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Saving the planet one Macrame Knot at a time...

Macrame artist Katie Mitchell is an independent designer based in south London whose colourful plant hangers have been a big hit at Just So Flowers ever since we opened our shop at 71 Beckenham Road. Now Katie has added some fabulous shoulder bags to her collection that are not only highly weara

Taking centre stage

It's all happening!

This is my first blog in a while, there's been so much going on, even in Lockdown, and there's so much more to come. Funny how life tends to be all or nothing isn't it? After a whole year of Lockdown soon we'll be able to meet up with our friends, go to the pub, open our shops ...

Houseplants and the wellness factor

The trend for houseplants shows no sign of abating and all the reports that I've read recently show increased growth in sales.

Keeping bees: "a fascinating hobby"

For the past few years we humans have been celebrating World Bee Day, an event that reminds us that we depend on bees for our very survival and perhaps this year more than most we should be grateful for these little protectors of our planet.

Easycare houseplants

No one looking to buy a houseplant ever says "do you have something that's really hard to look after". Nope, the question is always something along the lines of "do you have something that's really EASY to look after," quickly followed by the statement: "I usually kill plants".

2020 - THE YEAR OF BLUE

Colour experts Pantone have named “classic blue” the colour for 2020 which made me think about all of the beautiful blue flowers nature has given us.

The Power of Green

I recently said in a post that the colour green is known to be calming which is one of reasons that we're so attracted to houseplants, green spaces, woodlands and so on. This prompted a friend of mine to do some more research about the power of green.