Dried flowers with an artistic, native twist. Pollinator friendly, chemical and spray free.
🐝 Flashback to many seasons ago in the first of The Nuttall Patch’s garden. The lovely Kate // came and took some incredible photos - I can’t wait to have her back in our jungle, snapping away some more beautiful photos and chatting all things gardening!:.
🥹 Wow, what a day! I am truly on a high and buzzing 🐝 Thank you to all who came out to The Handmade. Corner Market - it was such a joy seeing some familiar faces and meeting some amazing new ones! All of your kind words to me at my stall today, really touched my heart - it was so lovely to see that my true slow craft of sowing seeds, growing blooms, drying them and then turning them into arrangements and wreaths, was truly appreciated. I enjoyed all of the lovely gardening related chats and will be keen to see some familiar faces at our upcoming plant sale in September. It was so nice to be back in the market scene - thank you to Chelsea from .cornermarket for putting on the event! Now, time for a cuppa and probably a nap 😴 :.
🌾 The Nuttall Patch at The Handmade. Corner Market today!
9am-1pm
Summerhill Community Hall - Stanley Street
🫶🏻 All packed and ready to go for tomorrow’s market event The Handmade. Corner Market - this event is inside the Summerhill Community Hall, so no matter the weather, it will be kicking off at 9am until 1pm.
Hope to see you there! :.
🌾 3 More Sleeps! I am so excited to be making The Nuttall Patch’s market debut this coming Saturday at The Handmade. Corner Market - it will be so lovely to see some familiar faces and meet some new ones, so if you are coming along, please introduce yourself to me!
🌸Some of the beauties that I will have at the market: Tussie-Mussies (pictured), arrangements in hand painted vases, market mini bunches, wreaths, sensory packs, confetti packs and some sweet handmade cards (pictured) by my beautiful friend Jess Achilles Cut Flowers
🫶🏻 “Community over Competition” : Jess is a dear friend of mine. We do a lot of back scratching in the form of flower/foliage/plant exchanges - her flower farm reflects my ethics & values when it comes to: sustainable, locally grown, chemical & spray free, zero bleaches, dyes or preservatives. Alongside that, her support with getting The Nuttall Patch to this point has been incredible - a bit of PDA: love you Jess! 😘 :.
🌚 🌝 New colours in The Tussie-Mussies for the upcoming The Handmade. Corner Market here in Launceston. This one pictured is a dark slate grey, which just makes the perfect match for bright Billy Buttons & Tansy! :.
💥 Leucospermum So Exquisite is so close to flowering - striking orange firework like flowers on a soft blue grey foliage, this beauty dries really well too. Also, my Billy Buttons have not stopped flowering… they are still going great guns, talk about a productive plant! :.
🫶🏻 This Everlasting Daisy is amazing - Salmon Rose. This particular bloom has the most perfect ombré. I am letting the flower on the far right go to seed, to try and have the same effect next season. Nature is so clever and a mystery - this particular flower is on a stem shooting off the side of the mother stem. The rest of the flowers on the mother stem are more blocked in colour - swipe across to see the rest of the blooms, all on the same plant! Nature, you are just too cool.:.
🌸 One of the most important things to me is keeping it all natural and all local. I am obsessed with gardening, I have a huge seed collection and I am always trying to squeeze one more plant into a garden bed!
I am proud to say that between myself, close friends and family, everything is grown from seed and cuttings. I don’t use any chemicals or sprays in the garden and I also air dry naturally, no bleaches, dyes or preservatives - super safe for little ones to sniff and play with, and even safer for your home compost if need be!
Keeping it local is also important to me - so if you are ever faced with the choice, please consider the local growers first! We come in all shapes and sizes, big farms on acreage and micro patches in the backyard... but one thing we all have in common: our love and appreciation for growing things.
🫶🏻 It is no secret, I absolutely love making wreaths. I love the symbolism, the way in which they can be seasonal but even more so, be just beautiful pieces of all-year-round floral art. I am sentimental, a keepsake is a keeper in my books - and to have a keepsake from your wedding day, is something special …to say the least. That is why I have created the concept of The Native Nest.
💌 Get in touch: [email protected]:.
