Scout's Garden

Name: Scout's Garden
Address: 132 High Street, Beechworth, VIC, 3747, AU
Telephone: +61499689052
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A marine biologist with a love of flowers, I have decided to hang up my snorkel and pick up some snips! Scouts Garden is in its infancy, but eventually I aim to provide our community with seasonal, organic, locally grown blooms. Flowers which have not been flown in from far away lands, but lovingly and naturally nurtured and hand picked, right here on our lovely property in Beechworth. These will

one day be available at the farm gate, at local markets and through select local florists. The inspiration behind my journey into the world of flowers is my beloved German Shorthair Pointer, Scout. She taught me to slow down and appreciate the beauty around me, and find joy and wonder in the tiniest things. Sadly, Scout passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, and she now sleeps forever in our garden, under the shade of a silver birch tree. However, her joy and vibrancy will live on in the many beautiful flowers such as peonies, dahlias and sweet peas that I hope to grow where her paws once ran - all of which will flower that little bit brighter with Scouts love. From digging in the first bed, to planting the first bulb and seed, and watching the first flowers appear: I look forward to sharing my journey with you!

13/10/2024

Taking a well earned moment in the hammock after a massive weekend in the garden! I divided 80 dahlia clumps, w**ded the beds, prepped them with w**d mat and replanted 68 dahlias for this season. I’ll put some leftovers of my favourite varieties scattered throughout my cottage garden out the front, purely for their aesthetics 💚 The rest are hopefully all off to a new home! I’ve also got seeds on the go at last (better late than never 😵‍💫). Looking forward to seeing my new flower patch come to life this summer 🌸 My garden brings me so much comfort and joy!

29/09/2024

Good morning flower friends 🌸 It’s been a tough few months after the loss of my sister Lisa and some other personal heartache. Back in 2016 I started Scout’s Garden as a form of grief therapy, after my beautiful German Shorthair Pointer Scout passed away. The garden grew and evolved and helped me immensely, providing something beautiful to focus on amongst the pain of loss. Having my hands in the soil, nurturing my flowers, nurtured me in return. Fast forward 8 years and here I am sitting in some grief and loss once more: and so the flowers must come to help me again 💚 Scout’s Garden is about to be reborn! And so am I 🥰 I’ve got some beautiful flower seeds to plant and plans for some special botanical workshops once my flower collection builds up again. Thanks for sticking around: let’s get this started! 🌸🌺🌼

30/07/2024

A frosty start in the patch this morning at -4.5!!!! The peonies will be loving that situation though in their new beds👌🏻🌸. The kids and I planted a few anemones, snapdragons and poppies around the garden this weekend, and I added a willow screen to the back boundary to tidy things up a bit and provide some more privacy (and another barrier against the pestiferous rabbits 🐇). It will soon be time to plan what I’m going to grow this season and I’m already daydreaming of the beautiful abundance of flowers that will be out here this summer. The rebirth of Scout’s Garden is coming. It makes my heart glad 💚

21/07/2024

It’s been such a wet and miserable few days here in Beechworth, but it gave me a good opportunity to do some more ‘nest fluffing’ in my workshop to turn it into a lovely, inspiring place to fuel some creativity. I’ve been making a hanging installation above my work bench using an old wooden ladder and some dried flowers that are past their best but still look ok. It’s beginning to take shape and I’m loving the positive, warm feelings I get pottering around in the space 🌸 Between the rain showers I got out in the garden to find the hellebores are beginning to wake up, and the daffodils are pushing their shoots towards the sky 💚 I also planted out 2 beds with some peonies, under the watchful eye of my resident magpie family. They are very curious creatures and love to hang out with me. It feels good to end the weekend feeling fulfilled after having the opportunity to do things that fill my soul. Hope you all got to fill your cups, too 😘

31/05/2024

Back at the old patch digging peonies again 🌸 Making good progress today: it’s amazing what sunshine, good tunes and a love-filled heart can help you achieve 🥰 Better days are on the way ♥️

20/05/2024

And just like that, the first frost appeared and stole the perfect beauty of the dahlias like a thief in the night 🥺 Farewell my pretties, see you next season!

27/04/2024

The dahlias are still flowering madly at Scout’s Garden but the chilly mornings are getting more frequent….i will miss looking out my kitchen window at these beauties when the frosts arrive 🌸🌼🌸

05/04/2024

The garden is bringing me a lot of comfort in these difficult days as I process a future without my sister physically here. The dahlias are flowering like mad and I’ve been enjoying the few cosmos I put in this year: they are so cheerful and the bees just love them, visiting regularly in their Jane Fonda-like leg warmers! I got stuck into the workshop today: I’m keen to get it all organised now. I unpacked some little vases and felt a few creative feelings fluttering in my tummy. My head started imagining some future workshops in the space. Under a big dried flower installation suspended from the roof. It feels good to know the creativity is still inside me, despite this heartache. Once I’ve made the workshop a bit more aesthetically pleasing I’ll give you a peek 💚 Thanks for sticking around x

