Have you ever wondered why you shouldn't bring snowdrops into your home? Or what happens when you hear bluebells rings? This podcast is for you. Regular episodes from florists, Sarah Rushbrooke and Keeley Rees. Listen for floral lore and unusual flower facts. <br/><br/><a href="https://flowersandfolklore.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">flowersandfolklore.substack.com</a>
Flowers & Folklore
Claim This Podcastby Sarah Rushbrooke & Keeley Rees
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Have you ever wondered why you shouldn't bring snowdrops into your home? Or what happens when you hear bluebells rings? This podcast is for you. Regular episodes from florists, Sarah Rushbrooke and Keeley Rees. Listen for floral lore and unusual flower facts. <br/><br/><a href="https://flowersandfolklore.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">flowersandfolklore.substack.com</a>
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February 28, 2026
Violet
<p>Hello! Keeley takes us down lots of fragrant and delicious rabbit holes all about the violet. This small but mighty flower has deep roots in the floristry world, as well as being the OG red rose (it’ll make sense once you listen!) And yes, this gave Keeley another opportunity to complain about roses.</p><p>We take a trip down memory lane with films and books, take a quick stop at the Tate to admire some art and look up recipes for violet pudding.</p><p><p><strong>Books</strong></p></p><p>* The Hedgerow Apothecary by Christine Iverson</p><p>* Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants, and Trees by Ernst and Johanna Lehner</p><p>* Floriography by Jessica Roux</p><p>* Discovering the Folklore of Plants by Margaret Baker</p><p>* Flowers and Their Meanings by Karen Azoulay</p><p><p><strong>Artwork</strong></p></p><p>* Lady with a Bowl of Violets by Lila Cabot Perry (1910) at the National Museum of Women in the Arts</p><p>* A Bouquet of Violets by Édouard Manet (1872)</p><p>* Ophelia by John Everett Millais (1851-52) at the Tate</p><p>Head to our Instagram for visuals.</p><p><p><strong>Also mentioned</strong></p></p><p>* Betty May <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/bettymaewrote">@bettymaywrote</a> - features the character Violet the mouse in the Wildwood series</p><p>* The article by Felicity Hall from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/womens-history/the-flower-girls-of-london/">historyworkshop.org.uk</a> about flower girls</p><p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/flowersandfolklorepodcast/"><strong>Flowers & Folklore on Instagram</strong></a></p><p><strong>We’d love to hear from you! </strong></p><p>Have your own floral stories or lore about violets? We’re accepting reader submissions, so if you have a flower story, (about any flower) please share it with us! Comment below or email us at flowersandfolklorepodcast@gmail.com</p><p>Enjoy the episode!</p><p><strong>Sarah & Keeley</strong></p><p>Find Sarah online: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/rookbotanics/">Instagram</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://sarahrushbrooke.substack.com/">Substack</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/rookbotanics/">Pinterest</a></p><p>Find Keeley online: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/thegreeneditstudio/">Instagram</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://keeleyrees.substack.com/">Substack</a></p><p>More info and transcript on <a target="_blank" href="https://flowersandfolklore.substack.com/">Flowers & Folklore</a> you must access this via your desktop and not your phone.</p><p>P.S. <a target="_blank" href="https://flowersandfolklorepodcast.com/contact">Leave us a voice note!</a> </p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Flowers & Folklore at <a href="https://flowersandfolklore.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">flowersandfolklore.substack.com/subscribe</a>
January 28, 2026
Garden gossip 3
<p>In this <strong>Garden Gossip</strong> episode of Flowers & Folklore, Sarah and Keeley spill all the recent flower goss. From seasonal quiet spells to the ideas and projects that have been quietly taking up all their daydreams.</p><p>From fairy lights and backyard vows to magnolias, amaranthus, unexpected thistle, and trusting your gut when plans unravel, this episode wanders through wedding flowers, winter studios, meaningful funeral work, and the power flowers hold in moments of joy and grief. Along the way, there’s talk of cake side-quests, Tolkien, hellebores on graves, creative play without pressure, and why fleeting beauty might be the whole point.</p><p>Enjoy! </p><p><p><strong>Floristry & Flowers</strong></p></p><p><strong>Keeley:</strong></p><p>Keeley did her first ever wedding as a florist! Yes siree Bob, that’s the secret project she mentioned in our previous Garden Gossip episode. It just also happens that this wedding was her own. Perhaps, one could argue, that it was a bit mad to attempt to do the flowers on her own wedding day (& in 38 degree heat!) but the madness made way <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUCzHS0iW-N/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">for something </a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUCzHS0iW-N/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">magical</a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUCzHS0iW-N/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">. </a></p><p></p><p><strong>Sarah: </strong></p><p>Sarah recently put together a bold, joyful funeral arrangement for someone who loved colour. She went for fiery Icelandic poppies, wiggly ranunculus, pink spray roses, winter foliage, skimmia, and little pops of ilex berries. It was a riot of life in the middle of winter, and Sarah reflects on how flowers like these can offer a quiet bit of comfort, helping people pause, breathe, and remember the personality and passions of the person they’re celebrating. Even in sorrow, there’s a little magic in the way flowers can hold space for love.</p><p><p><strong>Inspirations</strong></p></p><p></p><p><strong>Keeley:</strong></p><p>* Sarah mentioned Keeley’s <a target="_blank" href="https://keeleyrees.substack.com/p/how-to-bake-and-decorate-a-cake">Cake decorating post </a></p><p>* This stunning tin snowdrop made by <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/30356330-in-progress-from-meg-fatharly">In Progress from Meg Fatharly</a>. