Name: Jenny Mchale

Business Name: Gallery Flowers

Opening Times: We are open 9am till 5pm and on Saturdays 9am until 4pm.

On bank holidays we do close.

If we have got weddings on then I tend to be working behind closed doors.

But on bank holidays we usually shut.

The Jubilee was different because we had weddings on so we worked.

When did you open your business and why?

I was 19 and it was 27 years ago and I just always wanted to be a florist since I was 14.

I was on the market in the Civic Hall to start with and then I was there for just over a year.

I was in a corridor for about two years and I was in the bottom of the Tate and that is where my name came from because of the Tate Gallery.

So I called myself Gallery Flowers.

The I went and found a little shop that had windows because I had no daylight at all.

So then I got my shop and I was in there for 10 years and then I got bigger and I needed bigger space.

So then I moved over across the road into Gallery Kitchens.

I was still Gallery Flowers.

I was there for 10 years and then we were able to then buy No 9 High Street about four years ago.

Why this location?

Look at it, it is amazing.

It has got bigger windows, more windows, it is spacious, the ceiling is high, it is cool, we are putting vents in the floor and fans at the back of the building so it draws down the hot air.

So it is cooler.

I was able to have led lights that have got no heat, basically do what I could not do in the last 20 years.

This location is perfect, it is literally right in the middle.

So people are not waking to the top of the high street, they are not walking down to the bottom of Green End.

It is central.

We are kind of on a junction here, we have got St Mary's and the streets over.

People come up here and they can go straight ahead and turn right but it is right in the middle.

It is prime location.

Tell us about your business?

We do everything.

At the moment we have got three weddings this week.

I have just been to Rookery Hall, we had one who went off to Portmeirion yesterday.

Tomorrow, we have got Peckforton Castle.

And then after the weddings we have obviously got to collect our stuff.

We do everything to do with weddings, all the arrangements, hiring out candelabras, pedestals, trees that thing.

Everything down to the bouquets and button holes.

We have got three parties on this weekend.

There is a golden wedding function, a birthday and another function.

The three functions are going on at the same time so we have got to do all those flowers.

You have got the day to day normal, people coming in for bouquets, plants, gifts, stuff for themselves.

You name it we will do it.

What has been you proudest moment so far?

There have been so many, citizen of the year, that was really a nice surprise.

I think everything really.

It is just nice to see how I have evolved over the years and stuck out recessions and Covid-19, we worked all the way through Covid-19.

It has been crazy, the last 10 years have been nuts.

What has been your strangest request?

We get a lot.

Funeral tributes, I have done the Flying Scotsman, a big 3D Flying Scotsman train, meerkat, I made a meerkat not long ago.

I made a 3D tiger, anything really.

I made a pigeon, a steam train, a bottle of Stella Artois, a Stella Glass.

Everything can be unusual that I get asked to do.