About

As a child, I was always surrounded by flowers. My mother is a prolific grower, and as a little one, I would marvel at dinner plate dahlias larger than my head, and create puppet shows with the funny little flower heads on snapdragons.

My own flower journey started a few years ago with a challenge to see how long I could extend the flowering season in my small, north-facing garden. Until that point it was game over by the time the lupins and roses had taken their turn by mid-June, when the garden became a weedy dust bowl.

This has quietly evolved into a passionate enquiry into our relationship with the land and the joy of regenerative practices. I am fizzing with curiosity and excitement at what I may grow next, and am constantly in awe of the array, scent, dazzling colour palette and beauty of British-grown blooms. As a floral artist and micro urban flower farmer, I am drawn to the unusual blooms, the scented ones, the stems that are hard to source or too fragile to be found at the market.

The cutting patch is small and located within the ring road of Oxford. Yet it offers generously and is testament to how we can foster reciprocity with the land that we work with to find our own ways of expressing beauty in the world.

And on most days there is really nowhere else I would rather be.

I have a background in mindfulness and nature-based practices and weave these elements into the Mindful Making workshops. Inviting focus and attention when working with fresh and dried flowers helps soothe the chatter in the mind and feeds a spring of wellness that we can draw upon at leaner times.

I am really excited to be part of a new wave of florists and flower farmers committed to offering sustainably-grown, beautiful flowers in rhythm with the seasons, and am proud to be a member of Flowers From the Farm, a collective promoting British-grown blooms.