✨ The Tussie-Mussies are all tagged up and ready for The Handmade. Corner Market at the end of the month.
It has been about ten years since I was last at a market with my former jewellery business That Vintage - I have missed the market vibe, the community and the pre-market hustle. I am so grateful to be heading back into the scene! I always felt deep down, that I would be creating and making within my life - I feel like this particular craft right now, justifies all the plants I have, the stockpile of seeds and the obsession with being in the garden daily - not that you need to really justify that! :.
💐 Launceston friends, pop this one on your calendar - would love to see some familiar faces and meet some new ones! :.
🌸 Pretty Monday Morning Blooms - a big bunch of dried everlasting daisies for my dear friend Jess - I spent yesterday with Jess dividing up more of her dahlia tubers for her upcoming sale - so many pretty blooms on offer from her, be sure to check out her page!
I am finishing up my third cup of tea for the morning, before heading outside to the potting bench - sowing more seeds today: everlasting daisies, echinacea, echinops to name a few… and potting up some more yarrow seedlings for our upcoming Spring Plant Sale. The plant sale will have so many goodies: perennial and annual flowers, herbs, veg, dahlia tubers, indoor plants and succulents. Phew! If Jess & I weren’t already busy, we sure will be now 😂 :.
✨ The Honeymoon Bunch :: a little while ago, my sister-in-law Emily, handed to me the flowers left over from her wedding to Jak …and then The Honeymoon Bunch was born!
Using focal floral elements from what was saved from their day, I recreated two custom everlasting arrangements in chosen vases, so their day can live on in more than just photographs and memories.
If this is something that you would like done with your special blooms, please get in touch! :.
🌸 A pair of custom made wreaths for the lovely Jemma - sweet mix of pink and white everlasting daisies, white winged everlastings, feathery pink celosia, statice and grevillea foliage. :.
✨ Rewind back to earlier in the year: earthy & fluffy wreath making… a mix of beautiful natives and hints of yarrow, statice and scabiosa. One of my favourite native foliages to use is Leptospermum Starry Night, it has that deep warm purple to green ombré on narrow leaves, the white flowers soften to a pink when dried and the little seed pods are just too cute! This wreath hangs in my entry way of my home: all-year-round decor piece! Get in touch if you’d like to custom order a wreath for your home 🌸
🌾 The Tussie-Mussie & The Morning Light :: another batch of little Tussie-Mussies are complete, sweet hand painted wheat coloured vases with cute mixes of tea tree, banksia, everlasting daisies, feverfew and poppy pods. :.
🐚 Everlasting Daisies … why do I love them? The colours are so intense and varied, like this beauty is Silvery Rose but it has got a sweet hint of a peachy vibes. You’ll never know what shade you’ll truly get until they bloom and I love every single one of them! For me, they are still prolific in the garden - I haven’t lost any plants to frost (touch wood) so far and the buds are as big as the best blooms in the warmer months. I’ve been picking just the buds lately, for wiring and The Dried Nature Bits boxes, but the stems are actually alright length for what some would call “old” plants. I think next season will be my most colourful ever in regards to Everlasting Daisies; I have planted so many different seedlings and have started some new colours in seeds too… bring on the blooms!:.
🌸 Dried Nature Bits Confetti - three beautiful mixes to pick from, each box comes with twelve cones. Mixes include a variety of natives and cottage flowers - all free from sprays, chemicals, preservatives and dyes; fully biodegradable.
Which is your favourite?!
💌 DM to purchase/more info :.
💜 The first of the Purple Podded Pea flowers - I hope we have an abundance of peas, these are my favourite garden snack! Plus their flowers are just the cutest.:.
🌾 These beauties are all available to purchase - please get in touch via message for more information 🧡 :.
✨ Dried Nature Bits - a bowl of eye candy! Look at those colours… the textures… you can almost smell it too, I bet! :.
🌾 The Tussie-Mussie is going to be one of my feature items that I will be offering from The Nuttall Patch.
An earthy colour palate with a focus on Natives and little hints of cottage goodies too.
The notion behind a Tussie-Mussie is not new, it is something that dates way back to Victorian times, yet it is still something we do now: an expression of thoughts in the language of flowers; a just-because, a thinking-of-you…
Please get in touch via DM or email if you’d like to purchase!
