Botanika

Botanika Sussex based flower and garden company specialising in seasonal, sustainable event flowers, gardening and floristry courses.

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Floral Design, Styling, Events and Weddings in the South East of England

02/05/2026

Grow your own - 2 new workshops SALADS FOR ALL SEASONS 18th May and HERBS AND EDIBLE FLOWERS 19th May. Come and spend a morning learning all the best tips about growing a year round salad garden, aromatic herbs and beautiful and useful edible flowers. With a good succession and the right choices you can grow and pick salad leaves all year round. Both leaves and herbs and flowers are easy to grow in any garden space from veg patch to raised beds and pots and containers. A morning of learning and tasting and taking home tons of tips and ideas for a beautiful, delicious kitchen garden. For more details link in bio

Snowball viburnum, crabapple blossom and last of the tulips at Perch Hill this week.
02/05/2026

Snowball viburnum, crabapple blossom and last of the tulips at Perch Hill this week.

Upcoming flower classes at Floristry for DIY Weddings over 2 days for those sourcing their wedding flowers from local s...
01/05/2026

Upcoming flower classes at Floristry for DIY Weddings over 2 days for those sourcing their wedding flowers from local seasonal growers and planning to arrange it themselves. This is a fantastic way of learning essential skills for collecting, conditioning, storing and arranging your bouquets, floral accessories and venue flowers yourself. With lots of tips and ideas on making the best suited easy designs for your venue space while having fun with friends and family creating and decorating. Small, friendly classes with the best hands on tuition and freshest seasonal flowers from the Pitfield Barn Flower fields. 29th and 30th June 2026 - get in touch for more details and booking via message, email or link in bio.

So much beauty, so little time to post…Flowers for open days this week and the best week for tulips ❤️🧡💜 at Perch Hill
21/04/2026

So much beauty, so little time to post…
Flowers for open days this week and the best week for tulips ❤️🧡💜 at Perch Hill

A few more days to big up the little muscari Valerie Finnis with another post as it’s still flowering its socks off - al...
07/04/2026

A few more days to big up the little muscari Valerie Finnis with another post as it’s still flowering its socks off - all grown by myself and this time used in some bridal flowers in a bouquet and buttonholes, together with other blooms, blossom and foliages grown either in my garden or my allotment: crabapple blossom, purple hazel, forget-me-not, blossom from the hedgerow, snakehead fritillary, bluebells both native English and the Spanish (it’s really hard to dig these bulbs up as so deeply rooted, but at least I pull all the flowers before they set seed to stop them spreading and it makes a long lasting cut flower) When picking these bulb flowers I tend to pull the stem as it gives a longer stem for floristry work as opposed to cutting it.

Boxing Day today we headed out to the north Higashiyama district of Kyoto, where you can find lots of beautiful zen gard...
26/12/2025

Boxing Day today we headed out to the north Higashiyama district of Kyoto, where you can find lots of beautiful zen gardens around the many Buddhist temples, so a really great area for garden hopping. Of course it’s winter and no cherry blossom, with a very cold north-westerly blowing in from Siberia, so wrapping up warm is essential. Despite winter the garden we found looked incredibly beautiful with many ericaceous trees, shrubs, conifers, flowering camellias, and the beautiful moss that is cultivated here to act as a ground cover and background to everything. These gardens are famous for their mossy hills and slopes, so still lots to admire. Also bamboo groves, interesting ways of using all sizes of bamboo in garden fences, structures, bridges, well and drain covers. The trees are all pruned to create a tiered structure and the branches architectural beauty. I found plenty to see as a gardener and I can only imagine how beautiful the cherry blossom would look in spring. We took a bus up to the Ginkaku-ji temple or Silver Pavilion where they take raking gravel to the next level! Also from there you can pick up the philosopher’s path which is a 2km walk along a leafy canal, currently flanked with flowering camellias and in spring it’s all cherry blossom. They seem to have an invasive insect problem attacking the trees, so that’s interesting to read. Winding your way back along the path there are lovely cafes, shops and many more temples, including the UNESCO heritage Ryoan-hi temple with its famous zen gravel gardens.

