our base, near Steyning, West Sussex.
“People couldn’t stop talking about how beautiful they were”
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“The flowers were just amazing, and all grown in their field, I actually cried when I saw the ceremony arch – proper emotional.” Emma & Sam
Seasonal Sussex Wedding Flowers. A very brief guide to just a few of the flowers in bloom in our field.
JUST A ROUGH IDEA, SEASONS MERGE – WHEN DOES SPRING FINISH AND SUMMER START?
Spring – Fresh, delicate & scented.
Blossoms, buds, scented Narcissi, Fritillaries, Hellebores, Anemones, Ranunculus and frilly, Parrot Tulips and Foxglove spires, Sweet Rocket froth.
Blossoming branches, catkins, and wild-style foliage.
Summer – Lush, vibrant, English country garden.
Clouds of Ammi, Sweet Peas, Poppies, Cornflowers, Snapdragons, Garden Roses, Scabiosa, and the beginning of the Dahlias!
Wispy grasses, herbs (like Mint and Oregano for scent), and trailing jasmine.
Autumn – Rich, architectural & moody.
Dahlias, cosmos, zinnias, sunflowers, smokey Rudbeckias dangling Amaranth, Wild Carrot umbels
Seed heads, autumnal berries, and turning leaves from the field
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