19/03/2024

• MY BEST SISTER • Dear flower friends, in July last year I posted a little video to say that we had received some devastating news about my sister Lisa. I didn’t elaborate at the time, but she had been diagnosed with a rare spindle cell sarcoma, which had appeared in the same location she had so bravely and successfully fought cancer before over 20 years ago, right in the middle of her head. It was one of those scenarios where, at the time of the first cancer, they say ‘there is a small risk that a new cancer will form here at some point because of this treatment, but it’s pretty rare’. Sadly, Lisa experienced this rare phenomenon, and the spindle cell sarcoma was rarer still. She tried some chemotherapy but it didn’t work, and so in October last year she entered palliative care. I am heartbroken to tell you that on March 12th 2024, my beloved sister Lisa passed away in her sleep. She was 50. Lisa lived with this cancer growing in her head, and the knowledge that it would end her life eventually, but still found joy in life right up to the end. She faced her fate bravely and courageously. She was terrified to leave us yet knew that we loved her beyond measure and that we would feel her love for us around us forevermore. The first image here is Lisa in June last year in Selkirk, Scotland, where we are from. She was fiercely proud of being Scottish and loved our wee town so much. The second image is me with my dahlias the night before she died: I intended to send her the photo but ended up forgetting, so she never saw it. She loved Scout’s Garden and was so proud of me. The third image is the sunrise on the morning she passed away. I took this photo not knowing that she had gone only an hour earlier. The last photo is us together in Bermagui, on a sister trip we took in late February. Us in our happiest place: together by the ocean. I will miss Lisa for the rest of my life and am so lucky that she was my sister. My best sister 💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💚🌸

09/03/2024

The dahlias were looking lovely this morning in the new flower patch 🌸 To be honest the rest of the garden is an absolute shambles, I’ve completely neglected it this summer. But I’m trying to be kind to myself: in the next few weeks I will start to have some time to commit to nurturing the soil, and I’ll make some proper plans for planting out the flower beds around the cottage. I’ve got some great books to help me in my planning, and a friend who lives nearby who has the most incredible garden to inspire me. He is very good at reminding me that gardening is very tactile, and by being in it and getting my hands in the soil, the garden will tell me what it needs to thrive. It does the same for me, too 💚

30/01/2024

• BLOOM • Heeeeey flower friends! 🌸 It’s been a while between posts but expect a few more from this point forward! As you can see, the new patch is now in place and the dahlias are on their way! I can’t begin to tell you how comforting it is to finally see some flowers in the back yard: like looking out over an expanse of old, familiar friends. All I’m growing this season are dahlias: just letting the beds settle in and getting a feel for this little microclimate here on High Street. I’ve had a busy January moving out of my studio at the old railway station and transferring everything to my workshop here. I’m in the middle of sorting it all out: once I get it looking Instagram worthy, I’ll post some pics! My mind is full of personal challenges at the moment (you may recall my darling sister Lisa has terminal cancer) but I am slowly letting Scout’s Garden return to my mind. I have lots of ideas for botanical workshops here and am looking forward to taking my little business in some new directions in the future. For now I’m just enjoying seeing some flowers bloom in the patch, pottering in the workshop finding a place for everything, and relishing in the peace my flowers and creativity bring my busy mind. Thanks for sticking by me, rest assured I’m on the comeback! 🌺💚🌸💚🌼 Issy ###

Address

132 High Street
Beechworth, VIC
3747

Telephone

+61499689052

Website

http://www.scoutsgarden.com.au/

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Today’s a good day 👍🏻 Very grateful to be able to replant my peonies in a new temporary location close to home, until the universe figures out where I’m headed next 😅🌸 So so grateful for the kindness shown to me by Chris and Michelle 💚

Sometimes good things come to an end so that better things can begin! I started digging my peonies today: my circumstances mean that my peony dream has to end….for now. They will go off to new homes but I’m looking forward to starting over with Scout’s Garden at my little cottage. And one day I know I’ll have a large property again, with peonies, flowers, a rambling garden, some highland cows…it’s all meant to be 💚🌸💚

The patch is beginning to flower. Everything is much later than I anticipated but it’s ok. It’s a bit like the new space is saying there’s no hurry, take your time. Go gently 🌸 It’s nice to be amongst flowers again 💚

Drumroll please......! Thank you for the amazing response to my billy button plant giveaway! 8 Lucky winners have now been notified 🤗 Congratulations to all of you, I hope your plants are as productive for you as they have been for me! xx

Take 15 seconds out of your busy day to be captivated by this busy wee bee 🐝 foraging within a blousy cosmos in the fading light yesterday evening. Scout’s Garden is proudly chemical-free, growing bee-friendly flowers that are most definitely safe to sniff! #beechworthflowers #consciousflowerscollective #beefriendlyflowers #farmerflorist #safetosniff #beechworth #beechworthhoney #northeastliving #cosmos

A little taste of what was delivered to @beechworthfloral yesterday: this little flower patch just keeps on giving!

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A marine biologist with a love of flowers, I have decided to hang up my snorkel and pick up some snips! Scout’s Garden provides seasonal, organic, locally grown blooms. Flowers which have not been flown in from far away lands, but lovingly and naturally sewn, nurtured and hand picked, right here on our lovely property in Beechworth. These are available at the farm gate, through the Beechworth Food Co-Op and through select local florists. The inspiration behind my journey into the world of flowers is my beloved German Shorthair Pointer, Scout. She taught me to slow down and appreciate the beauty around me, and find joy and wonder in the tiniest things. Sadly, Scout passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, and she now sleeps forever in our garden, under the shade of a silver birch tree. However, her joy and vibrancy will live on in the many beautiful flowers such as peonies, dahlias and sweet peas that I now grow where her paws once ran - all of which will flower that little bit brighter with Scouts love.