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Jun 30

BAM flower bunches

Last week we dropped off another batch of flower bunches around SE London. They were full to the brim with beautiful summer blooms & we'l...

Jun 30

Potting out propagated babies!

Propagating your favourite botanical beauty is not as tricky as you may have feared! Lots of common house plants are simple to take cutti...

Jun 24

Easy care house plants for beginners

Some of the most hardy and easy to care for house plants for beginners to kick start your urban jungle! All of these botanical babes shou...

Jun 24

House plant repotting for beginners

We often get asked "what is the best way to repot my houseplants", so here it is! An easy to follow step by step guide on how we like to ...

Jun 2

Bunches of BAM blooms

Alongside running BAM we both freelance in other jobs, Kat works in hair & make-up & Ellen is a florist. Like most people during lockdown...

May 22

Botanical activities from your home this weekend 🌿

For all you plant lovers self isolating you can still get your botanical fix straight from your living room! This weekend we're taking pa...

May 12

Simple propagation demo

How to propagate your house plants

May 11

Workshop vote!

As it still doesn't look like we'll be able to leave the house anytime soon we're planning to continue with our online macrame workshops....

May 7

Local home delivery during lockdown

Whilst the lockdown is in place we've been offering free home delivery to households in SE4, SE21, SE22, SE23 & SE26 which means we can a...

May 5

House plant repotting - the basics

Whilst in lockdown we've been having a go at making some demos for you guys, just basic house plant keeping advice that we often get aske...

Apr 29

LOCK DOWN!

We've been really overwhelmed by the amount of orders we've been receiving during these uncertain times. We feel really lucky to be keepi...

Apr 21

New Logo!

We've been trying to be productive during lockdown so decided to do a bit of re-branding to go with our new website. Luckily we have a fr...

Mar 9

Product shots

We're so excited to be working with the super talented photographer Beth Davis to retake our product shots! When we first started BAM we ...

Feb 24

Botanical heaven in Copenhagen!

Ellen has just come back from a weekend in Copenhagen and was amazed at the amount of plants she found in every shop, cafe and bar, you c...

Feb 17

BAM at Greenwich

We're excited to be trading at Greenwich market for the first time this week! We'll be bringing our pots, macrame & plants to create a mi...

Jan 29

Next macrame workshop dates!

We had a full house yesterday at our Macrame Plant Hanger Workshop. Forest plant shop in Depford is such a great location to host, it's t...

Jan 3

Happy 2020!

We’re back on it today after the festive break and there’s a lot in the pipe line for us this year. First off we’re in the process of upd...

Dec 12, 2019

Macrame workshop!

Teaching workshops is one of our favourite parts of the job! Last week we taught a lovely class in the amazing jungly backdrop of Forest ...

Dec 4, 2019

PEXMAS

Check out our blog we wrote for PEXMAS! Hi! We’re Ellen and Kat, the brains behind BAM. We create handcrafted and sustainable botanical h...

Nov 4, 2019

Double Market Weekend

This weekend we had a weekend of outside markets which can become quite challenging as the winter months draw in! Market number 1 was at ...

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