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07/03/2022

When a flower lover makes salad!

01/31/2022

Hello sunshine! I’ve been hibernating for awhile now, how about you? Although we’re still smack in the middle of winter, the sunny days are lasting a little bit longer and the cold will soon have a little less bite. We’ve made it through January, friends, and soon the world will be pulsing with colour and life again! Yay!!!

10/12/2021

I love this time of the year for all of it’s graceful decay. I put this garden grown euonymus on a grapevine wreath in the middle of summer and hung it outside. Since then it has bleached to a grey white and morphed into a cool sculptural shape. With the addition of a couple of deep pink hydrangeas for colour, I think it looks great!

10/11/2021

Happy Thanksgiving!

10/07/2021

I had the pleasure of meeting the lovely bride and groom, Melanie and Angel, when they modeled for a styled wedding shoot I did last October. I was honoured that they chose me to do the flowers for their wedding for real this past weekend. I also loved that they wanted to include as much rich colour as possible. They really chose the right time of year to make that happen!

10/01/2021

Today’s workshop! So happy to have this beautiful bounty of flowers to work with. From my garden and with a little help from and Blaney’s Florists. 😊

08/18/2021

There were some glorious sky colours going on last night! And thanks to my wonderful sis, I now have a camera that can capture them! Get ready for lots more flower pics friends!

08/12/2021

Good morning! My garden is overflowing with bright, cheery colour!

08/10/2021

When Monarda deadheading becomes herbal tea production. I also saved the beautiful, fragrant, seed heads for fall wreath making. More news on that in the coming weeks!

07/19/2021

Beautiful flowers for beautiful people! Thanks for being you and everything you do!

06/28/2021

Such a very sunny Monday! EVERYTHING in the cutting garden is about to pop. I sense a giveaway coming soon.

06/13/2021

When food fridge becomes flower fridge. A little somethin' for my pals 's market table

06/11/2021

Now that I am working with flowers "professionally" I don't tend to have bouquets for myself. I just have lots of "vase life tests". But sometimes they turn out pretty too! This one even made it into a cool vase I got from .collective

06/10/2021

The tiniest cosmos in the world! I don't *think* I bought a dwarf variety, but they are blooming already at barely 6" high!

06/04/2021

Some interesting wildflowers I came across on a woodland walk. Can anyone identify them?

05/27/2021

Some soon to be planted lovelies and the cutting garden taking shape.

05/21/2021

I've never been so excited about a pile of dirt in my life! And some surprise apple blossom confetti in the wheelbarrow. 😊

05/20/2021

The flowering trees in my garden. May edition.

05/20/2021

05/20/2021

I'm so glad I decided to give some of my dahlias a head start inside. A few more days of hardening off and into the ground they go.

05/19/2021

I don't think this apple tree blossomed quite so gloriously last year. This photo doesn't really do it justice!

05/17/2021

Lovely lilacs!

05/10/2021

The beautiful bonus of my flower foraging adventures this weekend were these marvelous morels! Probably the first foragable crop I ever learned to gather, they are just as magical to find today as when I was 5.

05/09/2021

And this one is for my mum! She and I have very different design aesthetics but I think I have come up with something pleasing to us both. She takes care of me when I can't and helps me so much every day. Thanks mummy, I love you!

05/09/2021

Happy Mother's day! The only items in this bouquet that were not foraged were the lilac from my garden and, fittingly, a spike of lovely, pink, manchurian cherry blossom from my mother's garden. Thank you mum, for everything you do and for helping me make my dreams come true. 🌸🌿💗

05/08/2021

Foraging for Mother's day bouquets. Pics 2 and 3 are wild hydrangea, which I didn't even know grew in the area. I think it's my new favourite!

05/03/2021

I didn't really intend to become to become a flower grower, but what with a global flower shortage and local farmers oversubscribed, whatcha gonna do? I am by no means a gardening expert but one rule I've learned and follow to the best of my ability is: Do It Now. Think your plants might need some water? Do it. Now. Suddenly remember that the time to start a certain seedling is fast approaching? Do it now. So, when a neighbour advertised they had free phlox from established plants they had just divided, I grabbed the sumach by the staghorns and got some roots in the ground!

04/12/2021

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times! A carpet of beautiful blue scilla. And the dreaded, unrelenting garlic mustard... and... is that poisonous parsley? Say it ain't so!!! Any guesses as to the plant those deeply cut leaves belong to? Is it friend or foe?

04/12/2021

Aaaaand.... I had my back turned to build my flat pack VegTrug mini nursery to get these babies to safety as soon as possible, and she decided to sit in a seed tray! Ironic that I named my cat Petal and she is intent on destroying all plant life! Thank goodness she sat on the ones that haven't sprouted yet. I still have some hope.