Husband and wife team Brett and Caroline from botanical design brand, Stengun Drawings, share their small business journey in this week’s My Small Business & Me podcast interview.
Working in FashionAfter having studied Fine Art at university, Caroline started working in the fashion world. And when her full-time job went down to four days a week, she decided that she wanted a hobby. So she started painting again.… Read more
Landscape Architect Marian Boswall shares her small business journey in this week’s My Small Business & Me podcast interview. In 2004, she founded Marian Boswall Landscape Architects. Their projects range from large trusts and estates open to the public, to parkland developments and smaller private gardens.
Working as a Management ConsultantAfter studying French and Italian at Oxford University, she became an interiors buyer and later a management consultant. On moving to a house in Kent with a large garden, her interest in gardening was reawakened.… Read more
My Small Business & Me and my latest podcast episodes are featured in this week’s blog post. You’ll find incredibly inspiring interviews with guests including florists and an interior landscaper.
Simply tap on the SHOW NOTES links below to listen. Alternatively head over to your favourite podcast platform, such as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify to name but a few.… Read more
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 RHS Garden for a Green Future at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. It features such a wonderful collection of beautiful purple planting! Designed by Jamie Butterworth from Form Plants, the aim of the garden is to raise awareness of the climate change crisis.
Jamie, pictured below, says: “We need to adapt to the changes that are happening in our climate rather than fight against them. This garden seeks to show how we can do that. Plant selection is key, choosing varieties that are best able to cope with our increasingly unpredictable weather.… Read more
