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Whistler Bouquet Preservation


My Grandma Jean loved to pick, press and preserve wildflowers, often displaying her floral finds in small gold and silver frames dotted around her bungalow. Nan was the only person I'd ever known who pressed flowers and it was very endearing. It reminded me of our many childhood nature walks with her, discovering forest floors blanketed by bluebells and snowdrops in the beautiful countryside of Surrey, England, where I grew up.
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Sadly, my sweet Grandma passed away on New Years Day 2023, aged 99. I was fortunate to be able to travel back to the UK to say goodbye. Not wanting her vast array of sentimental funeral flowers to simply go to waste, I arranged many of the flowers into bouquets to display around my parent's house for the week but remember thinking how sad it would be to eventually throw away such significant flowers, once the bouquets had died. It was then that I decided I would like to take some of her flowers home with me to Whistler, BC and create a cherished keepsake in her memory.
I borrowed some old books from my parents and tried my hand at pressing flowers for the very first time, packing them carefully in my suitcase to bring back to Canada with me. The pressing was a success and once the flowers were dried, I created my very first floating floral frame with the pressed flowers, in honour of my Grandma. I completely fell in love with the flower pressing process.
Grandma would have celebrated her 100th birthday in June 2023 and continuing her flower pressing legacy by launching Flora & Frame exactly a century after she was born is hugely honouring and humbling. I love the feeling of keeping her memory alive in my day-to-day work and hope she would be proud of my flower-filled endeavours.
Living in Whistler and already working as a freelance wedding make-up and hair artist, Flora & Frame has become the perfect sister business to run alongside my wedding beauty business. With the stunning mountains of Whistler, Squamish and Pemberton being one of Canada’s most popular wedding and event destinations, I'm so excited to offer bouquet preservation and framing for bloom-loving brides, as well as anyone wishing to preserve special occasion and commemorative flowers, to cherish for a lifetime.
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Below is a photo of my Grandma from 2010 and the very first flower frame I made, with her funeral flowers.
HELLO! MY NAME IS HELEN AND THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW FLORA & FRAME BOUQUET PRESERVATION WAS FOUNDED IN 2023...
In loving memory of my Grandma
Jean Rosemary Clark
1923 - 2023