💌 [email protected]
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🦋 Throwback Thursday - the rainy, Autumn day edition 😂 …a look out the window and anyone would think we are in the middle of winter, grey skies, wind and rain - but winter hasn’t quite started yet, although it certainly feels gloomy! So let’s throw it back, to some time in the thick of Summer when the garden was an explosion of colour and butterflies. Feels like a lifetime ago. (And I say it every year!)
The flowers won’t be far away though, I have some poppies about to crack open, statice is still pushing up flowers and the everlasting daisies are still hanging on. The new perennial garden beds are settling in really well and promise so many blooms in the near future. But for now… I guess everything is getting a good soaking in 🌧️ 🤷🏻♀️ :.
🌾 Bunny Tail Grass - who would have thought one could be so excited over a seed head of a grass 😂 well, I sure am… this is the first one for me! I have my plants in pots, they seem to really love it - so if you want to grow a grass like this, but don’t want it to actually take over, the pot method is an option!
With saying that 😆 I will be planting out some baby plants into my perennial garden bed because it will be super cute mixed in with the echinacea, echinops, statice, everlasting daisies and rudbeckia! :.
💐 Launceston & surrounds: I do have some dried arrangements with vases included, available for purchase at the moment. If you’d like to come check them out in person (no obligation to buy) please send me a message!
🌈 Dried Nature Bits Confetti - fully biodegradable, all natural, no dyes or preservatives used. Sweet smelling, crunchy tactile goodness. A mix of eucalyptus and tea tree leaves, kangaroo paw, everlasting daisies, scabiosa, amaranth, bunny tails, statice, zinnia and dahlia petals plus other goodies!
💌 I am opening up orders for my confetti - if this is something you’d like at your next celebration, please get in touch! [email protected]:.
🤎 Nuts about gum nuts! Quintessentially Australian, a gum nut is one of my favourite things about our native flora. It boggles my mind that they start out as super tiny buds with caps, then they burst open into a firework of stamens - the fireworks fade and drop out, leaving behind a swollen nutty home bearing the next generation of seeds. The magic doesn’t stop there though - the nuts start off green and as they dry, they fade to a blend of greys and browns.
Are you a lover of the flowering stage or the nutty stage? :.
🌾 This look is so my vibe - natives being the main act, with strong supporting roles from some beaut scabiosa seed pods, poppy pods & winged everlasting daisies.
The natives that I have used are: banksia, eucalyptus, tea tree and wild grasses. :.
🌸 A slow morning, sitting in the sunshine, wiring up freshly picked Everlasting Daisies. I use the wired ones in the wreaths, they are easier to attach and hold in place by wrapping around the vine of the wreath base. Look at those colours, sweet peachy jewel tones and fresh white - I am hoping to grow a few other colour varieties next season, dark purples and variations in pink. :.
Welcome to The Nuttall Patch - my name is Sophie and I am obsessed with growing plants and flowers. I am also deeply in love with native foliage and blooms.
My background is in creative arts and retail, but since having my daughter, the urge to grow things has become more of my focus. Thanks to my wonderful husband Ben and the helpful hands of our daughter, my gardening world is blooming more than ever. I also have some pretty amazing, like-minded green thumb friends in my life, who are forever inspiring me and helping me out with baby plants, flowers and foliage.
Our little garden is made up of oodles of pots, a couple established garden beds and eight raised beds which are in constant rotation of vegetables, flowers and herbs.
I grow, forage and dry the floral and foliage elements that I use to create unique dried arrangements and wreaths. I am a maker, creative and artist - botanical art & illustration is my background. It is from this side of my brain that I endeavour to create unique pieces.
My passion is prolonging the joy of flowers - I don’t use any chemicals, sprays or dyes; everything is dried naturally in my humble shed, so it is safe to compost at home, if need be.
I am passionate about local - local growers and suppliers; knowing where florals come from and gently educating folk about the importance of seasonality and locally grown elements.
If you have an empty vase that needs filling, a special celebration coming up or want to talk flowers with me, please get in touch!
Sophie 🌸
🎨 The Nuttall Patch portrait by Bianca Jagoe Illustration + Design
Launceston, TAS
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