Neill's Blog
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Inspirations for Easter in Belgravia
Neill is often asked where he finds the inspiration for his floral designs. With Easter just around the corner, Neill shares his love of Belgravia, home of the Neill Strain Floral Couture boutique, and explains how the area's majestic architecture and centenary gardens are the primary source of inspiration for this year's Easter Collection.
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Introducing Christmas and Thanksgiving 2019 at Neill Strain Floral Couture
November is not too early to be thinking about Christmas. Neill’s Belgravia boutique is already dressed for the occasion. As he introduces us to his designs and inspirations for Christmas and Thanksgiving 2019, the Irish-born floral designer explains the many different home styling services he and his talented team of floral designers are offering to help you plan and achieve your dream decor for this holiday season.
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Gourds, Pumpkins and Autumn Treasures
With Halloween and Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, it is the time of year when we celebrate the harvest with fabulous designs created with Gourds, Pumpkins and other fruits and flowers of the season. In this blog post Neill shares his new autumn installation at the Belgravia boutique along with exciting designs that can be ordered online, as well as bespoke arrangements from the Belgravia boutique and the concession at Harrods.
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Autumn Flowers for an Indian Summer
Despite storms and unusually warm temperatures, Autumn flowers have arrived in perfect condition at Neill’s Belgravia boutique and the concession at Harrods. Neill tells us how his growers deal with difficult weather conditions and he shares the beauty of the season’s blooms detailed in the stunning designs he has created for his online Autumn Collection 2019.
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For the Love of Luxury Roses
Neill has been sourcing some of the most beautiful and rarest Roses for his clients for many years now. Learn about the new Rose varieties his specialty growers are introducing this summer, available in very limited quantities at the Belgravia boutique as well as the concession at Harrods, and discover some stunning, new bouquets created with Roses from Ecuador now available to order online from Neill Strain Floral Couture.
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Extraordinary Flowers for Extraordinary Events
Neill describes how he sources the most beautiful flowers to create stunning floral designs for his luxury events. With a network of specialised growers in Holland, he shares with us his winning formula for transforming his events into places of unforgettable floral artistry.
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Belgravia In Bloom at No. 11
With the theme for this year’s Belgravia In Bloom displays being “The Language Of Flowers,” Neill Strain found inspiration for his Belgravia boutique design from his new No. 11 Fragranced Candle and the hidden meaning of the flowers which make up its exquisite fragrance. Neill shares with us his award-winning display, the flowers and their language.
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Fabulous Flowers for Summer 2019
Neill tells us about his new selection of fabulous summer flowers sourced direct from his growers and introduces us to his floral designs for the Summer Online Collection. Bespoke bouquets and exquisite arrangements that can be ordered online or at our Belgravia boutique and delivered throughout London the same day.
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Launching Neill Strain Floral Couture Fragranced Candles
Neill has put together a combination of his dream scents based on his floral couture experience and life-long passion for flowers and fragrances and created a new line of fragranced candles. Learn all about his six extraordinary candles comprising Belgravia, No.11, Santal d’Orient, Rose & Oud, Cassis Noir and Verdure.
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Celebrate Women This Month Of March
March is a month in celebration of women with International Women’s Day on Friday March 8th and Mother’s Day on Sunday March 31st. For these special occasions we’ve created some fabulously feminine designs to meet all the tastes and styles of the dynamic 21st century woman, as well as for Persian New Year and Arab Mother’s Day on the first day of spring, March 21st. Neill tells us about the inspiration and sourcing for his exquisite designs.
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Flowers for Valentine's Day 2019
Valentine’s Day is one of the busiest days of the year for a florist and therefore sourcing the very best flowers is more challenging than ever. In this blogpost Neill presents his Valentine’s Collection for 2019 and explains how he obtains the most spectacular and freshest luxury red Roses on the market.
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