The List

 Cool blues seem to be the order of today...but we are changing the shop around tomorrow so watch this space.........

5.30 am yesterday..buttonhole making in your PJ's for the officials at yesterdays celebrations in Hungerford....
and 
the list (for those interested ) from the door wreath featured in the last post..
lilac,viburnum, daucus, fritillia,tulips, roses, scabious seed heads,anenomes, prunus blossom,euco,heather, clematis . 

Flower love

We got the most amazing cloony rannunculus on Saturday....just about everyone who came in the shop loved them....we have found the run of the mill rannunculus to be a bit hit and miss on quality this year, but these big beauties have been amazing with some the dutchman took home lasting over three weeks...we love them when they are big and blousey....like a ballerinas frilly tutu!!

This weeks wreath on the door.....we usually make these up each week from flowers that have just passed their best and we would not sell but are too lovely to put in the compost.....we didn't have many left overs last week so this  is just bits and bobs off the flower table that we thought would look lovely together with some  lilac which was being a bit temperamental....surprisingly it perked up no end when cut short and popped in this...

A Gold Star for anyone who can list all the stuff in this wreath!!

On the garden front, at last that biting artic wind has dropped and there is sunshine..yah!! We have just sown about 1000 seeds and put in 40 peony tubers( that's not them all ahh!!)......now heading for the showers...x

Give me your heart......

today was fraught with battles over a faulty phone line.....what a week to choose.....

but......we had a cup of tea and calmed down....

this is our fabulous heart wreath for the door..don't those colours just zing???

what are you doing on Thursday???? do tell.....

you know we can keep a secret!!!

Day 6 of the December Photo Project: Wreaths

A lush wreath in reds and golds. Can you spot the little rocking horses???

And one more... To show off... because we can! ;)

rainbow wreath

We never feel we are quite dressed as a shop without a wreath on the door... this is today's!!

Spot the delicious muscari..mmm

twenty one days and counting....

life over here is just a whirl of spruce, berries, coffee and food eaten on the hoof!!....

all the mini christmas trees are gone

 flowers ready for on site arrangements at the weekend where miss and ma magpie tried the novel art of flower arranging in the dark...not to be recommended...we arrived at the venue to find the tables not up and the plastic sheeting on the floor.. undeterred we carried on while a army type operation by the crew from 'rhubarb' worked around us...

..eventually it all worked out as it usually does

 the usual garb of floristry in winter..twenty layers of clothing..miss magpie has the added bonus of her baby bump

 to keep her warm!

 ..also this week the biggest wreath challenge..spruce, scots pine, eucalyptus, euco pods, berried ivy, something which looks like a cross between seaweed and a protea which i have forgotten the name of ( shame on me)...thistles,twigs all on a mossed copper pipe affair..there may be a partridge and a couple of french hens in there too....but as usual Martin had to try it on for size...whew!!

ALSO!!! just to let you know we won THIRD prize for our window in the town competition and we have a certificate...we were so excited about that...little things and all that..

We are on the final count down now and hope to surface about 6pm christmas eve in the pub. x

Our Week in Photos

The hedgerow are showing off their beauty...planted cyclamen in wire baskets smell divine, and are proving to be a firm favorite with our customers.

Pale Greens, and clear french glass inkwells, perfect for a single bloom, ivy or even holly lined down the Christmas table.

New festive Aubergine bags styled ready for the beautiful florals

Perfect dreamy scented Paperwhites fill the whole shop with the smell of spring...they are early, like most flowers and plants this year.

Honesty and pale white roses make an inviting wreath.

Our window display doesn't stay around for long, most of this is now sold, everyone is preparing their homes for the season

We have a rather beautiful angel ready for our window...isn't she stunning?

The ripening berries point to it being another hard winter...I hope you all have bird tables full to the brim with food!

Another creature not quite ready for winter...Bob is happy on his chair in a nice warm house, even the lead jangling is not getting his attention!

Are you getting prepared for the season? What are your plans? Are you having a real tree?

A Christmas with a bump...but without sloe gin and pate....hows a girl to survive?

New Course Dates!!

Pop over to The Magpie Academy for all our new courses for summer  and autumn, there is literally something for everyone, not forgetting lovely food and fun!!

If you pass our door every week you will notice that we have a 'thing' for door wreaths....there will always be one and they differ depending on which of the three of us make them.

Miss Magpie made this one..isn't it beautiful?

Our new mantra is.....

'Door wreaths....they are not just for christmas!!!'