TOBACCO PLANT, MUGWORT, APPLE
AUGUST
Apple (Malus)
Bee blossom (Oenothera lindheimeri ‘Whirling butterflies’)
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta ‘Sherry Brandy’)
Dahlia (Dahlia ‘Cafe au Lait’)
Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)
Pampas (Cortaderia sellonana 'Pampas Plume Pink')
Plume poppy (Macleaya cordata)
Rose (Rosa ‘Lykkefund’)
Sweet scabious (Scabiosa atropurpurea ‘Black Knight’ & ‘Snowmaiden’)
Tobacco plant (Nicotiana alata ‘Grandiflora’ & Nicotiana langsdorffii 'Bronze Queen’)
Wild carrot (Daucus carota)
Large, waisted vase designed by Aesme Studio
Kenzan
Small scrunch of chicken wire
We often refer to our style of arranging as ‘garden-inspired’ and the gardens that we like the most tend to have naturalistic planting schemes, achieving a romantic, dishevelled quality as a result. Carefully, intelligently planted and maintained, they are also allowed to go a little wild around the edges, for ‘Mother Nature’ to show her face and encroach in some places, rather than being completely tamed. 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! The mugwort is a weed that crops up here and there but we find her both beautiful and useful. The blades of pampas grass are added in a fan formation which adds to the textural, whiskery effect. Apples, always!