Foraged Farewell Flowers

Until last week I’d not put dandelions or nettles into an arrangement. I’m very much of the opinion that funeral flowers should not oblige, but celebrate and reflect the deceased, and so for this young forester who loved trees and plants, their flowers and their uses, it was important it was wild. I was happy to include the nettles and dandelions, and bluebells, gorse, wild garlic too. The first cow parsley. Foraged and found stems and branches from his special places, with foliage cut from trees he’d grown and nurtured in the family garden. Alongside some cultivated stems, using natural mechanics, this is what we made.

Very special indeed.

- Harriet x