Welcome to Surrey Flower School

We are a friendly flower school using locally grown flowers and foliage providing workshops in a relaxed, informal way in a beautiful garden setting

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About me

I'm Alison Morley. I've been designing with flowers for over 20 years and have had the privilege of providing many friends and relatives with their party and wedding flowers.

I’m largely self taught but have studied at some of London's finest flower schools including Jane Packer, where I completed the Career course and had the great privilege of being taught by Jane herself.

At McQueens I spent a fabulous week learning about large scale floristry and, courtesy of a big birthday gift from my lovely husband Steve, I spent a wonderful week in Paris studying with the fabulous Catherine Muller.

I also passed with distinction the Royal Horticultural Society’s course in Horticulture.

I'm currently working at a wonderful florist in Odiham, and at West Green garden in Hampshire.

From these and many other experiences, I have developed my own relaxed style of working with flowers and increasingly growing from seed and propagating my own plants.

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I teach from my beautiful one acre garden in an idyllic setting on the river Thames next to Penton Hook lock. My aim is to use as many UK grown flowers, foliage and herbs as I can, many from local flower farms and from my own garden.

My philosophy is to work with nature and let the flowers and foliage speak for themselves.

More than anything though I aim to make your time at the school enjoyable and relaxing.

Ample time is given to all courses to allow for coffee, a chat, a browse through my large library of flower arranging books, a few practical demonstrations and a wander around the garden and shop.

You’ll leave with a lovely arrangement to admire and a smile on your face – hopefully inspired to seek out more and different flowers and to come back for one of our ever expanding range of courses.

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I can confirm wholeheartedly that Ali is a master of flowers and put together the most beautiful wedding bouquet for me.

PS: I’d love to have a go!

Hebe, October 2026

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Wreath Making Course

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Ali's Introduction to Flower Arranging Course

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