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I spent most of my childhood surrounded by nature, as I was lucky enough to be able to walk to my local woodland nature reserve with my family, including our lovely dog. I would spend lots of time, exploring the earth, climbing the trees and watching the insect life doing their thing, it was my happy place! Nowadays my happy place is a walled garden, in between Shrewsbury and Oswestry in Shropshire, growing flowers from seeds and bulbs and caring for them until they develop. I am creating this growing area into a haven for Bees and Butterflies, improving the soil and working with the rhythms of nature and the seasons. As I live in Welshpool, which is just on the welsh side of the Shropshire and wales border, I am able to deliver to both the Shropshire and Mid Wales area so please do get in touch. After spending much of my career as a Children's Nursery Nurse working for a private Nursery and then self employed, I decided to go back to college and do something I loved and that was creative. I re-trained for 2 years and qualified with City & Guilds, Levels 2 & 3 in floristry. When my training was coming to an end I found work as a florist in a local village florist shop and after in my local town shop. Having lived in London when I was younger I decided to head back there also, to gain some experience in a larger, high end florists, at Jane Packer flowers. Whilst studying floristry and after working in a few shops, we moved to Mid Wales to settle. I knew that I wanted to grow my own seasonal flowers and work with nature, sharing them with my local community and spreading the word about sustainable British flowers and slowly 'floralana' was born! I provide wedding and funeral flowers, as well as for DIY weddings, buckets of flowers for you to create yourself, hand tied gift bouquets, subscription flowers and gift cards. I also grow a few flower varieties in larger volumes for florists so please do get in touch. As an ambassador for sustainable church flowers for Powys I am available to give talks and demonstrations to flower clubs, WIs and those who are interested in learning more about sustainable floristry. If you are interested in joining me for a 1 to 1 or group workshop then please do get in touch. Follow me and keep up to date on workshops and events on my website, Instagram (flora1lana) and face book (floralana) pages. with love Lana x