25 Sep Friday…with garden texture and ferns

As the Autumn creeps on, the textures of the garden are changing as well as the colours, and I love it when everything grows into each other; joined together by falling leaves and fading flowers…it was so nice to have a meeting with Cécile ( from Tiki Brighton ) in the shed this morning about an exciting pop up happening in London this November ( which I’ll keep you posted about very soon…Holly Bell’s ceramics will also feature! ) …although the nasturtiums are far from fading and seem brighter than ever… After our meeting and a potter in the back garden I wanted to pick some ferns from the front garden…I suddenly remembered these amazing fern books I was given by my mum during the summer…they must have belonged to my Granny, but they’re really old so maybe they were her mother’s… I love ferns and when I was about 8 years old I went on a school trip fossil hunting in the Forest of Dean…I was SO excited when I found my fern fossil and then distraught when my best friend dropped it…BUT when I picked up the pieces we realised it had broken to reveal and even better fern fossil! …A bit of a life lesson really; sometimes when things are broken they’re far more deep and interesting…

Anyway, the book is amazing and each colour wood block print which appears is like a pressed fern ( there were also some real old brow pressed ferns hiding on page 230! )…there is a lot of reading to be done now and a renewed fascination…I reckon ferns are going to be the new succulents!!

( and here’s a quick flip through the books to give you the sense of it’s gorgeousness…)