About Us
Wild Flowers was born over 17 years ago after owner, Kerry had completed her Degree in Floral Design at Myerscough College. After switching careers from the Banking sector after the birth of her son, Sam, Kerry needed a creative outlet in her life and started doing Flower arranging at night school. Completely fell in love with it, walked into work, gave up her Executive role and never looked back. It was a huge weight off her shoulders to not be confined to the hamster wheel of targets and profits. She embarked on a national certificate in Floristry at The Welsh College of Horticulture and also completed an advanced certificate qualification too. She relocated back to her home town of Wigan, when her son started school she carried on her studies in floristry by attending Myerscough College, part of Lancaster University where she took a 3 year degree course in floral design. In her final year she bought Wild Flowers.
Our style has evolved over time organically into it’s natural, wild country style with a twist of the unusual. Kerry became a member of the esteemed International Florist association “Chapel Designers” in 2017 and 2018. She continues to grow her knowledge on that higher level. Attending workshops and events with other high profile Florists. We have been developing our workshop program after annually our Christmas Wreath classes sold out over and over again. Every year we now teach over 100 Students how to create their own gorgeous wreath in the run up to Christmas. We have designed and taught many other classes throughout the year also. In December 2020 we opened our custom built workshop space above the flower shop for our classes.
Our ethos remains the same, to provide good quality flowers for gifts, events and life celebrations that you can’t buy elsewhere and to love what we do. It’s not work, it’s just life.
From September 2025, the High Street shop closed it’s retail space downstairs, reflecting the way people now shop and buy products. Recognising that less people “walk in” and make spontaneous purchases and building on the strengths of the website ordering system eventually meant that the overheads to have a “shop” open long hours, requiring skilled staff became an ineffective way of working. We now operate via our website for deliveries or book a collection from our pick-up point, inside Highcross Hardware, on the same High Street in Standish, 300 yards from the original shop.