We are delighted to share the news that a brand new queer business has just launched with the arrival of Puffs and Petals.
Your gran’s florist is lovely. This isn’t that.
Puffs & Petals launches today: a Manchester floral studio built on one quietly audacious idea – you don’t choose flowers, you choose a colour. Arrangements are composed around curated palettes, numbered like paint, delivered in a tin. Flowers are what arrives. They’re not what you’re buying.
The shades carry the whole personality. Villain Era, a green for anyone entering theirs on purpose. The People’s Princess, purple and a little heartbroken. Discothèque. Golden Hour. Each one comes with a story – pop culture, queer history, a colour that spent centuries being misunderstood – worn lightly, never explained to death. If you know, you know. Or, just like paint names, they can mean absolutely nothing.
Behind it: Nathan and Toby, husbands-to-be and business partners. Creativity was always the thread. Flowers were the plot twist. The Joseph Massie school of floristry did the rest – fuelled by equal parts obnoxious desire and gay audacity.
“We wanted to build something of our own. Something to share, something beautiful, something that grabbed you by the collar. Ordinary was never the brief.”
New to this? Entirely. But the arrangements speak for themselves – loudly. And they think they’re pretty damn good at it.
Proudly queer-owned, unmistakably Manchester. Colour, camp, and a little well-dressed mischief, to a door near you.
We don’t sell flowers. We sell mood. Joy. Creativity. And a whole lot of personality.
In person for the first time at First Street’s makers market, 15th August.
Holders of Canal St Cards will also enjoy 10% off too.