Alex Nutting

Well, I love arranging flowers. That’s probably not really… there’s no spoiler to that. I still absolutely love the feeling of cutting flowers from the garden, arranging them every single time. It’s different every time, you’re working with different ingredients and you just, you know, there’s an amazing creative freedom to it. And I still love that. I love that more than anything. So having just time with the flowers is great. But obviously I would say there’s so many different aspects of it that I enjoy. I do a lot of the client communication side and the sales, which I never thought I would enjoy, but I actually do. I love writing, photography. There’s lots of that. You know, that is an aspect of my job that I have to do quite a lot. My sister does the photography mainly, but I do our Instagram account, and we film online classes now for our flower school. So that’s an amazing discovery that we have during COVID, actually, because obviously the pandemic just put an end to us running our flower school in-person. And generally, our students come from all over the world, so they couldn’t come, and we couldn’t teach them. And so, we decided to pivot and do online courses, which has been amazing because basically we’re filming our flowers. We’re doing it to create films rather than like actually physically in person, and it’s such a different… It’s become a really big part of our business and it’s something that we’re constantly kind of expanding on and building on every year. And that’s an amazing thing because I get to do the writing for the courses, and my sister does all the photography and the filming and, like, editing, learning how to edit films and make them beautifully is like a whole other thing. And that’s a real passion now that we absolutely love doing that. There’s just so many different… Obviously the gardening is another huge part of it. That’s much more kind of physical and, you know, just literally hands in the earth. And that’s incredible. I mean, to have the mixture of all of those different things as a job, it’s just like the best job in the world because you can’t get bored.