Founded in 2017 by Sherrill, a London Flower School–trained florist who left a career in optometry to pursue floral design full-time, Arde Botanica is a Singapore floral studio built around British floristry traditions: natural, garden-style arrangements assembled using hand-gathered, string-tied bouquet techniques rather than the tighter, wired construction more common in commercial floristry. The studio works from 60D Kallang Pudding Road by appointment, and its wedding calendar sits alongside private floristry workshops and a rotating flower bar of curated seasonal blooms.
British Floristry, Trained at the Source
Sherrill trained formally at London Flower School before deepening her craft through further courses across the UK, Bangkok, and Singapore, bringing home a specific technical foundation rather than a self-taught one: the loose, hand-tied English garden style, built stem by stem and bound with string so the bouquet keeps the natural movement of a just-gathered armful of flowers. That's a different starting point from the tightly wired, symmetrical bouquets common in much of Singapore's floral market, and it's the detail that tends to draw couples to Arde Botanica specifically — a bridal bouquet that photographs as if it were cut from a garden that morning, not assembled in a workshop.
Bridal Bouquets and the String-Tied Technique
The bridal bouquet is usually the first and most personal booking a couple makes with Arde Botanica, built around a consultation to work out palette, stem choice, and the shape a bride wants to carry down the aisle. Because the studio's signature technique is the string-tied, hand-gathered bouquet, the finished piece tends to read as looser and more textural than a classic round bouquet — better suited to brides who want their florals to feel organic and garden-grown rather than formal and architectural. As with any bespoke bouquet, sharing the gown early helps: a loose, garden-style bouquet sits differently against a structured mermaid silhouette than it does against flowing chiffon, and Arde Botanica's team can steer stem choice and bouquet size to complement the dress rather than compete with it in photos.
Ceremony and Reception Styling
Beyond the bouquet, Arde Botanica takes on ceremony flowers and reception centrepieces as a combined booking, so the aisle, the altar or solemnisation backdrop, and the guest tables all carry the same garden-style florals through the day rather than being styled as separate, disconnected elements. This is where the studio's British floristry training shows up most clearly at scale — an aisle lined with loose, seasonal stems, or centrepieces built with the same hand-gathered logic as the bridal bouquet, so a couple's ceremony and reception feel like one continuous floral concept instead of a bouquet from one vendor and generic table flowers from another.