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Instagram post 2215343531082124111_298279376 Now well into the new year, and inspired by idea the #flowerfarmerama by @businessofflowers . Luckily it wasn’t one of my New Year resolutions to take part from day 1, though inspired by it I thought I could start at the prompt I am often asked about - why my business name. For me there is such a strong connection between growing and designing with flowers – the act of planting and nurturing slows me down and feeds my creativity, and picking is a mindful ritual which is all part of the process. There’s no beginning or end to the cycle; the seasons roll on, flowers bloom then go to seed, the earth warms and cools and the beauty continues to flow. But this is what I’ve learnt and this is what keeps me working along this path. It’s indirectly related to my business name and to me living here on our farm at the intersection of Wales, Herefordshire and Shropshire. Growing up I thought the great outback and wild landscapes around us would be exciting places to roam as a cowboy – or a jillaroo as it was Australia and not North America. And occasionally on the long interminable journeys along highways connecting the states in Australia I thought it could be equally wild and romantic being a long long-distance truck driver. And did you know back in the days of the American wild west with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid there were real women who rode alongside these fabled American cowboys who have been called the Wild Bunch Women, a story that makes me smile a lot. This I know thanks to lovely Emily from @fleuropean. These whimsical reasons for my name are not the real reason, but they are all reasons I have not changed my business name that I have considered over the last year. Late one summers day driving with family around the Llyn Peninsula we were brainstorming possible business names. At the time knowing very little, actually dare I say it – nothing about growing or working with flowers and living on a beautiful windswept farm and with all my plans and dreams we thought Wild Bunch captured the spirit of giving it my best go. 📷 @nataliejweddings
Instagram post 2211190646698295004_298279376 Thank you for all your support that enables me to do the things I love - to grow, to pick and to make beautiful things. Happy New Year and wishing you all the very best for your new year and start of our new decade in 2020. Lots of beautiful projects to look forward to in the new year, look forward to seeing you all in 2020.
Instagram post 2192825880334463344_298279376 Beautiful wreath by Camilla. Thank you Alice @flockandfind for hosting and inspiring us and Kit @kitontour for all the beautiful photos. #inspiredbynature
Instagram post 2192091667888966094_298279376 Wreath bases. The thing about living on a farm with a farmer, 9 miles from the closest small town is you learn to be self reliant, and wherever possible you learn to adapt ways of working to suit what you have. The really lovely and inspiring people who joined @flockandfind and myself for our wreath class agreed, and so we made our wreaths without moss bases that in the past I had pillaged from our woodlands, and with all natural ingredients cut from a willow garden growing at the bottom of our drive and conifers from our woods and flowers I had dried through the growing season. Thank you everyone who joined our class. Another beautiful photo 📷 @kitontour . #igrewthis #slowflowers #inspiredbynature #winterwreath
Instagram post 2191733692666004059_298279376 The evergreen season has begun. And if I ever needed reminding, when I am walking up our hill heading towards a morning searching for the perfect branches of scented green conifers, I remember why green is one of my favourite colours - scents of Christmas. Scotch pine - my favourite, larch, cedar and so many more I don’t know the names of. But I know the colours, tones and textures of green I love...beautiful pea green always has to be amongst my evergreens 🌲 I picked these and gathered many more textures fresh and dried from our farm and garden for my first class - a seasonal wreath class hosted by beautiful inspiring Alice @flockandfind. Thank you @kitontour for capturing our class and all the really lovely people who attended.
Instagram post 2186993600638725574_298279376 Embracing the arrival of December. Christmas wreath class preparations almost complete. Bundles of dried flowers and foliage from the summer garden laid out ready to pack, with stems of willow and scented conifer to cut and the alluring finishing touch of bells and lengths of velvet ribbons to prepare for our first class with @flockandfind next Tuesday.
Instagram post 2183062076092545337_298279376 I could never do without my garden roses and my favourite garden foliage - oregano. It’s promising to be a cold winter our way, and on advice from my super gardener Lynn we thought it best to pot my new oregano seedlings up, and tuck them away in the polytunnels to-over winter. My new roses - again in romantic blushes and shades of grace oranges - roses I find it hard to be bold in - will be heeled in beside the precious seedlings.
Instagram post 2181587454427709193_298279376 In anticipation of receiving my seeds for all these beauties and more. Detail of one of my favourite September bouquets by the beautiful @georgina_photo
Instagram post 2180148023326054779_298279376 Drying everything I can lay my hands on. I’ll have lots of dried ingredients (and luscious greens too) if you fancy making one like this at my wreath class with @flockandfind . Booking in my profile to join us on 3rd December #wreath #driedflowers
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