GIRL ABOUT TOWN
EDITED BY NUALA MEENEHAN
Nuala Meenehan works in the media and is a leading model.
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ou can imagine the excitement when I received my first invitation to attend my first event since lockdown! Girl about Town has been Girl about the House for the last 12 months. The joy! The anticipation! And what an event! The award-winning floral and plant emporium, Memento on Belfast’s bustling Ormeau Road has just had the most fabulous store refurb and to celebrate re-opening, yours truly was invited for a sneak peek. The smell of beautiful blooms, the sight of terrific terrariums, and fabulous foliage at every point in this gorgeous shop will lift your heart. The award-winning, family-run flower and plant store, founded in 2005 is led by the multi-talented husband duo Gary and Nigel Connolly-Close, who’ve been busy over lockdown. A World Skills UK Gold Medal Winner in Floristry and a Chelsea Flower Show Finalist, Nigel knows a thing or two about delightful dahlias and marvellous monsteras. The Memento mission is clear! Delivering premium luxury flowers, and plants at affordable prices. They offer the most fabulous floristry and plant workshops in their new creative hub in East Belfast so you and your friends can learn how to properly propagate, make your own terrariums and learn clever tips on how to style your home with plants. But there’s so much more to Memento than fabulous flowers that set them apart. The Memento annual random act of kindness event saw the team take to the streets of Belfast to give unsuspecting strangers a gift of roses. During lockdown, they launched a campaign to nominate an NHS Frontline Worker to receive a bouquet. A staggering 10,000 nominations were received and 350 bouquets were hand-delivered as gifts across Northern Ireland. Now that’s something to celebrate!
Gary Connolly-Close and Nuala.
Visit www.mementofloraldesign.com
Q Radio DJ, Jordan Humphries.
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Owners, Nigel and Gary Connolly-Close.
