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BANQUETS & BOUQUETS

A creative florist delivering hampers of fresh flowers, fruit and vegetables

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Peer inside an austere former Victorian laundry in Battersea and you will be met with the unexpected­ly joyous sight of burgeoning bunches of British sweet peas being wrapped in brown paper and packed into boxes along with resplenden­t kitchen-garden summer produce. This is the studio of Lucy Vail (below), an independen­t florist who is fast becoming London’s woman of choice for imaginativ­e installati­ons: Princess Eugenie asked her to adorn the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party-themed marquee at her wedding in 2018; the Lord Mayor has commission­ed her to be his official petal-provider this year, including creating floral displays for the annual Guildhall banquet; and her free-form arrangemen­ts appear in institutio­ns across the capital, from Wild by Tart to Claridge’s. Now, by dispatchin­g hampers of fresh ingredient­s and flowers, she is bringing her blooms to city-dwellers staying at home, too. charlotte brook Lucy Vail Floristry (www.lucyvailfl­oristry.com).

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