The Story of Flower Hamlet
My name is Subhra Sarkar. I was born in Kolkata, India – a huge city that was slowly turning everything green over to concrete – in a conservative and patriarchal society where I felt out of place as an outspoken, free-thinking and creative girl who wanted to pursue the things she loved. By teenage I had to give up my beloved classical dance lessons and, when I finished university, started work in a busy call centre.
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On my weekly day off I would tend the small patch of garden in front of our house. I grew flowers and vegetables. Neighbours came to admire my roses and cauliflowers. I realised how passionately I loved nature, and how happy it made me. Still, when my parents wanted to build a small extension to our house, I could not stop them cutting down the family mango tree.
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In 2021 I came to London. It was a challenging move for an under-confident and self-critical young woman, turned introvert by a new-found language barrier. But I gathered my courage and found a waitressing job at Megan's in the Hamlet in Dulwich Village, meeting many locals and gradually building up my ambitions. Megan's gave me time off to train in creative floristry under the inspiring Rachel Wardley at Tallulah Rose Flower School in Cumbria, famous for its pioneering sustainable and regenerative approach, where many like-hearted enterprises began their journeys. That’s where Flower Hamlet was born, and I proudly follow the Tallulah Rose approach to creativity and sustainability in my own floral practice.
My approach to flowers is simple: I believe in nature, and I believe in beauty. I pour my own creative skills, my ideas and knowledge and love of flowers into your vision of what you would like, and together we make something really beautiful, that creates joy for everyone who sees it.
