Anyone who spends time observing the seasons knows one universal truth, that patience is a language best learned fluently. In the natural world, there's no use for our impatience. Changes happen...
Articles on: Making
A space to explore joy through nature, creating botanical arts and crafts, sharing nature books, and making beautiful food from plants, with a special love for edible flowers.
Roses but not the same
It is intriguing that despite everything we know, we repeatedly attempt to capture transient things. I suppose that's what makes those things so appealing, their unobtainable momentary perfection...
The power of ‘It’s okay’
After an upsetting event the two words "It's okay" can offer much comfort. I've been the recipient of this easement, both at times of true distress and more trivial troubles. I've found myself...
Sweet peas for Great Uncle Bill
July brought handful after handful of sweet peas. A handful is the number of times I ever met my Great Uncle Bill. A handful is the number of garden tools of his that I now own. Even though in...
The gentle flow of flower pressing
Sometimes, when our heads are full of thoughts and concerns, we need more than a passive activity to distract us. But worries are tiring and can leave us too exhausted to do anything energetic in...
Winter light project
In the northern hemisphere winter has a lot of dark hours, more so the further north you go. For many people that's what makes it the toughest time of the year. Something I do to help my mood in...
Rose infused hand salve…and plant nostalgia
When the roses are in bloom I smell them all the time. Their scent is so delicious that ideally I'd like the flower to be as big as my head so I could bury my face right inside it, close my eyes and...
On Flowers by Amy Merrick
I heard Amy say in a podcast that she had waited nearly a decade to write this book. On Flowers: Lessons from an Accidental Florist is testament to doing something at precisely the right time for...
Petal printed top
Of anything I've ever created using flowers and plants, this is one of my all time favourites. It has the perfect combination of simplicity, satisfaction and a beautiful outcome. Two of the most...
