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Our directory helps people find gentler, more natural funeral flowers.
We want to make it easy to find plastic-free, compostable funeral flowers that won’t hang around in the environment long after we’ve departed, and to change the world of funeral flowers, one arrangement at a time.
Get found for the flowers that you love.
Join The Farewell Flowers Directory
£75.00 for a 12 month subscription. At just £6.25 per month, a listing with us is a better investment than your morning coffee!
Who can join The Farewell Flowers Directory?
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UK florists with a website
To join The Farewell Flowers Directory you must run a flower business based in the United Kingdom and have your own website. We want to make it easy for people to find sustainable funeral flowers and your website acts as the link from your directory listing.
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Shop florists, studio florists and flower farmers
We welcome all florists who can offer plastic-free and compostable tributes which include some UK grown material. We want to support you whatever point you may be at in your sustainablity journey - whether you’re just taking your first steps or already working 100% foam and plastic free.
When joining us, you promise to…
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Offer at least one compostable, plastic-free choice for funeral flowers
If you’re not sure about the difference between biodegradable and compostable, please see our FAQs. The FAQs also offer guidance on different types of floristry mechanics and how they comply with compostability.
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Include a statement on your website about where your flowers come from
We believe in transparency about flower sourcing and it’s helpful for customers to know your policy - whether you use imported flowers, a mix of British grown and imports or only the flowers you grow.
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Have a funeral flowers page which highlights compostable designs
This is an essential part of our campaign to make more sustainable funeral flowers more visible and easy to find. It helps customers to make an informed choice.
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Include some UK grown material in all compostable funeral tributes
You choose how much UK grown material you include and proportions may vary year round. To see more about sourcing UK grown materials see our FAQs. The more UK seasonal, outdoor grown flowers you include, the more environmentally friendly your funeral flowers will be.
Why join?
Get found, get known
The Farewell Flowers Directory is here to make a noise about compostable, plastic-free funeral flowers, and we’re always working hard behind the scenes to get this message out. The more florists we have on our directory, the louder our collective voice becomes.
We aim to get funeral flowers into the spotlight and to get them found by the media and public alike. We help you to get noticed locally for better, more planet-friendly choices.
Get a digital copy of The Farewell Flowers Directory badge to add to your website, and show that you’re part of this more sustainable change in funeral flowers.
By embracing the spirit of our directory, and by following its requirements, you’re showing you care about the planet and are taking steps to improve your sustainability. Our badge means nothing without this commitment to change.
Raise your profile for funeral flowers
By setting up a dedicated funeral flowers page on your website you’re already making it easier for people and internet search engines to find your funeral flowers.
Find practical tips on how to what to include on a funeral page on your website here.
As a member of The Farewell Flowers Directory, you can also raise your profile by sharing images of your flowers on our funeral flowers gallery pages, and send us blogposts about your work and the stories behind your flowers.
Appear on our florist profiles on our home page too!
Be part of our online community and join our members-only Facebook group
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![Suzy of Earth Blooms Somerset is an eco-friendly funeral florist. She's pictured here holding a woven basket with flowers which can be used as a fully compostable funeral flower arrangement.]()
"I wanted to join a group of like minded people who want to move floristry away from floral foam and everything that comes with using it. It's a positive space where you can ask questions and support one another in finding new ways of working."
Suzy, Earth Blooms, Somerset
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![Carole of Tuckshop Flowers holds summer flowers picked from her cutting patch. She makes sustainable, compostable and bespoke funeral flowers in Birmingham.]()
"It's great to be part of a directory that helps us, as florists, to educate the public about what funeral flowers can be."
Carole, Tuckshop Flowers, Birmingham
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![Lisa of Gate House Florals arranges eco-friendly funeral flowers on top of a wooden coffin, encircled with a canvas Bloemenband which holds stems of colourful flowers.]()
"For a long time I felt I was alone in despairing about the choices available for funeral flowers. I'm committed to offering gentler alternatives and I'm SO thrilled to have found my funeral flowers tribe!"
Lisa, Gate House Florals, Shropshire
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![Gill Hodgson of Fieldhouse Flowers smiles and holds a large bunch of tulips in a flower field. She's the founder of Flowers from the Farm and is a passionate advocate for compostable choices in funeral and farewell flowers.]()
“I want to be part of something that inspires people to think about truly personal funeral flowers."
Gill, Fieldhouse Flowers, Yorkshire
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![Meg Edmonds of Flowers by Meg at Roots is an organic farmer and wants to see a sustainable shift in funeral floristry. Here she's unloading freshly cut Chrysanthemums, freshly cut from her flower farm.]()
“It's so important to support a directory that makes it easier for people to find the flowers that they are looking for."
Meg, Flowers by Meg at Roots, Worcestershire
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![Melissa, florist at Bunch, holds a posy of spring flowers and explains why she loves eco friendly funeral flowers.]()
"I want to be part of this change, it’s very important to me and something I felt has needed to happen for a while. I'm hoping this directory will help make natural funeral flowers more accessible to people and eventually become the new ‘norm’ for the industry."
Melissa, Bunch, Oxfordshire
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![Katherine of Zinnia Floral Design holds a bouquet of locally grown tulips and bluebells.]()
"I want to be part of the difference. Working singly we can have a small effect but coming together and collectively engaging people in the story of sustainable farewell flowers has got to make a difference."
Katherine, Zinnia Floral Design, Shropshire
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![Anna Mead of Flowers By Anna Brian is a Worcestershire flower farmer and here she's making a plastic-free casket spray made from an array of seasonal blooms grown on her small-holding in Droitwich.]()
"Thanks for bringing funeral flowers into the spotlight - it's time for a change."
Anna, Flowers by Anna Brian, Worcestershire
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![Linda of the Spotted Dog Flower Company places garden gathered flowers into a Bloemenband to decorate this willow coffin for a sustainable funeral.]()
"This new directory will help raise the profile of sustainable funeral flowers and make it easier for potential customers to find me and others like me. As businesses with shared aims, we are stronger working together."
Linda, The Spotted Dog Flower Company, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
Be part of the change
The past decade has seen a demand for increasingly personalised funerals, and we want to make it easy for people to find a gentler alternative to traditional foam based floral tributes. We want to shift public perceptions of what ‘funeral flowers’ are or might be.
Be part of our movement to bring more sustainable funeral flowers into the spotlight and increase your reach to local customers.
