Dahlias until the first frost,the first chrysanthemums,and rose hips on the branch.
Week 43 · 19–24 October
Linnell Flowers is a florist on Sheep Street, Sedgecombe. We make bouquets to order, flowers for weddings, and sell stems by the bunch.
Opens today at 9am
Order flowersShop14 Sheep Street · since 2011& workroom
Linnell is a flower shop with a workroom behind the counter. Everything that goes out of the door is made at the bench you can see from the till: bouquets to order, wedding and event flowers, and the bunches in the buckets out front.
Clare buys at the wholesale flower market on Monday and Thursday mornings, and from three growers within twenty miles on Tuesdays and Fridays. What comes in decides what we make.
Clare Linnell, florist
In the
buckets
Week 43 · 19–24 October
Sold by the stem over the counter, and what goes into our bouquets this week.
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Dahlias
£3.50 a stem
Under 5 days in a vase · until the first frost
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Chrysanthemums
£3 a stem
2–4 weeks in a vase · to November
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Rose hips
£4 a branch
Cut on the branch · to November
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Hydrangeas
£6 a stem
Fresh now, or left to dry · to early winter
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Cosmos
£2.50 a stem
Half-hardy · until the first frost
We send it in bud
The day it arrives
In bud
Most of what we send goes out in bud. It travels better, and it opens in their kitchen instead of ours.
The next day
Opening
The outer petals loosen first. A cool room makes it last longer; a warm one opens it faster.
A few days on
Open
Take a centimetre off the stems and change the water. Keep the vase away from the fruit bowl: ripe fruit gives off ethylene, which ages flowers.
Before it goes over
Fully open
A rose lasts six to fourteen days in a vase. This is the best of it.
Time-lapse: Alex Tr (Alex Traksel), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bouquets
to order
Four ways we make them, in up to four sizes. Delivered the same day if you order by 12 noon, Monday to Friday.
Choose a bouquet
Weddings
& events
We do two weddings a weekend, from the bridal bouquet to the last table. Most couples ask six to twelve months ahead.
The bouquet
Bridal bouquets from £140, bridesmaids' from £60 each, buttonholes from £12.
Ceremony pedestals from £180 each, aisle jars from £18, an arch or doorway from £900.
Table flowers from £40 a table, in low vases so people can see each other.
14 Sheep
Street
Closed now, opens at 9am today
| Monday to Friday | 9am–5.30pm |
|---|---|
| Saturday | 8.30am–4pm |
| Sunday | Closed |
14 Sheep Street, Sedgecombe. Ten minutes' walk from the station, two from the Market Place car park.
What peopleask us
Yes, if you order by 12 noon Monday to Friday, or 10am on Saturday, and the address is within 12 miles of the shop.
We leave the flowers with a neighbour or somewhere safe you name, and put a card through the door saying where. They travel in a bag of water, so a few hours is fine.
Yes, from what's in this week. Call us and we'll tell you what's in the buckets, or choose Florist's choice and leave it to us.
Yes: wreaths, sprays and coffin flowers, delivered to the funeral director. Call the shop and we'll talk it through.
When your order reaches us we check it, then ring you to take a card payment. Nothing is charged before that call.
Six to twelve months. We take two weddings a weekend, and June and September go first.
£800 for a wedding, which is roughly a bridal bouquet, two bridesmaids, six buttonholes and the ceremony flowers.
Yes, up to 30 miles away. Further than that, ask us and we'll tell you whether it works.
Some can be bought in from abroad. We'll tell you what that does to the price and how they will look on the day, then you decide.
No. We arrange in water, in chicken wire and on pin holders, and take the mechanics home with us afterwards.