In November 1928, a Mayfair floral display created a furore. Two years prior, the heritage perfumer Atkinsons London had commissioned architect Vincent Harris to erect its flagship, a towering edifice ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cut flowers, cooking, adjusting the garden: summer holidays are with us again, the weeks that an overstretched ...

Flower arranging was once considered the suitable pastime of genteel upper-class ladies who oversaw their staff in entertaining and the running of the home for their wealthy husbands. Indeed it is ...

Oh, to be one of Fred Wilkinson’s flower arrangements! To attend soirees at Buckingham Palace. To draw an admiring glance from the Princess of Wales in the royal apartments at Windsor. To dazzle the ...

Belfast-born floral designer and writer Shane Connolly has long been passionate about how a 20th century pioneering florist turned arranging into an art form. That passion is now a reality with the ...

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A play about the superstar of floristry, Constance Spry, can be expected to look gorgeous. The Arts Theatre production of Anton Burge's new play, Storm in a Flower Vase, is classically elegant with ...