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Lovely dead crap

November 30, 2015November 22, 2015 ~ Wolves in London ~ 1 Comment

It's possible I've become a little bit too obsessed with dying flowers. My housework abilities are a little on the lax side (I say, with some element of understatement) so it is pretty much guaranteed that if I have flowers in my house at any point, I will spend a good fortnight with dying flowers … Continue reading Lovely dead crap

Garden moodboard: August 2014

August 1, 2014April 23, 2015 ~ Wolves in London ~ 7 Comments

Oh the joys of an English summer! July was gloriously sunny for the most part and my garden has been putting forth some of my favourite flowers as a result. If last month was a little bare, this month has surely been making up for it, with snapdragons, pink roses, white cosmos, frothy nigellas and … Continue reading Garden moodboard: August 2014

5 ideas from Hampton Court flower show

July 12, 2014 ~ Wolves in London ~ 6 Comments

Last Wednesday I spent a gorgeous sunny day wandering round Hampton Court flower show. It was an English summer personified: the drowsy song of bees in the air, the sun beating down with occasional white clouds drifting across the blue skies, endless (endless!) stalls selling Pimms and rather a lot of people dressed in striped … Continue reading 5 ideas from Hampton Court flower show

The garden in June

June 20, 2014July 6, 2014 ~ Wolves in London ~ 7 Comments

I know, I know, I've been a bit garden-tastic over the past few weeks, what with all my chat about greenhouses and sheds and so on. I am working on some more craft-related posts at the moment too, you may be relieved to hear, but I couldn't resist joining in once more this week with … Continue reading The garden in June

A love of trees

May 27, 2014May 26, 2014 ~ Wolves in London ~ 2 Comments

If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know have a bit of a penchant for photographing flowers. (For which read, my feed is stuffed full of floral photos, mostly taken on my daily wanderings round Peckham Rye Park.*) But there was another reason that my feed was 90% flowers: my crappy iPhone 3 which objected … Continue reading A love of trees

Garden moodboard: May

May 6, 2014September 8, 2014 ~ Wolves in London ~ 11 Comments

No brain power for much chat today, with a one-week-old newborn, but I did manage to pop out into the garden yesterday morning to gather some flowers for my May moodboard… (For once) I’ll just let the photos do the talking….     This marks a full year since I started taking these photos. Interesting … Continue reading Garden moodboard: May

Late summer wedding flowers

August 24, 2013 ~ Wolves in London ~ 10 Comments

Have I mentioned that I'm getting married in a few weeks? Oh yes, I have. About six gazillion times. In a classic "how hard can it really be?" moment, I decided that it would be a good idea to arrange all my own wedding flowers. Actually, I had originally planned to grow them, transport them … Continue reading Late summer wedding flowers

A photo a day: August 23rd

August 23, 2013 ~ Wolves in London ~ 3 Comments

I'm half way through a big detailed post about all my wedding flowers, which I was planning on publishing today. But sitting down just now to finish it off, I discover I've got a fuzzy Friday evening head on, so the words don't feel like coming out. Instead, here is a little sneak peek of … Continue reading A photo a day: August 23rd

Garden moodboard: August

August 6, 2013 ~ Wolves in London ~ 3 Comments

I'm six days late with my garden moodboard for August, though looking at the photo you could be forgiven for thinking I was month late and this was the bounty for September. What's happened to all my flowers? These are literally the only few I could find. (And the rose was one of only two … Continue reading Garden moodboard: August

A photo a day: August 6th

August 6, 2013August 7, 2013 ~ Wolves in London ~ Leave a comment

A jug of flowers today; including some beautiful cosmos and sweet peas. Staying at our wedding venue-to-be in Shropshire at the weekend, we found a jug like this in every apartment. They had been picked from the cutting garden. More on Shropshire tomorrow... Joining in with the August Break.

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Hello hello, lovely to see you, thanks for stopping by. I'm Sabrina: writer, plant lover and seller of houseplant boxes. This blog is where you can shop for a plant box, find advice with my plant care guides, or even take a deep dive into my archives and find general life musings from the past eight years!

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After the excitement of having a story chosen for an anthology and another shortlisted in a writing competition at the start of the year, I decided to get some new bio photos taken professionally. I did a shoot with the absolutely lovely @camillagreenwellphotography and am soooo happy with the results! These are a few of my faves. Camilla was so incredibly lovely, and also deeply patient of the fact I am the most awkward person ever in front of a camera, ha ha. (What do people DO with their arms?!)
It’s finally that time of year again…
Rainy Saturday morning. Off to exercise class and then back home to curl up on the sofa and read a book. (Almost tempted to light a fire, the weather is so fucking bleak for April 1st…)
Grief is a complicated thing. It is 15 years today since my first son died — ten months old, asleep in his cot at home when I was out at work. Everything has changed in the years since and in some ways I can hardly imagine how that other life of mine would have played out if he hadn’t died. At other times, I remember the phone call I got from the Homerton as I left work on that day, and the pain is just as deep as it was in the moment. It’s been written many times, I know, but grief doesn’t ever really lessen, you just learn to grow around it, to grow alongside it. You learn to adapt as the rest of the world continues on and people forget, and you become one of the only memory keepers. Which itself is another complicated thing.

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