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For everyone who voted in my stories about the color of Dahlias I got at #traderjoes “pink” was right, although I could have taken them all! I was finally able to shoot them last night, the light was beautiful but the mosquitoes were rampant. Anyway here’s one that made it to the final cut. See a pullback in my stories.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
— Alfred Stieglitz
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Can I tell you a secret? I've become *totally* obsessed with garden roses.
Like I just can't stop thinking: I've been missing out on these for my whole life?!
I want to bury my face in them all day . . . maybe take a break for a few sips of champagne, bc they make me feel fancy like that🥂
Please, please tell me your favorite rose varieties, so I can add more👇🏼😬
We're in Z4 so it certainly limits our options, but I am going to dedicate more space in the high tunnel to roses to see if I can squeeze some more zone outa them😅
I have zero idea if this will work, but I simply must try!
For example, this is David Austin Wollerton Old Hall, which is technically rated for Z5. Crossing my fingers this beaut makes it, as I fear I can no longer live without it🤣
Photo edits: PBF Preset ‘Heirloom Garden’
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Raising my glass to all the awesome dads out there!
Happy Father's Day
Dudes like pink, right😉?
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A piece from last summer that I love. Based on Shirley Jackson’s masterpiece, We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Artist statement below:
“Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.”
⁃ Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in The Castle.
“Blackwood” - Third in my Shirley series - though I’m tempted to reshoot the first two since I have grown so much since starting it. I waited a year to do this. I waited patiently for the blackberries to grow again in the yard. I snipped each stalk, pricked each thumb, said hello to many bumblebees, and ate quite a few berries during the making of this. There is, quite literally, a lot of my blood in this piece.
Creating this work felt like weaving a spell that Merricat would be proud of. This book means a lot to me as does all of Shirley Jackson’s work. The way she writes speaks to my soul in a way that is hard to articulate. She knows every secret magic, every ghost in the walls.
I feel a kinship with her books, I try to do what she did with my own work, making something that is still but somehow alive, something quietly vicious, beautiful, and unsuspecting. Something that makes you look twice and not see the same thing each time. I hope that Shirley would be proud of this piece. I sure am ❤️
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Prints available in my shop. Link in bio.
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“It’s spring, you’re young, you’re lovely, you have a right to be happy. Come back into the world.”
— Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
I have been trying my hardest lately to balance everything in order to take time to enjoy the spring season blossoming around me.
Modern life is not conducive to actually living. How can I take the time to walk near a brook, listen to birdsong, pick wildflowers, and paint with my daughter outside when there is so much to be done?
There is always laundry in the basket. Dishes in the sink. Clients to call and products to shoot. A family to feed. A whole other job to work 40 hours per week. The time I find to actually create my art is a tiny sliver in the pie chart of my life.
I’ve found enjoyment and relaxation, are also a tiny sliver of that circle. I don’t want life to pass me by. I don’t want to have spent my life and look back, only to think of endless amounts of work.
So in this season of life, I’m saying “no” more than I say yes. Not overextending. Getting offline more regularly. Putting up some personal boundaries that stand where I used to have an open door. A door that revolved night and day, with new things I shouldn’t have said yes to.
I’m letting thistles grow around my rose gardens like a gentle gate. A prickled warning to anyone who may try to steal away the flowers therein instead of coming to water them.
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Let me know in the comments if you want a free guide for this arrangement (photos of each ingredient, exact varieties, sources, including vase, backdrop, etc.)👇🏼
The last one was quite popular, so if there's enough interest for this one, I'll make another one🌸!
This arrangement was a few days old, as it was for the guests at Hippler Hill Retreat to enjoy. There were a few things I would have fixed/changed, but I had a plane to catch, so I snapped a few pics and called it good.
I know it's difficult to take the time to photograph your work, but I believe it's *always* worth it. Not only can you share it, but you also can learn a lot about what you'd do differently by seeing it through the camera lens.
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Loving lately
1. Collecting all the bach buttons
2. Overwintered larkspur
3. Cheerful rudbeckia
4. Boop! Reese, always
5. Roses
6. Pollinators
7. Motherwort
8. Black Scabiosa
9. Overwintered nigella
10. Magical bugs that change colors
What are you loving lately?
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I had to pick these flowers from my garden early this morning as June has dialled up the heat here. Roses are continuing to flower across the garden but only a few Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena) remain and not long before I’ll see the last of the Sweet Peas.
I’ve included the wild Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea) and Wild Carrots (Daucus carota) which love the hot weather. Two other native Mediterranean plants which I love in the garden are the Blue throatwort - although it’s purple 💜 - (Trachelium caeruleum) and the amazing Badassi 😉(Lotus dorycnium formerly Dorycnium pentaphyllum).The latter just grows and grows although I rarely water it (maybe once a month in the summer).
Also included are Hibiscus, Cornflowers, Scabiosa atropurpurea ‘Burgundy beau’ and ‘ Summer fruits’ xx
The last of the bulbs and corms from our sale have *finally* left the building earlier this week. It's been snowing here, so I kind of felt like we were Santa's elves packing up the remaining orders❄️🤣 It makes my heart happy they are going to happy homes, and honestly, everyone was so gracious and understanding with the backordered items (flower people are the kindest people).
