Kathryn Cronin

Artisan florist & flower grower in rural Cheshire creating her signature wild garden style floral arrangements. Weddings | Classes | Events

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🎁 What to give the gardener who has everything? Inspiration that's what! Over the coming days we’ll be highlighting some of our favourite gift ideas

🌺 #1 Wreaths or bouquets @Flowers_ft_Farm – we love these from Cotswold Flower Farm & @fierceblooms https://t.co/WvEZe4W5By

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

What do you adorn your Christmas wreaths with?

This flower grower and arranger is always on the look out for interesting foliage as well as British flowers I can dry to make everlastings when we are thinking about decorations for wreath making. Even bet… https://t.co/O40pHVjbEL

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

A Christmas wreath where less is more.....
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We had quite the journey around the world last year........and you'd be forgiven for perhaps wondering how we managed this seemingly quite impossible thing?

Well, it was through flowery friends like Kerin @… https://t.co/Yv3ahxiVMi

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

Are you creating your own Christmas wreath this year?
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Whenever I think about creating, I think of Pablo Picasso’s quote “every act of creation is first an act of destruction”
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And although his statement sounds both controversial and a wee bit de… https://t.co/CBa66wP5JX

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

And all of a sudden we’re wreath making……
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Always our inspiration for Christmas wreaths are the tradition and nostalgia of holly and ivy, scented pine 🌲 and eucalyptus grown just over the Welsh boarder by the lovely Neil @uklyptus
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And althou… https://t.co/kHG1E1Aspk

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

An everlasting dried flower wreath for All Hallows’ Eve…
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…..on the day when British summer time ends - and I usually forget about the change in the clocks 🕰- I am carrying our summer flowers with me still, in each and every home grown naturally d… https://t.co/32mqVLezZF

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

What have our Autumn 🍂 everlasting wreaths got to do with COP26?
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In a word Everything! Wreaths sustainably created with locally grown dried flowers is the way we’ve decided to grow- pun intended…..
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As a flower business you’d think we’d be i… https://t.co/ikr0VZlfcX

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

Autumn 🍂 Wreaths on the edge…..
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Well, I say edge. We’re at the moment when it is said the veil of this world is closest to the next on All Hallows’ Eve.
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On our stories we’ve been sharing the things we’ve been up to behind the scenes for our n… https://t.co/D4aKVBoyQD

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

I spy with my little eye…
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A heart shaped dried flower wreath….
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Signifying hope and luminance as we move into the darkest of seasons and the clocks go back this weekend.
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I spy ? Well just been playing this in the car with the miniatures w… https://t.co/ttzG6qAmjD

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

Behind the scenes for our Autumn 🍂 Wreath class…..
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……it’s a flurry of activity. As the leaves 🍁 drift down from our trees, fall has arrived inside too at the Wharf with a scattering of peeled honesty and jars of home grown dried everlasting… https://t.co/rbkph6nQ8T

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

Are you looking for a reason to start making wreaths?
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"Wreaths are not just for Christmas" is now a favourite fierce phrase here at the Wharf. We've seen a a surge in popularity for Autumn wreaths, especially with All Hallow's Eve.
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But whether … https://t.co/z7UXNklCGK

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

How to create everlasting dried flower wreaths without plastic sounds like it ought to be very doable......
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.......but in a quick internet search today, somewhere in those very natural looking wreaths....it was clear the plastics were lurking......… https://t.co/AdASO5FJhL

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

On a slow Sunday morning a slow motion twirly whirly wild garden style bridesmaid bouquet.
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.....from our last Autumn wedding a couple of weeks back.
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Do SWIPE ACROSS to see further details of the making of these sustainable seasonal wedding florals … https://t.co/giJjkZH7Qe

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

Autumn 🍂 wreaths are seasonal moments and the inspiration for our live online class "sustainable everlasting autumn wreaths"
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If you'd rather not leave the comfort of your own kitchen - you've had a long summer growing forever flowers and quite ho… https://t.co/TurjwUjGuW

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

Every autumn wedding stem and flower for this bridal bouquet, for the beautiful Alice and her kind gorgeous groom Mark, was grown here in our cut flower garden in Cheshire.
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It's our last wedding for 2021. ..... with velvet by the lovely Cheryl silkandp… https://t.co/qyzHSipCBF

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted so I thought I’d share a bouquet of our flowers grown here as we slowly end the flowers in our cut flower garden.

Our canalside cutting garden has had a few more cut flower beds this year too. As well as a eucalyptus … https://t.co/EWQ5i3I7Io

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

Cutting, dodging the showers and drying flowers...
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That's what we have been up to these last couple of days - ensuring our bounty of summer flowers we have grown for dried everlastings gets safely harvested and prepped for hanging up to dry.
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Ov… https://t.co/k49kAhzDJz

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

Quite honestly, I almost spilled my tea…….
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“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Andy Warhol famously once said. Well, in our case it was 2 seconds on the good old BBC last night.
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…….watching the RHS Tatton Flower Show… https://t.co/eA8QqlefRB

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

Feeling like a child in my favourite sweetshop........
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.....is how I describe spending time @the_rhs Tatton Flower Show.
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The weather's been warm - she says in understatement - but everyone has welcomed with open arms the opportunity to see some… https://t.co/B06XX2Mp2Y

[Kathryn Cronin @fierceblooms]

I have to say we had a bit of a giggle with the other floral peeps either side of us @the_rhs Flower Show at Tatton Park even as we all laboured away in the sweltering heat creating our individual floral creative visions.
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Today was day two of the b… https://t.co/nM0gkuxry7