Johnny has been busy pruning roses this week and saved me a generous bucket of hips - those of Rosa ‘Desdemona’ are like plump, rosy little apples, again with that slight smokiness to the colour

In Saxon England, January was known as ‘wulfmonath’ (wolf month). At this coldest time of the year hungry packs of wolves would leave the forests in search of food.

The first arrangement of the year - light and tentative with fine branches and vines and ice-white cyclamen.

A silvery, seasonal arrangement inspired by a midwinter visit to Chelsea Physic Garden. Featuring muted foliage, sculptural winter skeletons, Majorcan hellebores and a sprinkling of snowdrops.

Foraged botanical treasure in a Japanese tea-bowl featuring intricate bramble stems with the desiccated, rusty berries still clinging to thorny branches.

Taking inspiration specifically from Monet’s garden at Giverny, I choose to use a palette of muted greens and drifting soft pastels interspersed by flaming pops of red from the ornamental quince.

A sprawling, textural hand-tied from the garden as winter turns to spring tied with embroidered silk ribbon.

A delicate bouquet for Valentine’s - a clutch of tiny stems with an oversized swathe of silk taffeta ribbon in palest blue.

Black (or almost-black) flowers can be challenging because they can look like dark holes in an arrangement, especially in dim light.

An arrangement of fresh leaves and flowers combined with dried umbels and skeletal stems from the midwinter garden in a speckle-glazed Korean bowl.