Now to get our hands in the dirt . . . err snow . . . to plant all of our backordered beauties, like La Belle Epoque here.
We had a helluva time with backordered items this fall, did you?!
Sometimes, you just gotta roll with the punches and pray to the tulip and peony gods that the ground doesn't freeze solid. Fall on a flower farm is intense, but it's especially intense when you're working in the elements🥶 But I dono, sometimes when things are crazy intense, it really makes me feel alive, ya know?
Or am I just crazy? . . . maybe, maybe I am 🤷🏼♀️😜
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Proteas know secrets in their DNA.
80 million years in the soil of this earth. Captured in fossils, but thriving today. They lived when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Protea are one of the oldest flowering plant families known to us in the world.
They have seen civilizations rise and fall. Ancient dreams and bygone histories locked in petals and thick, time-hardened stalks. Named in 1735 for Proteus, son of Poseidon. A shape changing god who embodies the liquidity and mutability of water. A god who can tell the future. From his name also comes the word “protean” - meaning capable of assuming many forms. Over 1500 species exist of this mystical bloom. Shape changing, indeed.
They look Iike the foliage of some alien kingdom on another planet. Strange and prehistoric. When I think of them, I am reverent.
Protea can survive in some of the toughest conditions available. Fernlike, wispy, and crystalline in appearance, proteoid root systems twist deep into the ground, chemically modifying the soil in order to flourish when planted in nutrient poor areas. They can survive wildfires, dormant buds re-emerging after the heat of the blaze is gone. Protea can thrive in almost any type of climate or weather.
Their tough and enduring nature is why they have lasted millions of years. It is so humbling to me to be able to buy a flower at the store, that also existed so long ago. Creatures who have been extinct so long that all we are left with is their bones, saw this flower. I wonder if they thought it was as special as I do.
Prints of “Prehistoric” are available now in my shop. Link in bio
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“Happy Mother’s Day who everyone that has fulfilled a loving role to anyone when they needed it the most.” cwpoet
To celebrate Mother’s Day here’s a little gift for everyone: grab this from my stories to use as phone wallpaper 🌷🌿💗
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🌸Greeting card sale going on in my online shop (link in bio)
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January is very much a “paperwork” month for us. While the break is necessary, we can’t help but miss getting our hands on some blooms. Especially when the flower markets are bursting with the most gorgeous ones😭
My kinda shopping spree😉, how about you?
Matt: Are you ordering more plants?
Me: No, I'm ordering more goodness to plant back into the world🤩🤣
My mind's eye of the checkout cart every time I order seeds, tubers, bulbs, or plants😬 #sheinthegarden
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#MyMothersFavouriteBooks
I was tagged by the lovely bookish_ian who has recently lost his mother Wendy, to share a stack of books that my Mum loves. For every stack posted, he will donate $1 to the Garvan Institue of Medical Research in honour of Wendy
These are books or authors that I know my Mum loves or that are inextricably linked with her in my mind
💫Jane Eyre ~ we both share a love of this book and I remember several childhood Sundays when we watched the 1943 black and white film with Orson Welles
💫The Count of Monte Cristo ~ was my bedtime book for MONTHS which she doggedly preserved with because she loved this adventure story too
💫Josephine Tey ~ The Daughter of Time is one of her favourite books and she recently started a reread of it. The story of Richard III also reminds me of Mum as we visited Leicester together and his grave in Leicester Cathedral
💫Susan Hill ~ I saw The Woman in Black at the theatre with her when I must have been about ten and I was absolutely terrified
💫Agatha Christie ~ The theme tunes of David Suchet’s Hercule Poirot and Joan Hickson’s Miss Marple will forever remind me of both of my parents. They still rewatch both series now
💫Elizabeth Gaskell ~ Her particular favourite is North and South, but we both went to see Gaskell’s Manchester home together one hot June day
I’m so sorry for your loss Ian and thank you for encouraging me to think about how grateful I am to my Mum for my love of books. If I’ve tagged you or not, please do join in with this beautiful bookish challenge💫
Some more plant babies from today 🌿🌱🌹🌷🌼
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When friends take some of the most beautiful photos of your flowers. Love this one so much from winsome_floral ✨
Sol perfeito e sai uma excelente fotografia, com aquele pormenor todo que vos habituo, um prato marcador elegante super bonito, aquele guardanapo cheio de personalidade é uma ementa, que para além de informar também ela decora, e torna tudo ainda mais bonito !
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Uns individuais, daqueles de piscar o olho para estes dias felizes, um copo daqueles intemporais, e flores bem delicadas e bonitas !
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For Mom 💕
I really wanted to do something special for my mom’s memorial service…
I couldn’t have been happier with how these arrangements turned out 💕
It was something personal and near to my heart - but also extremely therapeutic and I felt like it captured and expressed all the emotions I’m going through…I hope others were able to see the love in these arrangements…
There was no one like my mom - she touched so many peoples lives…
I will miss her every day…
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Wonky stems and the cherry tomatoes get me every time, HBU?
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