“Garden Gathered” features floral designer Helen Leighton’s sustainable flower farming at Riverdale Farm in Western Australia. This limited edition book includes stunning visuals of floral arrangements, gardening insights, and 20 unique ensembles. Helen shares her expertise in sustainable design, showcasing her year-round cutting garden, romantic aesthetics, and connection to rural life.
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The Flower Press is changing a little…
Five years on, and over 100 articles later… we are on an exciting new path. One that ‘stems’ from the original model but you could say we are ‘branching out’ a little…
Getting lost to find flowers, in the Irish countryside
Atop a hill, on the outskirts of a small village in the west of Ireland…. is a thriving flower farm and floral design studio. Hanako Flower Farm and Studio has made a success of flower farming in a tricky climate for 27 years.
The Farmers Daughter
Bonnie King balances life in the city as a florist with flower farming in the country. After studying Visual Arts she finally found flowers to be the perfect expression for her creativity.
Growing flowers for art sake
Based in Somerset, in the UK, Fiona Haser Bizony is an artist who has fully embraced flowers as her medium, flowers she grows herself at Electric Daisy Flower Farm.
THE GOOD LIFE – Farming and designing home grown blooms
What do you get when you cross landscape design, farming and floral design on 100 acres adjoining a river….. One of the most beautiful flower farms around, and not one but two floral artists. Helen Leighton is a landscape designer and floral designer using flowers grown sustainably and chemical free at Riverdale Farm – where…
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