Chris Campbell from Wild at Heart Flowers in Brisbane is a floral artist with a huge respect for her craft, nature and her role. Was it always flowers… I truly wish I could say I was lured into floristry by the loving garden hand of a grandmother or relative, and that the veins of horticulture ran…
Have snips will travel – wedding flowers in Tuscany
Travelling to Italy to do wedding flowers sounds somewhat romantic and rather exciting. It was…. SUCH. A. THRILL! ….but…! It wouldn’t be an adventure without a flat tyre, getting lost on foot in the narrow one-way lands of the Florence hills and watching in nervous delight as all our flowers bobbed up and down in a little…
Hygge with plants and flowers
“Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey and enjoy every idle hour.” John Boswell Thanks to the Danish, we have a way and a word to be at one with Winter and embrace all things cosy. Hygge is more a feeling than a meaning. It’s that…
Workshop it; the best flower workshops and masterclasses
A few new additions to the list of masterclasses and workshops below, including a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party for the school holidays. For all the details, keep scrolling past all those stunning images from last year’s Masterclass by The Flower Dispensary at The Estate Trentham captured by Katie Grant Photography. There’s loads of options to drench…
Top 10 floral Instagram accounts
God bless Instagram for bringing us the creations of floral artists from all over the world. At any given moment, we can be transported to flower fields in Cornwall, Washington State, or the west of Ireland. Or we can be in the workshops and studios of the best florists around, from Belgium to Australia, and…
Prunella – botanical styling from another time
Considered by Belle Magazine to be amongst the most innovative floral designers in Australia, Prunella’s work is utterly spellbinding. I’ll never forget the day I saw Prunella’s work. It was just on their website, I couldn’t even smell the flowers, but that was enough. My jaw hit the floor, I was mesmerised. Their botanical arrangements…
PARIS AND FLOWERS- another gorgeous coffee table book
Those two words can bring some people to their knees and now there is a beautiful new book to combine the them. Paris in Bloom delivers on every level of what you have hoped for…. Naturally it comes with a travel warning, of the best kind: This book may result in impulsive travel behaviour. With…
Profile – Margaret Ransfield, Clover Flowers
Margie, owner and head stylist at Clover Flowers in Melbourne has an unwavering passion for flowers. She’s been at it since she was 14 in both Australia and New Zealand, but launched her first Clover store for Mothers Day a couple of years ago in the heart of Melbourne’s Inner West. It was love at…
The magic of a flower crown
Although a fresh flower crown is not an accessory that lasts very long, its appeal has lasted centuries across the worlds of fashion, art and special occasions generally. It saw a revival a few years ago and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing. Although something with such deep roots can hardly be called a…
How to kokedama
Looking like something that just rolled out of a beautiful mossy garden, the kokedama, (translation: moss ball), is a superb alternative to a potted plant. Considered the poor mans bonsai in Japan, the kokedama is a nod to the Japanese aesthetic wabi sabi – another very cool name – which is all about the imperfections…
For the love of dahlias
There’s something magical about a field full of flowers, especially one with almost every colour on the colour wheel! For one of the most spectacular sites a dahlia lover could dream of, you have to get yourself to Winchelsea, Victoria in the Autumn. It may have to go onto your calendar for next year –…