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West Malling florists surprised locals with "lonely bouquets" left around the area

Nikki Meader from West Malling Flowers
Nikki Meader from West Malling Flowers

Surprise bouquets left purely to brighten someone’s day brought a ray of sunshine to people across Tonbridge and Malling.

A new concept for the floristry industry – “lonely bouquets” – captured the imagination of staff at West Malling Flowers in High Street, West Malling.

They produced 10 and left them at random spots around the area last Sunday for unsuspecting local people to stumble upon.
Beverley Newton’s boyfriend Shaun Manchett was on a morning bike ride around Bradbourne Fields in East Malling when he spotted one at the gate.
Thinking it was something someone had dropped or left in memory of someone, he carried on, but later, on reading the label, he took it home to Beverley.
“I said to him ‘“You haven’t been anywhere –- how can you have got those?’
““she said. “We looked at the note that came with them and thought “how lovely”.
“I thought it was absolutely lovely. It is such a lovely gesture and everyone is talking about it.”
West Malling resident Carmen Williams was walking home from bell-ringing when she spotted one on the bench next to the Hope statue. She was going to leave it, but a gust of wind blew it into the road, so she decided to take it to her mother-in-law Barbara Williams, who suffers from dementia and is in a care home.
“It was a pretty little bouquet,” she said. “I know she loves flowers and I thought she would like it.”
Shop owner Nikki Meader said: “Leaving the bouquets and driving off down the road was hard to do – they really did feel like lonely bouquets. It has been lovely to hear back from people who got them. It has been such a nice thing to do, and everyone in the industry has loved it.”

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