Shane Connolly: How to bring intimate, floral charm to large, extravagant spaces - Episode 254

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Sarah Raven

Cook, Arranging, Home, Flower Arranging, Grow, Arrangements, Kitchen, Vegetables, Flowers, Gardener, Veg Garden, Lifestyle, Gardening, Leisure, Home & Garden, Food, Cooking, Arts, Eating, Eat, Growing, Planting, Produce, Garden, Sarah Raven

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Shane Connolly is a master of many arts, and one that he exhibits throughout the year is how to use sustainable floristry to create a sense of charm often reserved for the tiniest of tables. That’s why he’s in such high demand - we talk through his exciting, varied year of arranging in this week’s podcast, with a look at the festive season, and a few tips to serve your own arranging in the festive season, taking inspiration from Shane’s wondrous wedding displays. In this episode, discover: Ho...

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0:06.3	beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,
0:12.9	lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden
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0:29.1	today to discover even more.
0:54.4	Welcome to Gr Cookie to Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today I am joined by my lovely friend and sort of colleague Shane Connolly, who has been on the podcast maybe two, three, perhaps even four times.
0:55.0	Gosh, gosh.
0:55.8	I know.
0:57.7	I'm repeating like a bad dinner.
1:01.0	Well, you're a wonderful person to talk to, Shane.
1:03.5	And sorry, hello, Shane.
1:04.6	I haven't even said that yet. Hello, Sarah.
1:05.4	Hello.
1:06.6	It's lovely to have you back.
1:08.6	It's lovely to be by.
1:09.9	I wanted to get Shane on in this one that's coming out at Christmas because he does so many fantastic things at Christmas, which we're going to end with the episode talking about.
1:22.7	But what we thought, Shane and I, is we would chat about all the work he's done in 2025,
1:30.9	so through the whole year in a kind of really nice synopsis.
1:33.7	But I guess also to just give an overview of what Shane does, which is, he's a very famous florist.
1:41.2	I'll allow him to talk about that in a discreet way because he has to
1:46.7	be discreet and you'll explain perhaps a little bit why but he is a genius with a real eye for
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