Our Story

Tinny Blossoms started with Jenny - our mother (and mother-in-law) — who has always had a knack for turning ordinary things into something beautiful. Long before there was a business, there was a garden: her garden, which she's spent years shaping into a place full of colour, character, and things reused and reimagined rather than bought new.

For a while, that creativity went quiet. Jenny started experiencing symptoms that got harder to explain and harder to live with, and after seeing specialist after specialist, an MRI finally revealed a mass at the base of her brain. She was rushed to hospital and had surgery just days later. It was a frightening stretch for our whole family — but the surgery went well, and something unexpected happened during her recovery: the block on her creativity lifted. She found herself filling sketchbook after sketchbook with ideas she'd been storing up without even realising it.

As she got back on her feet, Jenny went looking for inspiration wherever she could find it — other makers, other gardens, other people turning scraps into something special. One idea stuck: using old tin cans — the kind that would otherwise go straight in the bin — to create layered, hand-painted flowers for the garden. It was a perfect fit for someone who'd always loved reusing things to make her own garden beautiful, and Tinny Blossoms was born.

Jenny roped in her husband Mark early on — handing him the spray cans and the bolts and putting his handiness with tools to good use, layering and securing each flower together. He's been part of it ever since, whether that's manning the stall at markets or quietly working through a batch of flowers while Jenny's at work. He's also, by his own family's account, very good at doing as he's told.

For five or six years, it stayed a much-loved hobby — a stall at the odd local market, flowers made in between everything else life throws at you. Now, Sam and Phil are stepping in to help grow what Jenny and Mark started into a proper family business — still hand-cut, hand-painted, and made from real recycled tins, just with a few more hands (and a website) behind it.

Every flower we make starts life as rubbish — a dog food tin, a tuna can, a tomato tin — and ends up saving at least 5 cans from landfill. So far, that's added up to around 1,000 tins and counting, all turned into something that'll sit in a garden and make someone smile for years, instead of sitting in the ground for centuries.

That's Tinny Blossoms: one family, a lot of tins, and a garden that started it all.