A warm welcome to a place where I share my love of photography, gardens, interiors, flower arranging, cooking, entertaining and blogging, as well as the beauty I find in the world around me.
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Last week I decided that I would divide and repot the Auriculas. The ongoing care for these amazing plants is, quite frankly, laborious! They have a reputation for being difficult to grow, reluctant to flower, and they simply conk out for no reason. Auriculas are demanding rather than difficult because they need alpine conditions and…
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Diana Watson knows her way around flowers. It is almost as if she has climbed inside them. She paints her flowers as though she were Thumbelina, looking deeply into the blooms, taking note of the detail, marks and imperfections of each petal. As flowers unfurl, they reach a point of perfection and then slowly begin to…
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