Garden People: Bex Partridge - floral artist and author, Botanical Tales

My guest today is Bex Partridge, the floral artist and gardener Botanical Tales based in Devon, England. Bex creates sustainable designs, displays and installations using dried flowers, also known as everlastings.  Her work celebrates nature and the shifts of the seasons, drawing attention to flowers in each stage of their existence.  Her ethereal displays and designs create a sense of wonder in the observer, and bespeak certain magic.  Learning from her – whether through her workshops, books, or Patreon community – will change the way you see the garden.  Her most recent book, Flowers Forever, is available this month in the UK, and at the end of June in the USA. Please see the links below for order'/preorder information.

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Bex Partridge

Botanical Tales

Bex’s most recent book “Flowers Forever: Sustainable dried flowers, the artists way,” available early June in the UK and June 28 in the USA.

Also see: Everlastings: How to Grow, Harvest and Create with Dried Flowers

Biodynamic growing UK and USA

Biodynamic preparations

Charles Dowding no dig, No till from Love ‘n Fresh Flowers

Digging / double digging

Wormery

Egg shell fertilizer

Oudolf Field - Hauser and Wirth

P L A N T L I S T

Tulipa ssp.

Oxeye daisies Leucanthemum vulgare

Ranunculus

Meadow Buttercup Ranunculus acris

Forget-me-nots Myosotis ssp.

Strawflowers Xerochrysum bracteatum

Helichrysum ssp.

Statice Limonium sinuatum

Dahlias Dahlia pinnata

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