Why we want to bring funeral flowers out of the shadows - Chelsea update

Carole Patilla, The Farewell Flowers Directory & Georgie Newbery, Common Farm Flowers

Georgie ponders mechanics and structure in Nicola’s Leamington flower studio.

Our directory is delighted to have Georgie Newbery on board as part of our RHS Chelsea Flower Show team, along with Nicola from Gentle Blooms and myself and Gill of The Farewell Flowers Directory.

This week, three of our four musketeers got together in Nicola’s Leamington Spa flower studio to test out ideas and mechanics for the main element of our Chelsea floral installation. In this video, Georgie (YouTuber extraordinaire) documents her thoughts on being part of the team, on funeral flowers in general and on taking part in this premier flower show - and her words say everything we’d like to… so over to you Georgie….

Watch Youtube clip from Georgie’s Common Farm Flowers Youtube channel describing why she’s delighted to be involved in supporting the work of our Directory and find out more about behind the scenes preparation for our upcoming Chelsea Flower Show display.

Support our Chelsea journey

RHS Chelsea Flower Show is a fantastic opportunity to put plastic-free funeral flowers onto a world stage and we’re delighted to have the chance to do so. However, it’s a very expensive undertaking, for which we need your support.

We’re very grateful for sponsorship from

• The Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management,

• Green Funeral Flowers and

• Workplace Bereavement

  and to all the lovely people who have already generously donated to our fundraiser.

  If you’d like to support us with a one-off donation and help us on our Chelsea journey, you can give online here.

  We’d like to thank everyone for the good wishes and donations which we’ve received to date - you put the wind in our sails (and, quite literally, the flowers on our display!)