A floristry team will make account at this class ’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show with the first ever exhibit to showcase funeral floristry .
Funeral flowers make up a significant proportionality of the British floral industry , but this will be the first time they have been recognised with their own employment at the earth - renowned flowered exhibition in London .
New Covent Garden Market , the UK ’s largest and leading sweeping market , is shop with The Farewell Flowers Directory to stage the presentation using exclusively British - grown flowers .
New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms , London , is at the centre of the floristry manufacture in London and the South - East , supply the majority of independent florists , from eminent street retailer to in high spirits - end issue society .
The Market ’s client range from majestic palaces , to shops , market place stalls , hotels , office , parties , homes , and wedding and funeral organisers .
The diachronic exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show will feature an aesthetic reading of a funeral prospect , with an organisation of vibrant seasonal flowers and foliage bursting from an open willow casket .
The coffin will be held aloft by clean birch pallbearers , with wirework figures create by creative person Susan Nichols , let in a man and his dog , watch over the scene .
Nearby , a collection of personal testimonial will be nestled in the grass : walk boots filled with fresh flower , coffin sprays , wreaths , and design that can be apportion among folk and friends .
The exhibit , set in the spunk of the Great Pavilion , will glow a limelight on compostable , foam - complimentary funeral flowers , demonstrating that beauty and sustainability can go hand in hand - even at life ’s most difficult moments .
All organization will be made using sustainable floristry technique , exclusively spare of floral foam and single - usance plastic .
The Farewell Flowers Directory is a not - for - net income organisation that connect multitude with independent florists creating personal , compostable funeral protection . Its carbon monoxide - founder Gill Hodgson MBE say : " Funeral flowers do n’t have to look sepulchral ; they can be anything you want them to be . We go for our Chelsea exhibit will help depart conversations and permit people know that they have a choice — to honour a life using natural , beautiful fabric that muse the season and the soul . And to do so in a way that ’s kind to the satellite . "
For more information : The Farewell flower Directorywww.farewellflowers.co.uk
