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Flower farmer and florist Georgie Newbery of Common Farm Flowers in Somerset, south west England makes some lovely calming foliage and flower arrangements for midwinter.
I totally get that Christmas can be over-rich fare for many people, so I thought I'd make a clip about just cool, white flowers, and why they work so well in the darker days of mid winter, with some lovely wintery twigs and foliage. I hope this clip will inspire some to head out into their gardens, scissors in hand, to see if they can rustle up enough for a #30stemchallenge.
Sometimes Christmas gets too much: too much rich food, expensive gifts, just plain noise! Many people take this time to spend time on their own, having a think, and enjoying time by themselves, or just with fewer, less, not so much...
This post is for all of us - the people who prefer less, and those of us, who, like me, like the whizz bang whoop of Christmas (and the brandy butter best of all!) but who will also love it when we get a moment of calm.
Right now I am on my own wrapping presents - brown paper packaging and the same bronze Petersham ribbon I used on the posies in this clip. I am secretly a person who loves lots of time on their own - that's why I like flower farming - I work mostly on my own! Fabrizio has spent the day making a church for the little town of Bethlehem we put up in the bookshelf (see previous clip!). For the moment the house is quiet and I'm wrapping my ears round the sound of nothing and hugging it.
Bon, whatever kind of Christmas you have, I hope you have a lovely time, with space for quiet, perhaps a walk, what my mother would call a blow through. And for those of you who prefer a quiet time in this noisy time of year, I hope you might make time for a wander round your garden with a pair of snips, and then make a foliage arrangement like this one, with or without flowers.
Peace and good will to all.
The foliage used in this mix is:
brachyglottis
magnolia grandiflora
bay
rosemary
griselinia
contorted willow
xxx
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