The Garden Museum is next door to Lambeth Palace, sitting on the bank of the Thames looking across to Parliament. It's a ten-minute walk from Vauxhall, Westminster, and Lambeth North stations. This year, as in many previous ones, they will host the inaugural 'Winter Flowers Week' from November 27th to December 1st, displaying seasonal flowers and foliage through enveloping winter floral installations.
What to Know About the Winter Flowers Week
Building on the success of the annual summer British Flowers Week exhibition, this winter edition promotes a seasonal and environmentally friendly approach to holiday decorating. Five floral designers will transform the museum into a winter wonderland. With sustainability as one of the most important aspects and characteristics of the event, the floral installations will be created using only British-grown seasonal flowers and foliage, as well as environmentally friendly materials and methods.
The inaugural Winter Flowers Week exhibitors this year are Catherine Foxwell, Joanna Game, Layla Robinson, Millie Richardson, and Stuart Fenwick, all groundbreakers and innovators in the floristry world, passionate about improving sustainability in the industry. The week will also include a Friday Late and a panel talk on November 27th, giving attendees a chance to mingle among the flowers with a drink in hand, live music, and floral activities. Keep scrolling to meet the florists who will be part of this cool floral event.
Meet the Designers of London's Winter Flowers Week
Visitors can explore five unique displays inspired by winter themes, combining natural elements like dried flowers and festive foliage with imaginative designs that bring forward the magic of the season. At the 2025 event, these designers will debut their magic and show you what's good and beautiful in the plant and flower world through amazing creations!
Catherine Foxwell
Catherine Foxwell is a wedding and events florist based in South East London. She started her floristry journey in 2015 after doing a two-year City and Guilds diploma in floristry, which allowed her to explore her creativity and learn all the fundamental practices of floristry. After freelancing in the industry, working with several top London florists, Catherine decided to set up her own business, and Floral Evolution was born.
Joanna Game
Joanna Game is a botanical artist with a studio on Dartmoor, Devon. Her work is informed by seasons and a sense of place, with Dartmoor’s wild landscapes – its woods, hedgerows, rivers and moor, providing her with inspiration and a larder from which to forage, adding a little wild to locally grown flowers for teaching, photography and design.
After 15 years of event floristry, Jo set up Beltane, a creative retreat for those who, like her, are inspired by the natural world. Taking place at Prussia Cove, Cornwall, guests spend the weekend using the energy and beauty of spring to paint, draw, arrange, and photograph flowers.
Joanna Game
Layla Robinson
Layla creates her unique art using materials collected from nature, combined with everlasting flowers grown in her garden on the Welsh borders. She likes to tell a story through her pieces. She lets the wild unpredictability of nature and its relationship with humans inspire and guide her ideas, leading to new and unexpected designs.
She has featured on TV several times, worked with leading brands, festivals, venues, and galleries, as well as many private clients over the years, and has created a book, 'Everlasting Blooms', published earlier this year by Greenfinch/Quercus books.
Millie Richardson
Founder of Millie Richardson Flowers, Millie began her career in marketing for various luxury watch and jewellery brands, but found herself increasingly charmed by the floral aspect of event production and design. Millie has since established her floral design studio, which is based in the Cotswolds, where she lives with her young family, and creates beautiful flowers for weddings, events, and private commissions throughout the UK.
Her signature style blends seasonal floral ingredients and a riot of color to create romantic displays that transform spaces into botanical wonderlands.
Stuart Fenwick
Stuart Fenwick was born the son of a hill shepherd and haberdasher in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland. A 4th-generation fiddle player, he found himself working in a local flower shop at 15. After studying folk music and ethnomusicology at Newcastle University, he continued his journey within the flower world across the North East, Edinburgh, and London, before pursuing his own projects and freelancing for numerous florists within the UK and beyond. Based on a 42ft narrowboat, he has found a passion for sustainability, local produce, and building community, with an emphasis on connection to nature, which is reflected in his own practice and approach to all aspects of his life.
If you wish to attend the event to be a part of this marvelous group of floral experts and designers, make sure to buy your tickets today! It's a magnificent opportunity not only to see inspiring creations featuring beautiful winter flowers but also to learn from great professionals.
