GARDEN SOURCED FLORISTRY

Welcome to my garden studio - a place where floral and botanical design ideas get tested and trialled to share with others, for my both work and joy (and to cater to my obsession for the best planting combinations!). My current garden is still only a few years old, with the knowledge that a gardener must have much patience and vision to see them through the first few years of establishment. Nevertheless, we work as we go, battling sand and Kikuyu and the family dog’s rampages - largely working by hand over the seasons, as inspiration, time and motivation allow.

I largely use floristry as a joyful creative outlet and I focus on celebrating the beauty of nature, growing and garden-sourcing all my ‘ingredients’ as an expression of the wonder and joy of naturally grown and seasonally-focused gifts.

From November to April you can order bouquets to ‘click and collect’ from my shop page. For custom orders such as bridal bouquets or party flowers please feel free to contact me throughout the year.

Because I design and consult for other people’s gardens as well as designing my own, I am always pushing to learn more, refine and develop new ideas from my own hands-on experience, not just from books (of which there is also much learning!). In fact, I really went to garden design school so I could learn how to design my own garden - I do tend to take learning to the extreme and treat study as its own hobby, much to my family’s bemusement!

We garden with the entirity of nature in mind - we use organic emulsions and compost applications throughout the seasons to keep the soil humming with biodiversity and life-supporting, healthy ecosystems and people.

I also work on the principle that my cut flowers form part of my overall landscape design and must work in with the garden as a whole. The aim is that even when greedily snipped for my latest project, my garden still looks and feels like it is lush and cohesive and homely. That, at least, is the goal.