About

Buckle up — it’s story time!

I have always been a fan of flowers and used to love watching them grow in the garden as a child, seeing which flower will win the race of growing the tallest and biggest. But my real floral obsession started in 2018, unfortunately at a loved one's funeral... I know it’s not a happy story, but it was a gift from them. Our family friend Fran Bailey did the flowers and I was enchanted by the way she had designed them to capture the essence and spirit of the person we lost in the floral design. I found it beautifully healing. From there I jumped on board to learn floristry skills at Fran’s flower shop in South London, despite living outside the West of London. After several months of 4 hours of driving a day, it took its toll. So I took a bit of a step back from the shop to do freelance work. This is where I really started to explore floral design for events, venues, film and TV, and my career was launched, but very short-lived before COVID dramatically stopped everything for everyone.

I continued to design with florals, but more digitally. I made handmade cards and paper with floral illustrations on them and started doing online sales for wreaths and bouquets from my Mum’s house. But it wasn’t enough to pay the bills. I was offered a job working in the Location department in the film industry, which I tried to balance alongside my floral design. Eventually, the film industry took over and - before I realised it - I hadn’t been working in florals for some time, and it didn’t feel right.

Moving onto my narrowboat, Decadence, in 2021 I had every intention to start doing flowers again, but it took me a while to figure out how I would do it in such a small space. In February 2023 I decided to take a leap — I stopped working in the locations of the film industry to make floral design my full-time job again.

Bouquets on a Boat was born and since then I have been traveling in and around the London waterways selling little flower bouquets on the towpath from Decadence, a little pop-up shop if you will,  hoping to surprise and brighten people's days with little fresh flower bouquets while also diving head first back where I left off working in floral design for weddings, events, media, editorials, and venues. Living the dream with my obsession of flowers and floral design on my boat with my cat who found me just weeks after starting Bouquets on a Boat   …. and no, the hayfever doesn’t and will not stop me!!