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British florist
Gender:
Female
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Birth:
22 September 1959(United Kingdom)
Death:
9 November 2011
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Jane Packer (1959–2011) was a British florist.
Life
Jane Packer was born on 22 September 1959 in Chadwell St Mary in Essex. She worked at a florist and graduated from Southwark College. In 1986, she designed the flowers for the wedding of Sarah Ferguson, and Prince Andrew, Duke of York. In 1989, she started the Jane Packer Flower School.
From 1993 to 1997, she won a Royal Horticultural Society gold medal at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
Awarded the Prince Philip Medal for outstanding achievements in her career in 2005.
She died at Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, on 9 November 2011.
Family
In 1990, she married Gary Alan Wallis; they had one son and one daughter.
Works
- Celebrating with Flowers (1987)
- Flowers for All Seasons (1989)
- New Flower Arranging (1993)
- Complete Guide (1995)
- Living With Flowers (1996)
- Fast Flowers (1998)
- Flowers, Design, Philosophy (2000)
- World Flowers (2003)
- Colour (2007)
- Flower Course (2008)
- At Home With Flowers (2011)