2012 bursts into flower
Who could have guessed that usually austere January would hold one of the busiest weeks we have experienced in the last year? Not us! But in December 2011 this is exactly what we realised was in store.
The week beginning the 9th January was packed with events of all different types, in venues ranging from The Natural History Museum to London Zoo, to Old Billingsgate.
We were truly in busy mode. The event to be held in what used to be London’s largest fishmarket, Old Billingsgate, was a corporate event with 150 dining tables alone, not including the bars or the drinks tables… Every surface in our studio was being used to store an amaryllis arrangement of some kind!
We did a few sums (as we obviously weren’t busy enough) and came up with the following mind boggling totals.
In one weekend we arranged 3100 white amaryllis, 2000 stems of dendrobium orchids and 3000 red roses. We placed table centrepieces onto 400 tables and lit 1300 candles.
Let’s hope that this is a good omen for 2012 – busy, lively and full of flowers!