Merry Christmas from the gardeners at Osaka Castle 🌲🌲🌲They had fun creating these messages by neatly sweeping the fallen...
22/12/2025

Merry Christmas from the gardeners at Osaka Castle 🌲🌲🌲They had fun creating these messages by neatly sweeping the fallen leaves into letters, bells and stars, to greet visitors around Christmas. Today we had an early start as we are Hiroshima-bound and expecting it to be a very moving day. The skies are clear and there’s beautiful sunshine. Wishing you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas 🕊️🕊️🕊️

We popped into the Osaka General Horticultural Centre this evening, which is a 5 storey retail cut flower/foliage/indoor...
22/12/2025

We popped into the Osaka General Horticultural Centre this evening, which is a 5 storey retail cut flower/foliage/indoor and garden plants store near Osaka city centre Namba area. I’m always so excited to see what florists and gardeners work with in different countries and this is not actually th wholesale market but a very good value retail store for gardeners and flower lovers with an incredible selection of cut flowers and especially sweetpeas, orchids, lots of seasonal cyclamens, poinsettias, masses of orchids plants and cut flowers. The most incredible sweetpeas, common and more special varieties, fantastic houseplants, cacti, air plants and foliages, cherry and peach branches to force, all set over 5 levels with the top roof level being a small garden centre with outdoor plants olives, bedding plants, palms and many more things. I couldn’t see any seeds but maybe in larger garden centres the stock those.

Today we had a very full day with an early start visiting the Shikoroyama stable in Tokyo to watch the sumo rikishi morn...
19/12/2025

Today we had a very full day with an early start visiting the Shikoroyama stable in Tokyo to watch the sumo rikishi morning training, then we headed to the Tsukiji fish market for the freshest sushi lunch. Nearby there is an ancient garden Hama-rikyu garden that was created by the last sh**un Tokugawa to create an outer fort for Edo castle. For those of you who may have watched the Sh**un series on tv - this is the same sh**un that was featured as the fictional character of Toranaga. Anyhow it’s a beautifully kept garden today surrounded by skyscrapers, and so many interesting things to see for gardeners. There is a 300 year old pine tree, propped up with many timber poles, they like a propping up here, many old trees get a helping hand when they otherwise would be chopped down in other cultures. Then there’s the very clipped, shapely pruning on each tree, accentuating the beautiful shaped of the tree structures. The snow and frost protection with conical structures and straw bundles. Also the beautiful buildings of the tea house and others that get rebuilt often as the original structures never last very long, either burn down or deteriorate, so many shrines and temples, palaces and castles are more recent replicas of the original. They embrace a rebuild here and don’t try and keep the old. More explanations of gardening techniques on the slides. Also I found a flower field, with lines of autumn sowing of some brassica type flower, maybe an honesty, chrysanthemum or stock, which I see here a lot in bedding and cut flower. **ungarden

We tumbled upon a small knife maker just near the place we’re staying in Asakusa. Originally we were planning to visit t...
18/12/2025

We tumbled upon a small knife maker just near the place we’re staying in Asakusa. Originally we were planning to visit the kitchen district for knife shopping but actually I think this local shop was the perfect spot. The owner family has had this shop for over a hundred years and they make all sharp things there themselves. They were so helpful and fantastic service and so glad we ended up choosing a few really nice tools there. So I happened to wander around the secateurs section and bought another carbon steel pair for myself with the perfect fit leather holster. The guy never heard of Niwaki 😀 as I was trying to explain my already existing pairs that have seen better days. I was told I really should dry and oil them each time I use them… so there we are. I’m planning to take care of them more in the future. Perfectly wrapped in Japanese newspaper. Love it 🥰

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