Category: Creating with herbs
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Wreath making
Wreath making is an ancient and highly symbolic art, a way to bring seasons into our homes. A simple circle of branches has a deep and long history drawing together power, poetry, prayer and persistence. Thresholds There are many traditions associated with placing herbs to protect thresholds. For example, branches of elder were hung over…
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Herb in a Vase – May
Creative ideas crafted and shared by our local florist, Sophia Mason. This month we’re displaying: Lilac In the garden of the first house I ever owned, there lived a huge lilac tree. It wasn’t a big garden and the very mature tree, as tall and wide as the little terraced house, made it difficult to…
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Herb in a Vase – April
Creative ideas crafted and shared by our local florist, Sophia Mason. This month we’re displaying: Cornflower Wild and wonderful Once upon a time, Centaurea cyanus grew like weeds in cornfields – that’s where cornflowers get their nickname. It grew happily throughout the UK since the Iron Age, sprinkling the landscape with its soft bluey purpleness…