Hello and welcome to the Get Your Globe About podcast. I'm joined today by the lovely Willow Crossley,

celebrated florist and author to talk about her connection with nature and how it helps with her mental health.

We spoke all about how we can connect to nature even when we're living in a city, how she was

passing on her love of nature to her children and the simple things we can do every day to

live a more connected and happier life. I hope you love listening to this episode. Let's bring on

the wonderful Willow. Welcome Willow to the podcast. Thank you so much for having me. I am very excited to talk about your

career in floristry. How did that happen? Was it always your passion? How do you get into something

like that? It's been quite a late career path for me. I started writing. I grew up in the country in Wales

and I wrote a couple of books and when I was writing my second book, which was called The Art of Living

with Nature, one of my chapters was pure florestery and at the time I was doing a lot of interiors,

writing, personal shopping, styling and a little bit of floristry.

And I was spreading myself far too thin. I just, I couldn't cope. It was just too much.

Because I loved that chapter that I was doing when I was working on it. I kind of felt I had my

eureka moment and I was going to quit everything else and focus on the floristry.

And it was really that simple. During that time when I

made that decision, one of my best friends, she got engaged and said, will you do my wedding? So with my

mother and I, we did her wedding, that was my first one. And I loved it and I can have a look back since.

Oh, that's so amazing. I feel like weddings are that time where you can go all out, and that's quite a big thing to do for your first thing. Terrify. I feel like she put a lot of trust in you. I love it. I know, she was so relaxed. She's like to do what you want. But the hardest thing with the floristry actually is bits before it's for working out the quantities and things and that I still find very challenging when I

get to the point of actually doing the event and playing with the flowers that's the dream but the bit

before I still find quite tough how do you keep flowers alive are there any tricks what can we do to

kind of bring them back to life bring them back to life or just keep them growing keep the going

both okay um clean water okay essential so how often should we change it if you can so to life or just keep them growing. A bit of both. Okay. Clean water.

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