A & E table with half eaten dahlia, recovering verbascum seedling, some mystery plant I’ve rooted which my mum gave me, a giant echium seedling and some lily of the valley bulging seed heads...

06 June, 2016 /

I felt that I’d recently neglected green, so today as there is a definite sense of Spring in the air, I created a green arrangement...

10 March, 2016 /

For the last few weeks I joined in the Colour Lovers project on Instagram for the first time, encouraged by Xanthe Berkely, so I thought I’d put together a selection of my colour tables and some of the other things ‘ordinary’ things that I’ve seen...

04 March, 2016 /

This weekend I had an unplanned visit to the Botanical Gardens in Sheffield. I thought they were amazing and also loved that they were built in the 1860’s so that the scents, and colours of the exotic plants would inspire the people of Sheffield...

15 February, 2016 /

During the Summer I went to a wedding and although I had a new dress I didn’t have a hat or headpiece which went with it, so I decided to make my own. I’m a bit obsessed with propagating succulents at the moment as they...

01 October, 2015 /

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...

25 September, 2015 /

It’s only a month away from the workshop that I’ll be running with Anna Potter ( and @swallowsanddamsons on Instagram )in Sheffield on October 17th and as there are a few places still left, I thought I’d put together another arrangement in the sort of...

14 September, 2015 /