Summer's here!

Turn the heat up in your home with this season’s hottest flowers
Chat date: Friday 30th June
Chat time: 3pm
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Summer is here and with it comes warm sunny days and long delightful nights. As we battle the stresses of everyday work and family pressures, what better way to indulge than by pampering ourselves and creating our own summer haven of the floral kind?

This summer, why not create an oasis to indulge your home with the intoxicating scents, textures and colours of summer flowers? Flowers are the perfect mood enhancer as their colours and aromas can blur the boundaries between inside and out, giving you the relaxing feeling of outside space, even in a city.

For this summer, the look is fresh, predominantly green with splashes of orange and purple. Flowers such as sunflowers, gladioli, alliums, chrysanthemums and alstroemeria can be used to create displays that are vibrant and larger than life.

Celebrate the good times this summer by creating a flower arrangement that’s colourful, vibrant and energetic.

Andrea Caldecourt from the Flowers & Plants Association is an expert in flower displays. She has presented numerous feature pieces on TV, radio and is also a regular at many of the flower shows Join her in our studio as she shows us simple tips to create extraordinary creations to turn our homes in to floral paradises.

Andrea Caldecourt joins us live in for a flower arranging tutorial in the webchats studio on Friday 30th June at 3pm

Andrea Caldecourt has been working in the horticultural industry for 11 years, and has co-presented numerous broadcasts, and dressed award winning stands at consumer exhibitions.