Once Upon a Time - Flowers for all your stories

09/06/2024

21/05/2024

01/05/2024

A glimpse of behind the scenes in the past couple of months…lots of mud, diggers, tracing paper, scribbles, meetings, string lines, emails, head scratching, plotting and planning…and a new walled garden is slowly taking shape. Am so very excited!!!


(on an old site)

05/04/2024

It’s been a while.
Dipping my toes back into this world…though the rain is seriously putting me off! I may go back in and start again tomorrow..

18/12/2023

Me, my boots and my doggies are off to garden in pastures new… a blank canvas for everything that’s in my head and more…what could go wrong?

23/10/2023

Dahlias doing their thing when they think no one’s looking…

16/10/2023

Don’t ever ask a Gardening Florist to do the interior design for a new restaurant unless you are prepared for a lot (and I mean a LOT) of greenery to be used
All patiently waiting at home in the wings (and on mantlepiece, window sill, in the bath.. to be put into situ soon!

02/10/2023

Tool shed window. What more can I say?

22/09/2023

Stained glass in the garden …photo obviously taken in the glorious autumn sunshine yesterday, not the deluges of today!!

24/08/2023

Floral Meadows…billowing in the wind, teeming with insects and just all round magical places..just add deep breaths, and a good book

02/08/2023

Echinops ritro, Nepeta and Achillea Summer Pastels by the bucket load

28/07/2023

And breathe…

25/07/2023

It’s been a very very busy couple of weeks…there has been laughter (manic), tears (a lot), coffee (even more) and paracetamol (needs must) to get through this one…it’s been an event and a half, and I’ve loved it, working with a whole load of fabulous folks from some dodgy drawings on the back of an envelope… Cannot wait to show you proper flowery photos…but meantime I’m going to go to bed and will get up next Tuesday

03/07/2023

This is me..

25/06/2023

24/06/2023

The prettiest of Garden Bridal Bouquets..grown by me, picked by me, arranged by me and delivered by me…even though I’ve been doing this for years (and years…)it still makes me smile, and always surprises me…never quite sure how things are going to look..am a back of an envelope kind of a girl

13/06/2023

Eight years ago I married my best mate

09/06/2023

Sweet peas!!! Oh how I’ve missed them

08/06/2023

I wouldn’t have thought for one moment that the gentleman who came around the gardens today..looking fabulous in a delphinium blue suit, would be following me..(in a social media kind of way, not in a stalker kind of way) but if he was then I would like to thank him from the bottom of my heart with his kind words about the garden and also to let him know that I got the name of the beautiful floribunda rose wrong…Ebb tide is what I should have said (hindsight is a wonderful thing…

21/05/2023

Where does time go??? Lots and Lots of Gardening, (seed sowing, planting out, feeding, more planting out, garden tours, admin, planning…)Lots of Weddings (Bouquets, buttonholes, Churches, urns, windows, stately homes…)a few sad days (the most important flowers) Lots and lots of scenery painting, lots more gardening…and lots of plate spinning….