WELCOMING US INTO HER FESTIVE HOME PIPPA’S WEDDING FLORIST SUE BARNES SHARES BEHIND-THE-SCENES SECRETS OF WORKING WITH ROYALTY
‘I told the Queen: “You can dry most flowers… Put them upside down in an airing cupboard”’
The scent of Christmas fills the air at Sue Barnes’s Sussex home. And, as you’d expect from the founder and owner of society florist Lavender Green Flowers, her elegant 17th-century house is decorated in exquisite displays of foliage and flowers.
Garlands of asparagus fern and sugar pine, eucalyptus and mimosa festoon the mantelpieces and climb the oak staircase, embellished with English garden roses and white wax flowers. Juniper berries and pomegranates sit on the dining table alongside purple and red ranunculus and hyacinths, a garland
