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Catkin Flowers Artisan florist, flower grower and teacher. Creating abundant arrangements that reflect the seasons. Using nature intuitively to restore and renew.

Artisan florist specialising in British grown flowers

30/01/2025

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” – Iris Murdoch

Really missing them right now - it’s a long wait x

22/01/2025

These photos are of the Wolf moon - this months full moon.
As I was looking at it, alongside the beautiful clouds, I experienced a sensation/ emotion which I couldn’t quite put my finger on at the time, but subsequently realised was awe.

Awe is an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, astonishment, humility and is often experienced when we engage with nature.

Experiencing awe in nature is vital to fostering nature connectedness - our emotional engagement and response to nature.
Awe has been shown to have a profound impact on our wellbeing, enhancing happiness, reducing stress, and promoting a sense of interconnectedness with something greater than ourselves.

It isn’t difficult to find that sense of awe in nature - the night sky, a beautiful sunset, a starling murmuration.

But slowing down and really thinking about what is in front of you is important to get that sense of awe in the landscape around you. If you look at a tree and the patterns the branches make or the intricate patterns of the bark, or even look at a seed head and contemplate how a tiny seed can make a plant and all the complexity of the roots, leaves and flowers, then it is easy to become awestruck.

It’s good for us, good for nature, fosters a sense of connection and community and reminds of the immense beauty power and wonder we have around us. That is awesome.

19/01/2025

I am delighted to share with you that and I are jointly running a residential retreat this year.
It is a nature connection retreat held at the utterly stunning in mid Wales.

Our intention is to give you an opportunity to deeply connect with nature, to be nurtured in a relaxing, beautiful environment, to dictate your own pace and focus on moving out of the chatter in your head and grounding your spirit with the earth.

Anna and Robin who have designed the retreat venue have put so much love and thought into the care of their guests. It is in a remote location, surrounded by amazing Welsh scenery and the venue is designed with your comfort and experience in mind.

Joining us to facilitate the retreat is Sarah from and Aimee from who is an incredible chef working with us to design a menu that matches the intention of the retreat.

We would love you to join us - details can be found on our websites and of course feel free to contact us with any questions.
We very much hope you can join us 🧡.

17/01/2025

Imbolc is the Celtic festival that falls between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. It is on 1st Feb and celebrates the first signs of spring.

If you would like to join me for an Imbolc celebration I will be running a workshop with the wonderful . As well as doing a mindful walk in the gardens ( weather permitting 🙈) to set our intentions for the spring , we will be using gelli printing techniques to create botanical collages, adorned with stamps of hares, the moon and owls, to create a magical and beautiful ode to the season.

It is part of my ‘wheel of the year’ series of creative workshops. The link is here https://www.catkinflowers.com/imbolc if you would like to explore further 🤍

12/01/2025

I have a beautiful offering called ‘The Coven’ that starts this month.

It is for women who feel that they are a round peg in a square hole. That how they feel does not match up with how they are expected to be. To help to understand what disempowers us and how we can find and use our intuition and power.

I have some amazing visiting experts over the course of the year :

- a coach specialising in women’s confidence,

an author and HR consultant specialising in the challenges women face at work,

a mentor with many special skills whose business revolves around empowering others,

and me - a nature based practitioner whose skills lie with the earth and calling people back to it.

It is a mixture of practical advice, mentoring and coaching, using the power of nature and energy, a bit magical - a mix of things to use a wide range of expertise and techniques to help you to step into yourself.

It is emotional, empowering and magical and it was an honour to share it with such magnificent women last year.

I’m here to answer any questions you might have or if you want to talk it through. There is accommodation on site if you are a distance away 🧡

09/01/2025

Sparking frost days bring standing seed heads to life.
I always leave my seed heads and dead stems on the plants right up until new growth comes through in early spring.
It provides structure and habitat and a glorious scaffolding for frost to drape itself over - magical at this time of the year.

07/01/2025

If all the new year stuff is stressing you out, if you are still resting and reflecting, if your mind and body needs quiet down time then don’t force yourself into something that doesn’t feel right.

Obviously most of us need to go to work, but beyond that, plan, dream, reflect, to be ready to take action with the light and the sun. Follow nature’s cue, let it unfold gently.

