Tralee florist set for top Chelsea show

May 1995

A YOUNG Tralee florist has been picked to form part of an all-Irish team by Interflora to work at the Chelsea Flower Show in London at the end of the month.

Eliza Ennis, aged 25, of Forget-Me-Nots Florist on Rock Street will form part of the team that will design and create Interflora’s major stand at the prestigious event.

This is the first time an allIrish team has been chosen to design and create the stand and Eliza told The Kerryman that she was ‘ chuffed’ to be chosen.

She has been chosen to go to Chelsea as the Junior Florist.

“I am very proud to have been asked,” she said.

“Mary O’Gara, a florist in Dublin, was asked to get a team to design the stand and she chose me. I was absolutely stunned and flummoxed when she asked me. It is a great honour to be asked,” she said.

Eliza studied for three years at the Welsh College of Horticulture and achieved her BTEC National Diploma in Floristry. Her next goal is to achieve the NDSF — the National Diploma of the Society of Floristry—in 1996.

Eliza is already acquainted with high profile floristry work as her parents. Tony and Mary Ennis, have for many years been associated with and provided floristry for the International Rose of Tralee Festival.

This will not be Eliza’s first trip to the famous Chelsea Flower Show. “I have been to Chelsea before but never in this capacity. I am really looking forward to it,” she said.

The ‘Interflora Stand’ which Eliza will help to design, will be in the famous Grand Marquee and the flowers chosen for it will reflect the huge range readily available to professional florists in the Interflora network.