Growing with the Seasons: Meet Rebecca Eccles of Shropshire Flowers

In a quiet corner of Shropshire, something beautiful has been gently blooming. Rebecca Eccles, the creative heart behind Shropshire Flowers, grows and arranges flowers that celebrate the rhythm of the seasons, offering nature-led designs for weddings, events and gatherings, as well as wreaths and dried arrangements that carry the garden indoors all year round.

What began with a few sunflowers and wildflowers, picked from a patch of garden and taken to her Nan, has slowly grown into a life’s work rooted in care, creativity and connection with the land.

From Garden Beginnings

Rebecca’s journey started quite simply, with a blank patch of garden and a desire to grow. At first it was vegetables and a few cheerful sunflowers, alongside wildflowers she would gather and take to her grandmother. Over time, that small plot became a source of joy, inspiration and eventually a business.

Although she’s always been a maker in some form or another, Rebecca has been growing flowers for around five or six years. It wasn’t until the first lockdown that the idea of turning it into a business began to take root.

She hasn’t followed a formal path through courses or qualifications, and in many ways that’s the point. “It feels more like the kind of job where you just have to get your hands dirty and learn from your mistakes.”

A Life in Tune with Nature

Rebecca works from home, with her garden as both studio and source. What she loves most about working with flowers is how it keeps her in tune with the natural world, responding to what the seasons offer rather than trying to force a fixed outcome.

In the summer months she works with fresh, just-cut blooms for weddings and events, gathering what’s in flower and letting the arrangements shape themselves. Alongside this, she harvests and carefully air-dries as many flowers and bits of foliage as space allows. These dried stems are then stored for winter, ready to become wreaths and everlasting displays once the garden goes quiet.

“It’s more of a seasonal rhythm than a daily routine,” she says. “Right now we’ve just finished our last wedding of the season, so it’s all systems go getting everything ready for Christmas wreaths, which we sell online and post all over the country.”

Mystery Train Radio often plays in the background while she works, and tea is never far from hand. Her ideal creative day? One that includes learning something new. She has a real love of trying different crafts and skills. Chocolate is the preferred snack.

Weddings, Wildflowers and Working Sustainably

When asked about highlights, Rebecca doesn’t hesitate. “Weddings are what I love most of all!” It’s easy to imagine the joy she brings to each celebration, creating natural floral pieces that reflect both the couple and the landscape.

Sustainability is central to everything she does. Together with her husband Simon, all the dried flowers currently on display at the gallery were grown in their garden during summer 2025 and air dried with care.

They work in harmony with nature, not just the flowers, but the creatures and systems that support them. No chemicals are used, and the garden is nourished with their own homemade compost.

They also take great care with presentation. No single-use plastics are used in their products, and the arrangements currently shown in the gallery are displayed in handcrafted vessels by ceramicist Pip from Stafford Clay Studios. It’s a collaboration that brings together two thoughtful crafts in one beautiful expression.

Rebecca’s arrangements speak quietly but powerfully. Grown with care, gathered by hand and shaped by the changing seasons, each piece carries a sense of place and purpose. There’s a real beauty in the way she lets nature lead the way, honouring not only the flowers themselves but the rhythms that brought them into being.

We’re proud to be showing a selection of Rebecca’s dried flower arrangements here at The Artists Gallery. Grown in her Shropshire garden and carefully air-dried over the summer, they’re a celebration of sustainable craft, seasonal living and thoughtful design.

You can see her work in person until the 14th of December at The Artists Gallery, Bromfield, Ludlow.

To explore more online, follow Rebecca on Instagram:

🌿 @shropshireflowers