Showing posts with label spring flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring flowers. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Mulberry Lunch Flowers






Since the arrival of the newest Cublet, I've been properly hibernating.  Living life slightly a la Waynetta Slob.  I've spent two months in pyjamas.   Night and day.  Maybe a tracksuit bottom for a good day/special occasion. I've had Nashville on on a loop, pesto pasta for every meal  and all forms of self-beautification felt like a far and distant memory.  I cannot remember the last time my legs saw a moisturiser.  Or I saw them for that matter.  Poor Chaz.  
But last week I ran out of Nashville episodes, the sun put his hat on and I did start to feel slightly more human again.  I got back in my jeans, did the school run with all three and even put on mascara.
  

And then I went back to work.  My first job, post baby -  flowers for a spring lunch in London at the Mulberry showroom.  The brief was to create a relaxed yet wild feel with green and white flowers and all in takeable-home vases.  So I did a mix of white potted muscari in ribbed, chunky glass jars and Kilner jars bursting with ammi, ranunculas, anemones, blossom and lilac.

Even if I say so myself, they did look pretty special.  Perfect for a spring time wedding in case anyone reading is thinking about that...














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Friday, 2 May 2014

Tulip Fever at Worton


My love of tulips is verging on obsessional.  Put them and Worton Organic Garden together and I can barely string a sentence together.  I think the fact that I can't seem to grow more than one tulip at a time makes Worton's abundance of them even more miraculous to me. Or maybe it's just because they are so unbelievably ravishing.  Either way, you know where to find me come spring next year... 
















Saturday, 13 April 2013

Spring garden pickings

Being able to pick enough flowers from the garden to make a proper bouquet is making me ridiculously happy.  I may have cheated and bought the hyacinths but the rest - the hellebores, euphorbia, blossom and daffodils are all grown by my own fair hands..   Sarah Raven eat your heart out.







Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Helebore Heaven


This week I've moved on from the re-housing of primroses to the  picking of Helebores.  My garden is full of them.  Definitely one of the highlights of my new life in the country.  






Yesterdays's creation - Helebores with spring branches wrapped in raffia.