Lavender Fields – Insta Heaven, Sensory Hell.

Have you visited a lavender farm recently? If not, chances are, if you use Instagram, you’ll have seen at least one beautiful photo of someone standing in a field of lavender. Last summer I decided it would be fun to get some photos of me, in a lavender field, to use on this website. Yorkshire […]

The Violet Earthquake – What African Violets Can Teach Us About Blossoming

African violets are a plant that will forever remind me of my grandmother-in-law. She always had them filling her windowsills, in various stages of propagation. When she died, almost 20 years ago, the only things we wanted of Nan’s were: A little red plastic foot stool that she used to reach up into her cupboards, […]