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spring flowers & Foliage

Emily McClure & Matthew Sharkey

Portico of Ards Portaferry & Private Cottage in Kearney, ? 2016

'...I am not sure how to even begin to say the biggest thank you to you, Suzie, for all of the gorgeous flowers. The arrangements in the church and the tent were simply magnificent and our bouquets the perfect balance of cottage informality and wedding glamour - that pop of reddy pink in my bouquet was perfect! Really, everything was stunning and we have had so many lovely comments from people about how wonderful the flowers were...'

VESSELS & VASES

VESSELS & VASES

Florestina is owned and run by Suzie Scott from her Garden studio in Northern Ireland. Flora and fauna has been the subject of fascination and intrigue for Suzie from a very young age growing up in a unique Areboretum on the Ards Peninsula provided endless study and play as a child. Throughout

Meet Suzie and hear more about Florestina below.

WEDDINGS

WEDDINGS

ABOUT SUZIE & FLORESTINA

ABOUT SUZIE & FLORESTINA

The Arboretum

'In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends'

Okakura Kakuzo

MY GARDEN ON THE ARDS PENINSULA

My Garden on the Ards Peninsula

'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need' Marcus Tullius Cicero

Woburn Garden

I am very fortunate to be able to work from my home, Woburn Lodge, in a studio surrounded by a beautiful old woodland garden and arboretum. The garden once formed part of the estate of Woburn House, Millisle in County Down, Northern Ireland, which was once the seat of George Dunbar, a successful linen merchant and one time Mayor of Belfast.

Woburn & its history

Back in 1798 the property comprised two town lands, Ballyrolly and Drumfad, but Woburn House wasn’t built until after 1830. It was originally built as a modest summer house but was extensively enlarged and aggrandised in the 1860’s. There was a handsome cut stone working farm, designed by Lanyon & Lynn, with an extensive walled garden where fruit, vegetables and flowers were grown for the house, as well as for sale commercially.

The woodland garden & arboretum

Among the ‘large leaved’ Rhododendron species that grow at Woburn are R. sinogrande, R. magnificum, R. macabeanum and R. falconeri. Perhaps the most impressive though is R. protistum from Myanmar, one of Frank Kingdon Ward's introductions. It is a magnificent single stemmed tree now, covered with a mass of enormous magenta coloured flowers in February.

flowers & the cutting garden

I am now concentrating on developing an organic cutting garden. Although I am surrounded by trees and shrubs, there was no 'flower' garden as such here, since my grandmother's day. This is very much in its infancy, but you have to start somewhere and over the past few years we have been slowly reclaiming the old walled garden (or at least the outside wall and environs of the original walled garden).

arrange a visit

Garden open by appointment for photoshoots;

Wedding photographs, engagements and other special occasions

Visitors and Garden groups welcome to make an appointment to view the garden

The garden gallery

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