March 2012
31 posts
Birthday Flowers
I always enjoy making arrangements for birthday surprises. These two abundant bouquets were made for customers who requested special bunches for those they love; a friend and a sister. It is the best thing on earth to be given a favourite colour, or perhaps no instruction at all; simply trusted to go and conjure up something beautiful.
All my bunches come wrapped with a gift card. Drop me an...
A secret garden wedding
A private garden setting, green shaded bowers providing secluded nooks for guests to explore, narrow winding paths through the ivy, candles flickering in the dusk. A truly magical wedding like A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Thanks Z&N. The inspiration for these flowers came from faded Victorian-era photographs (think Julia Margaret Cameron). Ferns and English garden flowers in billowing...
Sweet slumber
Inspiration for these flowers came from a Sarah Moon print I have, with delicate pastel flowers scattered in the foreground. Shell-pink petals and the fuzzy beige of miscanthus seedheads, like a 70s watercolour. These lisianthus are so lovely, they had the transparent delicacy of sweetpeas and their unopened buds coiled like tendrils throughout the bunch. I photographed these in grey afternoon...
dark lady
Apart from the occasional smear of lipstick, I’m not really one for the colour red. Not bright brash red anyway; there is a definite allure to the darker velvet tones sometimes found in old roses. How surprised I was to stumble across this darker tone in a dahlia the other day. Mysteriously vamp and sinister, with small yellow fangs in the centre. I can’t imagine her shrinking into...
Maggie Dearest
Maggie Beer visited the Adelaide Hills last night for an event to talk about her new book Maggie’s Verjuice Cookbook (it’s beautiful, by the way).
“Really? A book about just verjuice?”, you may scoff. Let me tell you that Maggie is a woman genuinely passionate about promoting verjuice as an everyday staple in our kitchens. Her extensive research into the vinegar-like...
