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Why British flowers?

What's so good about being British? All our posies and bouquets use British flowers and foliage throughout the year. This can be quite tricky sometimes, but we like a challenge!  Thankfully, in recent years it has become easier to source British glass-grown flowers and plants in the winter months from large-scale growers in Lincolnshire and this helps to keep things ticking along.  We feel that the natural restriction of sourcing locally-grown flowers helps to ground our compositions and make them relevant to the seasons. There is joy in making the most of what is available at different times of the year. Every week we make a brand new composition and over the five years we have been making our posies...

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Ingredients sheet

Locally sourced ingredients We are proud to do things differently at MeadowSweet, and our Friday posies go out with their own ingredients sheet. Each week our flowers are lovingly arranged and delivered complete with information about what's inside and where it's been grown (printed on 100% recycled paper of course!). Our customers find it informative and educational to see how many different, fragrant and unusual British ingredients we manage to pack into our arrangements throughout the year. What's in the posies? Typically, our posies have at least ten different ingredients and our sheet will tell you what they all are and where in the UK they have been grown.  What's fragrant? All fragrant or scented flowers and foliage are identified on the...

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