Advice & Articles
Why are handmade vases expensive?
Just like anything that’s properly crafted by hand, the creation of handmade vases require time, skill and attention to detail. Not a good enough answer? Fair enough. We’ll take you through everything that goes into making a handmade vase using a throwing wheel, compared with mass production. What’s involved in…
Dried Wedding Flowers (UK)
Why Dried Wedding Flowers? Dried flowers are perfect for weddings. If you need a reason to choose dried flowers over fresh, look no further: Dried flowers for weddings are a sustainable way to decorate your wedding venue, Church or reception, because you can keep, re-use, sell or even give…
How to arrange dried flowers in a vase
Arranging dried flowers into a beautiful bouquet doesn’t require a degree in floristry - literally anyone can do a great job with a little trial and error. That means you! You might not have ever arranged flowers and only ever cut the bottoms off of fresh flowers and plonked them…
How to Choose a Wedding Bouquet with Meaning
If you’re getting married, it’s never too early to start planning your wedding flowers. Not just your wedding bouquet, but your bridesmaid flowers, flowers for favours, table flowers, corsages - the lot. And if you want them to stand the test of time, you probably have ‘dried wedding flowers’ underlined,…
Which colour bunny tails are you?
Before you choose which you like best, let us tell you a bit about the personality traits each colour of bunny tails reflects. Then, find your Meadow Made match with our coloured bunny tails and vase combo for £14.99. Purple bunny tails COULD YOU BE ANY MORE CHARISMATIC? If you’re…
22 things we have to say about pampas grass
Pampas is more than a beautiful dried grass. So much more that we’ve written 22 affirmations of how fantastic it is. We challenge you to read through them all and not want to buy pampas for yourself and everyone you love. 1. Kiss my pampas For when there are kids…
Gifting dried flowers vs fresh flowers
Firstly, when it comes to dried flowers we’re definitely biased. But you should hear us out - we’ve got some great reasons why sending dried flowers as gifts is way better than sending fresh ones. Fact: dried flowers last longer than fresh flowers At Meadow Made, we’ve all got bunches…
What to do when your dried grasses arrive
Dried grasses are famously long-lasting with low maintenance. You don’t really have to do anything with them once they arrive. However, if you want to keep them looking their absolute best, here are our top tips for tip top care and maintenance. Welcome them! Balloons, banners and even a cake…
20 home gift ideas for the woman with everything
How hard is it to buy something for the woman who already has everything they could want? Or for your mum, when she says "It's okay, Pet - you don't need to get me anything"? This is of course a rhetorical question - we know finding something new and interesting…
17 vegan Christmas presents under £30 (from UK companies)
This year (2020) the safest bet for Christmas presents is buying them online, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still support local companies and buy your friends and family something a bit different. From tasty treats and ways to pamper, to long lasting items for your home, we want to…
