The garden is a vaguely alcoholic blur of pastels now, fuzzy and unrefined. This is her spell as an impressionist painting, broken brushstrokes of colour in quick daubs, the backdrop a shifting sea of windblown green.

June is one of the best months for creating soft and ethereal flower arrangements using all the ruffly shapes in bloom now in the garden.

The tall spire flower with the dark stem is a native weed that we enjoy in the cutting garden - it is water figwort (Scrophularia auriculata) and produces masses of tiny maroon flowers from July to September that provide nectar for butterflies, bees and wasps.

The glaze is called ‘tenmoku’ and was likely first introduced to the West from Japan by Shoji Hamada when he set up the Leach Pottery with Bernard Leach in 1920s St Ives.

I could use ‘nose-to-tail’ eating as a metaphor to describe how we think about our own produce, and how we use our garden too, and perhaps that’s because it’s a concept people are familiar with from the food world. When it comes to the plants, we look at the whole, not just the flower.

The unexpectedly entangled moments and haphazard appearances of plants is where the magic creeps in. In this arrangement I wanted to capture this feeling of high summer when the garden is at its most ravishing - and most untamed! Cont…