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A bespoke, huge wreath for Alice and a tartan ribbon for her Scottish partner πŸ’« I really enjoy making one off wreaths with considered touches with special meanings, the process of talking, making, then handing over the finished piece, it’s spe
A Christmas wreath made with Cotswold moss, golden bells and strawflowers and a little dusting of snow, for @honeydrop_properties β­οΈπŸŒ²πŸ’« (and a photo of my giant sarcococca!)
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Wreath • strawflowers • gold • golden bells • Cotsw
A wreath for Ploughman’s cottage in Temple Guiting, made entirely of the Cotswolds 🌲πŸͺΎπŸ’« Christmas wreaths for me are a bit of a love letter to this beautiful place I get to call home and so when my brief is to make something completely local,
The light and dark and the shadows and everything shiny with rain round here at the moment πŸ’« And some playtime making tsubo ikebana with lichen covered apple tree branches πŸͺ΅ twisted ivy and viburnum blossom 🌸
Explorations in sogetsu πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ I’m using materials inspired by what’s going on around me, and always from my garden. Since moving to the sticks I’m constantly inspired by this idea of permanence, seasonality, the cycle of the seasons.
Before the frosts is that delicate moment between life and death, it’s everywhere in the garden - you feel the suspense in the air in every dahlia, every leaf, roses crossing the line but still buds appear, none more so than in the rudbeckia, a
Play time with Virginia creepers! πŸͺ­ And a little red apple from Iris 🍎 and dahlias from my garden 🧨 everywhere you drive at the moment here are these amazing ombré leaves! πŸ‚ they climb up houses and hang down, so looking at creating a shap
Luminous cosmos with autumn light, my favourite shelf and a little cubby hole on the stairs, seems like two seconds ago iris would sit in there on her feet. Two days of ikebana for lucky me this week, this was my second arrangement with white cosmos
This weeks ikebana - an upright nageire πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ I didn’t enjoy this week! I used the crossbar method (picture 3) very challenging in itself - I missed my kenzan, particularly because when you go with this crossbar method you are relying on the wei
Labyrinth dahlia at twilight in my garden πŸ‘ but when you’re this beautiful, what’s in a name, such a beautiful beautiful dahlia 🧑🩷 
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Colours of autumn 
Dutch Grown
My Cotswold garden
Botanical pick me up 
In my garden tonight
Strawberry hill flower festival was so ephemeral and inspiring I need these pics on my page as a permanent reminder of the ideas that bubbled up inside me as a result of seeing these wonderful floral sculptures. It was incredible seeing the gothic sp
Dahlias - surely the best bit about autumn (except for having the fire on) πŸ”₯🩷 🎨
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Whilst all my hastily sewn seeds get washed away in torrential downpours outside, inside is my favourite time in the week where I get to play with ikebana on one of my favourite shelfs 🧘🏻‍♀️ I have foraged most of it this week; sloe branches, t

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