Attending a Flower Pressing Workshop with JamJar at Thyme last month was such a treat! The workshop started with Amy explaining how to select and prepare flowers for pressing throughout the year. Then she demoed how to place our flowers into the press with care, together with sharing lots of hints and tips.
Amy, India and Scarlet from the JamJar team had collected a wonderful selection of flowers from the Thyme meadows and gardens, which they’d arranged down the centre of the table.… Read more
The Cutting Garden at Thyme in the Cotswolds is also a must-visit if you’re planning on seeing ‘The Nature of Thyme’ exhibition by JamJar Flowers, which I featured on Flowerona last week. When I was staying overnight at the venue last month, I set my alarm to get up at 6am so that I could capture their flowers in the beautiful morning light.
A little stroll from the main buildings, the Kitchen Gardens which include the Cutting Garden are located adjacent to the Water Meadows.… Read more
The Nature of Thyme, a pressed botanicals exhibition by JamJar Flowers has recently opened at Thyme, Southrop Manor Estate in Gloucestershire. And last week I was invited on a press trip to take a look around.
Flowers from the ancient water meadows at Thyme have been exquisitely pressed and mounted by the JamJar team. They include buttercups, aquilegia, bluebells, herb robert and many more. Scroll down for lots of photos of the beautiful designs. … Read more
British Flowers Week 2021, a campaign run by New Covent Garden Market, is returning for its ninth year from tomorrow Monday 14th until Sunday 20th June. And this week, I had the pleasure of being commissioned by The Garden Museum in London to photograph the five stunning floral installations on display there.
Cyrill Tronchet, Hazel Gardiner, Simon Lycett, Tattie Rose and JamJar Flowers all created their designs using British flowers, together with environmentally sustainable methods and no floral foam. The theme for this year’s exhibition is ‘Healing’.… Read more
Constance Spry & The Fashion for Flowers is the name of a new exhibition which opened this week at the Garden Museum in London. Guest curated by floral designer and writer Shane Connolly, this new exhibition explores Spry’s exceptional life, achievements and legacy, with exclusive access to her archive at the RHS Lindley Library.
Spry’s popularity has seen a huge resurgence in recent years as a new generation of floral designers rediscovers her ground-breaking approach to the art of flowers: seasonal, natural, yet unconfined by tradition and rules.… Read more
