Can you tell me more about the importance of working with the seasons?
Our ethos with our business is seasonal — “once it’s out of stock, it’s out of stock.” We can only grow what we can grow, and once it’s gone it’s gone. It’s quite a shock to people in a world of “Now”.
We’re so disconnected until we start working with the seasons. My work with flowers is so seasonal. There are shifts, and it’s not until you realise this, that you realise the seasons could be the reason we’re often so out of sync. I always used to wonder why I completely shut down in winter. I have my hands in the soil during Spring planting, then i’m harvesting through Summer and Autumn. Come Winter I just completely shut down. I go inwards. I’ve realised I am totally connected with the seasons and how important they are.
What does creating with your hands mean to you?
It comes back to energy again. Anything I do with my hands — especially with the products I make — somebody will be taking the energy of that finished product. It has to remain pure, potent and beautiful. A beautiful energy is really important.
I love seeing how women are shifting more to creating and doing with their hands, something we’ve done for generations.
I feel like you’ve answered my final question in a multitude of ways! But I’ll ask it anyway; what inspires you each day?
Nature, it really does. And the other beautiful inspiring souls who are doing the same kind of thing as me.
You know Instagram, it has its pros and its cons. Its pros are that you get so inspired by people across the world. To be able to follow people from across the world and see what they’re doing is just amazing.
The seasons inspire me too, they teach me to listen — that it’s OK if I don’t want to work through winter, or be on Instagram, or just want to shut down. It’s OK, it’s what the plants are doing; they’re hibernating! The energy is sinking down into the earth. Whilst in spring you really bloom open again, and revive, and carry on. It’s very inspiring.