Foraging is a great way to get outdoors and enjoy nature, plus there’s the added bonus that you might return home with a basketful of tasty, free ingredients to use in the kitchen. Here are ten easily identified and flavoursome wild plants to look...
Mother’s and Others’ Day There’s something wonderful about knowing Mother’s Day is coming up – and that soon we’ll be celebrating all our mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, godmothers and all the other mother figures we’re lucky enough to have. ...
Card Calamity We’ve all been there. You carefully choose a beautiful card. You’ve found the perfect thing for someone special, avoiding anything too cliched or samey. Only, when you sit down to write a message, your mind goes as blank as the inside...
Imagine, ten years from now, opening up your journal and a peony comes fluttering out. It brings you back, to today, and how – each time you wander past them – your arrangement brings a smile to your face. There are some moments where you want your...
It’s that time. Your flowers need a little self-care; a water refresh and some nourishing new food to give them some pep. But you’re all out of flower food, and you don’t actually know how to make flower food yourself. Oh dear. Maybe...
You know your star sign, your birth stone, you might even know your moon sign… But do you know your birth flower? They’ve been around for generations and just like birth stones there are birth flowers for each month. They’re tied to the season the...
They are frothy indulgence, like adding an extra scoop of ice-cream on to an already towering cone or using half a bottle of bubble bath on a rainy afternoon. Stocks flowers are one of our favourites for adding a pastel pop of colour to any display...
Are you ready for battle? Because gladiolis are. These towering, dramatic blooms add stature to our arrangements every summer, and it turns out, they stand tall for a reason. With a fascinating history behind each stem (that makes so much sense the...
For all its frosty walks, cosy fireplaces and hearty comfort food, I think every one of us reaches a point when we’ve just about had enough of Winter. My own seasonal epiphany came to me this morning as I tried to smash the ice on the pond for the...