If you want to reflect and unfurl together I have some offerings in January to take advantage of the dreaming season.

The first is ‘Unearthing’ with on 15th, followed by ‘The Pathway’ starting on 29th.
I also have ‘The Coven’ starting on 21st.
Let’s use this wintering season to explore all the magical possibilities 🤍.

Visit my website to find out more.
www.catkinflowers.com

24/12/2024

Signing out for a couple of weeks to spend much needed time with my family and rest and recharge - to follow nature’s cue to rest and sleep. Thank you so very much to all of you who support my business and share with me our love of and connection to nature.
Wishing you all a peaceful and restful Christmas x

21/12/2024

Today is the winter solstice - the point in the year where we have the shortest day. We sit with the dark as the sun seems to stand still for the next few days and then the light returns. It is a beautiful festival of renewal and rebirth, a festival to honour nature. It invites us to reflect on what we want to lay to rest in the dark and what we want to birth with the return of the sun.
As we wait for the light to return we light candles, lights and fire. The ritual of inviting the outside in is also a significant part of the solstice - weaving greenery into wreaths, bringing in garlands, decorating trees and branches is a way of honouring the earth and celebrating the living vibrant green. The wreath particularly embodies unity and balance, symbolising continuity and reassurance. However dark it might be now, the light will come back.
Wishing you all a beautiful solstice 🤍

05/12/2024

Seasonal wreaths are your interpretation of the season, the surroundings, your garden, ingredients available to you, your personality, mood - so many things.

They are a celebration of nature, a deeply ingrained cultural symbol and huge fun to make in a group.

What they are not is a stick to beat yourself with because you think they are not as good as someone else’s . Enjoy them however you love them 💫

These are a couple of my seasonal offerings which have bought me joy to make .

20/11/2024

We had the pleasure of decorating the Great Hall as well as the Drawing Room for their ‘A Christmas Chorus’ Christmas decs. Inspired by the beautiful carol ‘In the bleak midwinter’ we used pared back branches on the table, fireplace and sideboards with dried clematis and other dried material to create a spare and wintery feel . But you need some drama too so hand made paper snowflakes (courtesy of ), bracken garlands and birch trees bring the winter landscape in and around.
The Hall is open Weds -Sun until 15th Dec, then daily until 23rd Dec. Tickets need to be booked in advance through Doddington Hall website.
Images 1-3
My team were and Jane Bowtell.

18/11/2024

🎶let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! 🎶….
This is my installation in the beautiful drawing room for ‘A Christmas Chorus’ , their Christmas theme for this year.
We used dried hydrangeas to make clouds and dried allium heads for falling snow, as well as hand made paper snowflakes made by Michelle
The Christmas trees were grown by Doddington, the birch trees are from the woodland and the leaves on the ground are from the beautiful ancient chestnut trees in the garden.
We loved making this and hope you love it too . Tickets need to be booked via Doddington Hall website.
Huge thanks to my team , Jane Bowtell and
Photo 1 and 4 courtesy of

06/11/2024

This is the October full moon -the Hunter’s moon rising.
Do you feel like the person hidden in the shadow? Do you feel unseen, unheard, unvalued?
Told by a patriarchal system that you are lesser, that your intuition, your compassion, your connection to nature are weak and not important?
What if that beautiful moonlight, a powerful symbol of feminine energy and power were to illuminate you? What would it reveal that is hidden?
Your wisdom, your resilience, your grace , your strength.
Join me for the Coven and step into your power - details ☝🏻

02/11/2024

Some beautiful images of the cutting garden from Guy Petheram Garden Design

31/10/2024

Today is the Celtic festival of Samhain. It falls between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice and represents the transition into the darkest part of the year.
It invites us to take our cue from nature and go inwards. What is coming with us into the dark, what is getting left behind?
As gardeners we always take stock of our growing season around now. What worked, what didn’t, what gets moved about, what didn’t work? What do we want more of, less of? Samhain invites us to apply these questions to ourselves - it’s the end of one cycle and the beginning of the next.
It is also a time where the boundary between our world and the otherworld of the spirit is thin - it’s a liminal or in-between space. It’s a time for reflection and meditation and to still your mind and listen to what you need to hear.
Samhain blessings - honour yourself, Mother Earth and all your loved ones 🙏

