Judith Blacklock is an author and owner and founder of the Judith Blacklock Flower School. [1]
In 2011, she organised Flowers@Chicheley Hall. [2] [3] She teaches and demonstrates at leading global floral events, including the Chelsea Flower Show. [4] and the National Garden Clubs of America. She has travelled and taught in Bahrain, Canada, China, Dubai, Turkey, USA, Japan, Spain and Kuwait.
Blacklock was editor of National Association of Flower Arranging Societies The Flower Arranger from 2003 - 2016. [5]
The Judith Blacklock Flower School is located in Knightsbridge. It is accredited by the British Accreditation Council and the specialised courses are accredited by the American Institute of Floral Designers. [6]
In June 2006, a rose was named "Judith Blacklock" in her honour with the proceeds going to Alzheimer's Society. [7] [8]
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, formally known as the Great Spring Show, is a garden show held for five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London. Held at Chelsea since 1912, the show is attended by members of the British Royal Family.
Floristry is the production, commerce, and trade in flowers. It encompasses flower care and handling, floral design, or flower arranging, merchandising, production, display and flower delivery. Wholesale florists sell bulk flowers and related supplies to professionals in the trade. Retail florists offer fresh flowers and related products and services to consumers. The first flower shop in the United States opened prior to 1851.
Constance Spry was a British educator, florist and author in the mid-20th century.
Floral design or flower arrangement is the art of using plant materials and flowers to create an eye-catching and balanced composition or display. Evidence of refined floristry is found as far back as the culture of ancient Egypt. Professionally designed floral designs, arrangements or artwork incorporate the elements of floral design: line, form, space, texture, and color, and the principles of floral design: balance, proportion, rhythm, contrast, harmony, and unity.
Interflora is a flower delivery network, associated with over 58,000 affiliated flower shops in over 140 countries. It is a subsidiary of Teleflora, a subsidiary of The Wonderful Company.
The floral industry is one of the higher industries in many developing and underdeveloped countries. Floriculture as an industry began in the late 19th century in the United Kingdom, where flowers were grown on a large scale on the vast estates. The present day floral industry is a dynamic, global, fast-growing industry, which has achieved significant growth rates during the past few decades. In the 1950s, the global flower trade was less than US 3 billion$. By 1994, it had grown to US $100 billion. In recent years, the floral industry has grown six percent annually, while the global trade volume in 2003 was US$101.84 billion.
Paula Shane Pryke is a British florist and author.
Thomas Moore was a British gardener and botanist. An expert on ferns and fern allies from the British Isles, he served as Curator of the Society of Apothecaries Garden from 1848 to 1887. In 1855 he authored The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. The standard author abbreviation T.Moore is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
The Boston Flower Exchange is a wholesale flower market located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded as a marketplace that local growers could rent cooperatively to sell their products in a space more suited to their needs than Boston's historic Haymarket open-air marketplace, it has been the focal point of the floral trade of New England for over a hundred years. Although originally a local growers' wholesale market, the Flower Exchange now features flowers and foliage from dozens of countries and has expanded to carry potted plants, glassware, pottery and other floral supplies. The Flower Exchange is not open to the public and is limited to members of the trade only.
Rachel de Thame is an English gardener, television presenter and actress.
The history of flower arrangement dates back to ancient Egyptian times.
The National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies (NAFAS) is a society of flower arranging clubs and societies in the United Kingdom.
A garden club is an organized group of people with a shared interest in gardening, gardens, and plants. A flower club is a similar group with a focus on flowers.
Rosemary "Rosie" Hughes, NDSF, AIFD, GCGI, is a royal florist of Queen Elizabeth II, based in Hamilton, Leicester.
Ming Veevers-Carter is a florist who represented New Covent Garden Market at the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show. She designed a floral portrait of the Queen which was the centrepiece of 10,000 flowers and foliage stems in a display called "Behind Every Great Florist". Photographs of this with the Queen appeared in the press and the display won a gold medal and the Royal Horticultural Society's New Design award.
Patricia Easterbrook Roberts was an Australian-born floral designer, author, and landscape designer who worked in Australia, England and the United States.
Theodosia Burr Shepherd was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in plant breeding. Called the "Flower Wizard of California", and "The Pioneer Seed-grower", Theodosia was the first woman in California and possibly in the United States to hybridize flowers.
Nicolai Bergmann is a Tokyo-based Danish flower artist and designer best known for his flower boxes, a technique that started a trend in Japan.
Pamela Underwood born Pamela Richenda Cubitt Montgomery-Cuninghame later known as Mrs Desmond Underwood was a British florist and nursery woman. She was an early enthusiast for flower arranging and she wrote about "Grey and Silver Plants".
Winston Flowers is a third-generation, family-owned and -operated floral retailer. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company has four Massachusetts retail shops—Boston, Massachusetts; Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; and Wellesley, Massachusetts—and one in Greenwich, Connecticut. The company’s design studios in Boston’s South End and Long Island City, New York offer daily delivery to Greater Boston, New York City, Fairfield County, and Westchester County, with the capacity to fulfill orders across the continental US through a network of partners.