Seasonally curated, old English plants and flowers grown locally with love.
I grow flowers and I design with plants. I supply local florists with my old English and often rare blooms. I run the occasional workshop and I also design gardens for schools and families with the aim to impart a sense of freedom and wellbeing.
I work with the nature in my garden rather than trying to control it, and I’ve planted my garden to make a painting with flowers and plants which reach towards the light, sway in the spring and autumn wind, and glisten in the winter frost. I am part of the progression, growth and seasonality of my plants and flowers.
I care about the bees and butterflies in my garden, and the worms in my soil and the birds who eat them, so I never use chemicals. I keep bees so I grow flowers rich in nectar and pollen. I use British suppliers wherever possible and grow everything here, knowing when to sew, when to grow and how to work with the weather (and the pests who also love to pay my plants a visit).
a bit about me.
I graduated with a 1st in graphic design and began a 20 year career working for Vogue photographer Nick Knight. From there I founded my own design studio in South Kensington, with clients including Bloom & Wild, Avery Row and Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand Goop. In my spare time, I loved to garden and so on a tight budget I changed my own South London garden from a depressing space dominated by concrete to a space buzzing with growth and colour. I grew cornflowers first and I remember vividly the cornflowers self seeding down the road and growing up through cracks in the pavement. The sense of what was possible was overwhelming.
This experience sparked a desire to pursue a more authentic and meaningful life, and a diploma in Garden Design. Together with my architect husband and 3 children, I moved to a 400 year old cottage in Gloucestershire and set to work ripping out decades of overgrown and spiky shrubs and planted my favourite plants trees and flowers for colour, scent and structure for my family and friends to enjoy all year round.
In summer 2023 I replaced designing on a computer to designing with plants full time and began working with local brands and business such as FarmED, Daylesford Organic, as well as designing gardens for private and commercial clients and for schools.