28/10/2024

I am delighted to collaborate with the wonderful Jessica from for a festive workshop in a few weeks time.
Jessica will provide you with a silver wreath pendant and chain and you will hand stamp it with a word or words that have meaning for you.
Maybe there’s a word or mantra that has got you through a difficult year? Maybe there’s something you’d like to gift to someone you love? Have my flowers told you something on a previous workshop that resonates with you?
I’ll help you find the words and Jess will help you to capture them on silver.
You’ll also further personalise your pendant with a nature inspired silver pendant charm.
It’s a short workshop, leaving you plenty of time to visit the other Christmas offerings .
You can find details here https://www.catkinflowers.com/creative-collaborations

13/10/2024

We are approaching Samhain, the point between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice.
By marking these points on the wheel of the year we take our cue from nature and mirror what the energy of the season is inviting us to do.
Samhain is the point at which we start to head into the dark and as nature beds down and the work starts to happen underground so we are invited to rest and reflect and set intentions as the wheel turns again.
I have a beautiful celebration of Samhain coming up . Along with we will use sound healing, reiki and yoga to help you rest, reflect, let go of what you don’t need, to facilitate a deep state of relaxation with awareness to help us to go inwards and nurture ourselves – a state that we, and nature, will be in until change comes with the winter solstice. The link is here https://www.catkinflowers.com/samhain x

09/10/2024

We have released our 2025 dates for ‘The Pathway’. An 8 month programme designed to help those of you who are nature loving creatives who are stuck or at a crossroads. It’s designed to help you find you way to a business that fits you and your values, no matter how niche that might be.

This is run jointly by and myself and here we talk about our two offerings ‘ Unearthing’ and ‘The Pathway’ .

It’s a snippet of a longer video where we discuss in a bit more depth our vision for these offerings.

You can find the longer video on my website here https://www.catkinflowers.com/-professional-development

If this resonates and you have questions or want to have a chat about it then get in touch x

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We have released our 2025 dates for ‘The Pathway’. An 8 month programme designed to help those of you who are nature loving creatives who are stuck or at a crossroads. It’s designed to help you find you way to a business that fits you and your values, no matter how niche that might be. This is run jointly by @fionapicklesartist and myself and here we talk about our two offerings ‘ Unearthing’ and ‘The Pathway’ . It’s a snippet of a longer video where we discuss in a bit more depth our vision for these offerings. You can find the longer video on my website here https://www.catkinflowers.com/-professional-development If this resonates and you have questions or want to have a chat about it then get in touch x

I thought you would like to see a video of my installation for Doddington Hall and Gardens ‘ Christmas on the riverbank’ This is in the beautiful drawing room but the whole house is decorated and it looks absolutely magical . If you would like to visit then tickets are available from Doddington Hall’s website. The beautiful herons and paper birds were designed and made by Lumo Workshop and the volunteers at Doddington helped to make the small birds. I’m thinking a heron might get smuggled out under my jumper …….

The beautiful cherry walk @doddingtonhall is looking, and smelling, stunning. I hosted a mindfulness walk today in the gardens and woodland, taking the opportunity to be immersed in these spectacular blossoms. Such a lovely morning with all proceeds for this and all my next mindfulness walks being donated to @disastersemergencycommittee and @ifawglobal to assist their efforts in Ukraine. Huge thanks to everyone who has booked so far 🙏.

Blossom or snow?

My roses are coming into flower in the cutting garden which is crazy! I now have lilac, lily of the valley and roses - this isn't normal and is down to the hot and dry weather, and although I am a bit disturbed about this I am enjoying the fragrance overload. This is a bit of video of the roses from the cutting garden x

Wallflowers in the cutting garden

Another snippet from the cutting garden - wallflowers this time - I wish you could smell them!

Another snippet from the cutting garden - hyacinths this time - I wish you could smell them!

It's certainly the time to try new things and I am experimenting with filming bits and bobs in the garden. Excuse any wobbliness - I need to practise and see how they upload etc so bear with me while I work it out! Enjoy the hellebores (if it posts the right way up!!)

I just reposted this because I saw it was upside down😆 I don't think it was me... but anyway - the beautiful cherry in all its glory at Doddington!