Sometimes I’m recipe-testing or flexing, or making something at home, and I want an arrangement to be a quick 5 minute affair as was this case with this hastily thrown-together jar.

Sometimes you start with a leaf. I’ve generally been using a lot of geranium foliage this year, of different varieties, because they turn great colours when they are stressed. Harsh but true!

Many of you longer-term readers will know that my feelings for dahlias are either confused or extremely specific, which is to say that there are only a few varieties I’m into and year by year our collection has been whittled down to just a few.

Roll up roll up, it’s party time at the circus and that calls for lots of flowers. Giffords unsurprisingly are very into their adornment. There are potted plants at the steps of the wagons, flickering lights and garlands and flags.

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…