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 /

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 /

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 /

When I was growing up, my parents gave me two very different takes on the world; Dad was annoyingly straight forward and very logical and Mum was much more likely to go with the flow and get distracted...

17 June, 2015 /

The flowers have started! The survivors of the winter and every year feel like old friends are coming back to stay...

21 April, 2015 /

It may seem like I’m forever pulling flowers apart and carelessly chucking bits and bobs around the table, but I’m actually a complete re-user if there is anything to be saved or salvaged for another arrangement...

03 December, 2014 /