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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

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

03/10/2024

This beautiful sculpture was made by
An owl and moon she represents the divine feminine. The hidden, the intuitive, the instinctive part of us.

The sacred feminine and the sacred masculine are not singular and isolated energies—instead, they exist in balance and are complementary to each other.
It has nothing to do with gender, rather, there exists a balance between our energies.
Women are not one and men are not the other, both energies need to be in balance. Some people embody one more than the other, although this can shift, flow and evolve.

But, the sacred feminine part of us is so often devalued - the hidden, the knowing, our intuition, compassion, our connection with nature are often dismissed, to great detriment to society and the planet, and people who often strongly embody sacred feminine energy feel lesser and learn to distrust their intuition and wisdom to their great detriment.

This is what I am seeking to redress in my offering ‘The Coven’ to help those people to stand firmly in their wisdom. It’s often (but not exclusively) those of us who are in or approaching menopause who start to feel the rage or start to feel their power but don’t trust or recognise it.

If this resonates with you, then perhaps explore my Coven offering, you can find the details on my website - there’s a link to it here https://www.catkinflowers.com/the-coven

If you need to stay overnight there is accommodation on site and some lovely places nearby, contact me if you need some help with that.

22/09/2024

Today is the autumn equinox, where day and night length are equal.
These cosmos were sown at the spring equinox and come to the end of their life on the other side of the wheel .
Their beautiful essence will transform into seed where they will wait, dormant, through the winter until they start again when the wheel of the year tips us back into the light .

06/09/2024

The wheel of the year is turning and we are heading into autumn.
Lammas on 1st August was the mid-point between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox, so one foot in summer but one foot on the road to autumn.
The autumn equinox is on 22nd of this month so we are well en route. The equinox represents the harvest, transformation, balance and is a beautiful time to connect with nature and mark this seasonal transition.
I am running an autumn equinox workshop in the gardens on 18th September (Mabon in the wheel of the year series).
We will do a mindful walk in the gardens, foraging as we go and create a beautiful urn full of flowers to celebrate the seasonal harvest of the garden and our connection to nature.

Details are here https://www.catkinflowers.com/mabon

I’d love you to join me .

02/09/2024

and I have been reimagining my cutting garden . To put habitat at the heart of it and to try new ideas and ways of managing a cut flower garden.

We wanted to have sculptural elements in the garden that would also serve as habitat for invertebrates but could also be used practically to support climbers and would also be beautiful.

We started off some towers in the early spring and yesterday we finished one completely.
It provides a variety of habitat as well as nesting material. The grassy material you can see on the top layer is the dried remains of the therapy garden that we cut down in the spring 🥰. We have apple prunings from the garden, pine cones, hazel poles and logs from the woods and the roof on the top will keep everything dry.

We already have a corten steel dish with water in the garden for the birds, which they love, so we wanted to try and get some more water into the space.
So the roof of the tower is lined with a waterproof liner and creates a shallow pool of water on the top. Drainage tubes coming down the inside of the towers ensure the water doesn’t fill up too far and spill down the sides ( this is the ingenuity of designers - I would have just chucked a bit of wood on the top - which is exactly why Guy designed and engineered it 😆).

We love it but more to the point we hope the creatures we share the space with do too.

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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