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Restoring the garden
Behind the Design, Fiona: Garden & Home Fiona Pickles 12/04/2024 Behind the Design, Fiona: Garden & Home Fiona Pickles 12/04/2024

Restoring the garden

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Embracing winter
Inspiration, Behind the Design Fiona Pickles 04/04/2024 Inspiration, Behind the Design Fiona Pickles 04/04/2024

Embracing winter

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My process, design philosophy & journey
Inspiration, Behind the Design Fiona Pickles 03/12/2021 Inspiration, Behind the Design Fiona Pickles 03/12/2021

My process, design philosophy & journey

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Every cloud
Behind the Design, Installations & Events, Inspiration Fiona Pickles 08/11/2021 Behind the Design, Installations & Events, Inspiration Fiona Pickles 08/11/2021

Every cloud

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Sustainable floristry network - foam free urn demonstration
Behind the Design, Floral Designs, Inspiration, Masterclasses Fiona Pickles 08/08/2021 Behind the Design, Floral Designs, Inspiration, Masterclasses Fiona Pickles 08/08/2021

Sustainable floristry network - foam free urn demonstration

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In & out of the garden - July
Fiona: Garden & Home, Behind the Design Fiona Pickles 07/08/2021 Fiona: Garden & Home, Behind the Design Fiona Pickles 07/08/2021

In & out of the garden - July

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Tulips
Artwork, Behind the Design, Floral Designs Fiona Pickles 13/05/2021 Artwork, Behind the Design, Floral Designs Fiona Pickles 13/05/2021

Tulips

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Behind the Design - simple foam free mechanics
Behind the Design, Floral Designs, Fiona: Garden & Home, Inspiration Fiona Pickles 11/03/2021 Behind the Design, Floral Designs, Fiona: Garden & Home, Inspiration Fiona Pickles 11/03/2021

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Behind the Design - event flowers
Artwork, Behind the Design, Floral Designs Fiona Pickles 17/02/2021 Artwork, Behind the Design, Floral Designs Fiona Pickles 17/02/2021

Behind the Design - event flowers

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Smoke without fire
Behind the Design, Floral Designs, Inspiration, Installations & Events, Fiona: Garden & Home Fiona Pickles 14/01/2021 Behind the Design, Floral Designs, Inspiration, Installations & Events, Fiona: Garden & Home Fiona Pickles 14/01/2021

Smoke without fire

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Behind the Design
Artwork, Floral Designs, Behind the Design Fiona Pickles 24/10/2020 Artwork, Floral Designs, Behind the Design Fiona Pickles 24/10/2020

Behind the Design

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Well I hope whoever has STOLEN the poppy / feather combo out of this design is feeling ashamed enough to hand it in before they leave @strawbhillhouse today 

@leigh.chappell.flowers @flowers.at.the.house @flowersonthe.edge
My current installation at @strawbhillhouse - I’ve staged it as a gallery to elevate ordinary items into works of art. There’s a great deal of nuance to the concept which I’ve elaborated on in my latest Notebook post (above) - handm
Join me this week at @strawbhillhouse at 1pm on Thursday 10th September for my live talk / demonstration in the Marquee - Working with the Wild.

Expect a bit of chat and blather while I make something from foraged and homegrown materials and some po
Next week I’m creating an installation here, in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill House and Gardens as part of their 2026 flower festival. Over thirty florists/designers/artists will also be creating their own piece of magic throughout this incred
A magical dog walk with owls, buzzards and the moon. I could hear barn owl chicks in the distance, once I located them I started filming when one of the adults landed on a post right next to me. It got a shock when it actually saw me and flew off but
Glimpses, light & shadows.
The design in the last post became an interesting subject to experiment with shapes, composition and chiaroscuro details.
Got myself in a pickle (🫣) over which image I prefer, so I just posted both 💫 
So - lighter or darker 🤷🏻‍♀️

Just something I threw together from the crispy garden. Well, I say crispy, it’s actually not too bad given that nothing gets w
Eclipse moment with the phone - the eerie feeling and the light is actually more memorable than the reality of an eclipse without the glasses 😂. I tried a plate for the reflection (in 1999 I got a great view on a car bonnet) but the plate didn&rsquo
Image commission - Lowther Castle. To celebrate the opening of the rose garden several years ago. 

Swipe through for the other images as well as some of the merch 

@lowther_castle 
@danpearsonstudio 

Flower photography
Floral artist designer 

Inc
1st August. Marking the new month with a simple bunch of Daucus carota ‘Dara’, picked from very contented, self seeded plants - growing through cobbles and taller than me. And although it feels wrong saying happy anything while the world
This week four artists visited to paint the garden and this is a little snapshot of their day here. What talent 🙌 And how lovely to see the different interpretations of the same place. Thank you all so much for coming. 
(I’m not sure everyone
While the garden explodes with pretty, pink floofiness I allowed myself a moment with my beloved browns, touchy textures and wonky shapes. I might just have to start a campaign for positive ways to describe browns - instead of the usual ‘sh*t&r

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