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DTp_tM2jaF-/?img_index=1">Meg’s instagram</a> is also here. </p><p></p><p><strong>Sarah:</strong></p><p>* Secret Garden interactive book</p><p>* Sarah’s visit to Tolkien’s grave, with a little hellebore. </p><p>* Cyclamen by Karim Abu Shakra from the Palestine Museum</p><p></p><p><p><strong>Coming up…</strong></p></p><p>* Sarah’s DIY wedding course which will be out in February</p><p>* Mother’s Day workshops and vouchers</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://keeleyrees.substack.com/">Keeley’s substack </a></p><p></p><p>We’re nerdy & nosey</p><p>What flower-related things have you been inspired by recently? We’d love to hear your stories and connections about flowers. Our listenership is really spread across the world, so if you have some local folklore about a specific flower please write in and let us know.</p><p>Email us at <a target="_blank" href="mailto:flowersandfolklorepodcast@gmail.com">flowersandfolklorepodcast@gmail.com</a> or message us on instagram. </p><p></p><p><p><strong>Enjoy the episode!</strong></p><p><strong>Keeley & Sarah</strong></p><p><strong>Find Sarah online: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/rookbotanics/"><strong>Instagram</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://sarahrushbrooke.substack.com/"><strong>Substack</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/rookbotanics/"><strong>Pinterest</strong></a></p><p><strong>Find Keeley online: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/thegreeneditstudio/"><strong>Instagram</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://keeleyrees.substack.com/"><strong>Substack</strong></a></p><p><strong>More info and transcript on </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://flowersandfolklore.substack.com/"><strong>Flowers & Folklore</strong></a><strong> you must access this via your desktop and not your phone.</strong></p><p></p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Flowers & Folklore at <a href="https://flowersandfolklore.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">flowersandfolklore.substack.com/subscribe</a>
January 24, 2026
Camellia
<p>Hello, hello! So lovely to be back and be sharing our first episode of 2026 in which Sarah takes us into the curious world of the Camellia. </p><p>Don’t be fooled by its beauty and abundance, this flower has a layered and more powerful past than you might expect. </p><p>In this episode we wander about gently through history, folklore, politics and fashion houses. Plus, it wouldn’t be an episode about a pretty flower with at least one reference to a noble death, right? In amongst that creepy revelation we talk about memory keeping, notebooks, perfumes that evoke images of ‘theatre and posh old ladies’ and the lengths humans go to, just to have flowers in their lives, no matter the era.</p><p>Grab a cup of tea, settle in, and maybe don’t pluck flowers from mysterious trees...</p><p><p><strong>Books</strong></p></p><p>* The Language of Flowers by Odessa Begay</p><p>* <strong> </strong>A Year in Flowers by Erin Benzakein</p><p>* Floriography by Jessica Roux</p><p>* The Complete Language of Flowers by S. Theresa Dietz</p><p>* The Language of Flowers by Margaret Pickston</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://yokai.com/furutsubakinorei/?srsltid=AfmBOorAQhFXv4XsB65DyKLLcxj4Hy_Zd_QDgiijvfdG4wkVJo-yllNP">Two Japanese tales featured here</a>. This is an illustrated database of Japanese folklore and worth noting they also have Patreon. The accompanying image below is by Matthew Meyer:</p><p><p><strong>Impact on Women’s Sufforage in New Zealand</strong></p></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/meri-mangakahia">Speech: “So Women Can Get the Vote” by Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia.</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26780380.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3Ac3601dbc06868dc5829f3b93afe5ccf2&ab_segments=&initiator=&acceptTC=1">Journal: The camellia – suffragist symbol of womanly excellence. </a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ncwnz.org.nz/battle_of_camellias">Battle of the Camellias</a>.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.women.govt.nz/news/symbol-suffrage-130">A symbol for Suffrage 130 by Vanessa Smith.</a></p><p><p><strong>Artworks & Literature</strong></p></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel">La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas </a></p><p>Camellia artworks by British painter and botanical artist Clara Pope<strong> </strong>(c.1767 – 24 December 1838).</p><p>Camellia and Bird by Japanese <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukiyo-e">ukiyo-e</a> artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858).</p><p><p><strong>Also mentioned</strong></p></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.niwaki.com/camellia-oil/?srsltid=AfmBOooRwGyZ9pjbp3LSEfnRzbMSC6Unq80QJtwtUsRI4cZWDIzEIWrU#P00030">Camelia Oil by Niwaki</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.chanel.com/us/skincare/beyond-the-jar/camellia-alba-plena/">Camellias in The House of Chanel</a></p><p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/flowersandfolklorepodcast/"><strong>Flowers & Folklore on Instagram</strong></a></p><p><strong>We’d love to hear from you! </strong></p><p>Have your own floral stories or lore about Camellia? We’re accepting reader submissions, so if you have a flower story, (about any flower) please share it with us! Comment below or email us at flowersandfolklorepodcast@gmail.com</p><p>Enjoy the episode!</p><p>Sarah & Keeley</p><p>Find Sarah online: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/rookbotanics/">Instagram</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://sarahrushbrooke.substack.com/">Substack</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/rookbotanics/">Pinterest</a></p><p>Find Keeley online: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/thegreeneditstudio/">Instagram</a> | <a target="_blank" href="https://keeleyrees.substack.com/">Substack</a></p><p>More info and transcript on <a target="_blank" href="https://flowersandfolklore.substack.com/">Flowers & Folklore</a> you must access this via your desktop and not your phone.</p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Flowers & Folklore at <a href="https://flowersandfolklore.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">flowersandfolklore.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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