A very simple, easy arrangement to make at home - take any bowl, jar or low dish, pop a kenzan and/or chicken wire in the bottom and you only need 20-odd stems to make a pretty centrepiece.

Flowering branches and Lenten rose in a vase with tenmoku glaze.

Sugary blossom, and candy pink berries are counterbalanced by the matt, muddy petals of the hellebores and the scratchy dried skeletons of St John’s wort.

A cheering bowl of flowers after a week of non-stop London rain; this citrine concoction of early spring flowers and pretty leaves is a celebration of slowly (but surely!) inching toward those warmer, lighter days.

Whiskery Forsythia branches with white flowering currant, Fritillaria persica and lots of scented Narcissi in an antique urn.

A group of pale pink and lilac hyacinth with Japanese maple in a glorious ginger brown leaves tipped with raspberry pink, mauve-grey hellebores, ferns and lemon daffodils.

Phacelia is a recent discovery for us and we are enchanted! Other commons names are blue tansy, heliotrope and scorpion weed.

A handful of pinky-purple Vinca ‘Jenny Pym’ with delicate spring flowers and foliage in a mixed complementary palette of mauve, pale yellow, peach, apricot and enlivening pops of acid green.