Everyone loves a just-plucked bunch of seasonal flowers – and these creatives have made beautiful blooms their way of life
For Alison Hayes a pastel coloured wooden workshop at the bottom of her garden is a treasure trove of treats for any would-be florist.
‘I started by selling small bunches of cornflowers, then started to do little posies and as people got to know about me, they asked me to do other things’, explains Alison. All the flowers used in Alison’s workshops are grown in her garden, with the posy workshop being her favourite. ‘I don’t use chemicals, I compost, I save water, I invite creatures in by having insect houses’, she says.
For seven years she honed her gardening skills through a tenancy tending the walled garden at Thirsk Hall. When that ended in 2020 a friend suggested she farm her own flowers in their field. She moved the whole thing up to Kilburn and started work on her 1.5 acre patch, redesigning the field from hay so it flowers progressively to make for productive picking.
For her, the best part of running workshops has to be seeing the faces of participants when they see the field; ‘It’s such an expanse - and also their expression when they see a flower or something they love.’ ‘It’s lovely to see what people make, it reflects them as a person – part of you comes out in the creation’, she adds.
Sarah’s workshops can be about creating designs that looks like Dutch masters with their own story to tell and many feature a photographic tuition element too.
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