MY dream flowers look like a hedgerow to which someone has done magical things—natural, but a bit better.’ Victoria Martin has a beguiling way of looking at the old-fashioned English garden flowers she and her husband, Barney, grow in the walled garden at Stokesay Court, Ludlow. Their unashamedly romantic selections—not least their covetable collection of impossibly lovely roses—have long enchanted the leading florists they supply. For Shane Connolly, who designed the flowers for the wedding of The Prince and Princess of Wales in 2011: ‘Victoria has a real artist’s eye.’
Her priority is to seek out unusual and exquisite varieties: stripy flowers, silken petals that look as if they have been washed with watercolour and, most importantly,
