Page 58 • The HERALD • 11th December 2025 v THE NEXT HERALD IS OUT ON 8TH JANUARY v DOWN THE GARDEN PATH • HEDGE CUTTING • FENCING • PATIOS • TURFING • GARDEN CLEARANCES & MORE For a FREE quotation please call 023 8122 4550 or 07548 355262 AUTUMN LEAF GARDEN WORKS Winter is the Season – Demonstration with Jo Richards by Debbie Thorne, Foresters Flower Club Firstly, we would like to thank everyone for all their support with our “SWISH Party”. Due to everyone’s kindness and support we raised £440 for Oakhaven Hospice and everyone had a wonderful a ernoon with “new” clothes and lots of cake! Our next SWISH is event will be 31st March, 2pm, at Copythorne Parish Hall. Jo Richards started oristry at 15; is a Master Florist; Head of Academy of Floristry, Bournemouth and owns her own Floristry business. Her skills were very apparent in our wonderful evening with fantastic arrangements to be ra ed a er her exquisite demonstration. Firstly “Wellie Boots”: using sand for weight and then oral foam, owers owed over the boots in a tall design. Dried autumnal, golden leaves, fountain grass, birch, commercial foliage, scarlet and salmon carnations and buttercup coloured roses were included. One wellie could be lled and the other snuggled next to it, incorporating it in the arrangement. Next was an inverted lampshade with a container of oral foam inside. Eucalyptus and dyed plum eucalyptus, ivy with berries, lisianthus, carnations, roses and small, dark red chrysthanthemums made a beautiful, blousy, pink-toned design. irdly was a “table scape” type design. “Gin in tins” were sprayed bronze and stuck onto a long wooden board, with moss and ivy. is was a cut and arrange style, using spray pink/peach roses, fountain grass, plum sprayed eucalyptus, carnations and chrysanthemum in various pinks and caramel shades. en came a “hand tie” arrangement, arranged within a birch and pussy willow wreath and placed in a bulbous vase. Apple tea carnations, fountain grass, spray roses, autumnal leaves, palm leaves all formed the hand tie, which was secured with tape. Last, but de nitely not least, was an inverted crescent, arranged over a wrought iron stand. Flamboyant autumnal leaves, ivy and berries, pink lisianthus, caramel chrysanthemum, pink carnations, fountain grass, dark red small chrysanthemum, rosehips and burgundy kangaroo paws all made a feast for the eyes! Jo’s narrative about her life with owers was interesting and entertaining, making us giggle when she used her words such as “wild and wangy” and “ oppage”! She is decorating Mottisfont for “Cinderella”, which we think will be magical! Next meetings: ere is no meeting in January; the rst meeting in 2026 will be 5th February for e ree Musketeers – an in house demonstration. All are welcome, 7.30pm at Copythorne Parish Hall, SO40 2NZ. For more information contact Debbie on: 07769 830752. Jo Richards’ arrangements
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