In a bid to minimize ‘waste’, Pinstripes & Peonies, have launched ‘The Second Hand Flower Shop’, selling bouquets made entirely of repurposed flowers. 

Despite already donating 80% of the flowers from their weddings and events to Floral Angels, the team at P&P were still seeing beautiful flowers put into the compost heap - nothing wrong with them, just nowhere else to go. 

The Second Hand Flower Shop takes this final bit of waste and repurposes it into something positive. All money raised from the sale of ‘second hand’ bouquets will be put into school garden projects to create green spaces in urban areas. 

Since 2013, Pinstripes & Peonies have been sponsoring local primary school, Herbert Morrison, to create an enviable Nature Garden for students to enjoy. Previously unkept with no resources for maintenance, the space is now thriving with plants and flowers once used at events. The scheme has been so successful that P&P hope to roll it out to more schools in the next year. 

Ruari McCulloch - Founder of Pinstripes & Peonies commented: 

“When looking at where P&P could improve and have direct impact in the local area, we saw that school green spaces were going unloved, unfunded and yet are completely essential. We hope that funds raised by the SHFS will help elevate outdoor spaces, improve horticultural learning and provide a little patch of green where lives are sometimes surrounded by grey.’’

Pinstripes & Peonies have partnered with a local coffee shop in Nine Elms to house the flower. Find out more on their Instagram account @theSHFS