Jane’s Journal
How I worked from Naples for a month
how I work while travelling digital nomad
4 days ago
How to know when you need to begin living more intentionally
how to know when you need to start living more intentionally slow living
1 week ago
Sowing Seeds Indoors; Studio Club Private Blog
1 week ago
Big differences between growing flowers & growing dye plants: Studio Club Private Blog
2 weeks ago
The Italians do vegetables differently: Studio Club Private Blog
3 weeks ago
Travelling solo in my Fifties
travelling solo to Naples, Italy in my fifties
3 weeks ago
My travel filming kit
3 weeks ago
How to draw like Andy Warhol: Studio Club Private Blog
1 month ago
Setting intentions with the new moon
2 months ago
How to draw a holly wreath
how to draw a holly wreath for a hand made Christmas card
3 months ago
The herbarium project
inspiration vintage herbaceous on my eco printed textiles
4 months ago
How to pick sprays of autumn leaves for decoration
how to make autumn leaves last in an arrangement.
4 months ago
Making an embroidered pincushion.
handmade pincushion from plant dyed velvet and freehand machine embroidery
5 months ago
Viv Groskop on Wild swimming: Studio Club Private Podcast
Studio Club private podcast with Viv Groskop about wild swimming and how it improved her mental health
5 months ago
The Natural Choice: Why You Should Make a Herbal Balm.
Why you should make your own herbal balm
5 months ago
Kat Goldin on running a small regenerative business: Studio Club Private podcast
Kat Goldin of Gartur Stitch Farm podcast for The Studio Club
6 months ago
Dyeing a silk camisole with fresh indigo leaves
How to dye a vintage silk camisole with fresh indigo leaves using the salt rub method
6 months ago
Harvesting dyer's chamomile from the dye garden
harvesting anthemis tinctoria, dyer's chamomile in the dye garden and planning new craft kits in natural dyeing
7 months ago
How to create colour with fresh leaf indigo
how to dye silk with fresh leaf indigo
7 months ago
Hannah Nunn on Creating a Sustainable Business: Studio Club Private Podcast
Hannah Nunn designer talks about creating a sustainable business
7 months ago
Make a knitted loop scarf from your stash
free knitting pattern striped scarf
8 months ago
Botanical Dyeing Press workshop, Fodder and Farm
eco printing with foraged plants, sweet Cicely, rosebay willow herb
8 months ago
Becky O'Cole on being a family herbalist: Studio Club Private Podcast
Becky O Cole author of The Garden Apothecary in conversation about folk remedies, small business and family life
8 months ago
Love Letters to the Land; Gartur Farm
a tour of the exhibition "Love Letters to the Land", Gartur Stitch Farm, Port of Menteith
9 months ago
Hanging the Love Letters to the Land exhibition at Fodder and Farm
quilt making exhibition at Fodder and Farm, Scotland
9 months ago
Simple crusty no knead bread
making simple no knead bread
1 year ago
How to grow sweet peas from seed
How to grow sweet peas from seed in UK
1 year ago
How to transform the way you plan out your time
free four part planning course to plan your year 2023
1 year ago
Make a fuss free table setting
making a sustainable seasonal festive table setting for Christmas
1 year ago
Making a knitted coat hanger
make a striped knitted clothes hanger beginner knit
1 year ago
Collecting acorns at Loch Lomond
a walk to Loch Lomond to collect acorns for natural dyeing
1 year ago
Natural Dyes: Fig leaves
natural plant based dyeing with fig leaves ficus
1 year ago
"Birch leaves in a bottle" embroidery part two
embroidered and appliqué picture of birch leaves in a bottle by Jane Lindsey of Snapdragon Life
1 year ago
Natural Dyes: Dyeing wool with Plum bark
how to dye wool with plum bark, natural dyeing, sustainable clothes
1 year ago
"Birch leaves in a bottle" embroidery part one
mindful sewing, slow stitch embroidery made from plant dyed and vintage fabrics
1 year ago
Eco printing on paper with Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw
eco print course in Scotland eco printing with garden plants
1 year ago
Mindful sewing project - Patchwork Christmas stocking pattern
Patchwork Christmas stocking pattern
1 year ago
Visible mending on a knitted jumper
creative visible mending of jumper, wool darning, sustainable fashion
1 year ago
The joy of a sitooterie
Making an outdoor space for working during the winter sitooterie
1 year ago
A revolt against capitalism
Running an anti capitalist business in a period of degrowth
1 year ago
Can a sense of belonging save the world?
A Seasonal Way course How a sense of belonging and empowerment can connect people to the natural world
1 year ago
Dyeing wool with dahlia flowers
dyeing wool yarn with dahlia flowers, flowers for natural dyeing
1 year ago
Blackcurrant and miso ice cream
blackcurrant and miso ice cream recipe
1 year ago
On being social - Instagram changes and virtual coffee breaks
Instagram changes 2022 and the way that social media has shaped my life
1 year ago
Dyeing wool with bracken - an experiment in changing the pH
Dyeing wool with bracken to get a range of colours by altering pH and modifying with iron
1 year ago
Making time (or swapping it)
time management and creating a slower life
1 year ago
Natural Dyeing: Flag iris root part two
dyeing wool with flag iris roots historic dye
1 year ago
Miss Willmott's Ghosts
Miss Willmott's ghost book
1 year ago
Getting the Best from your Sweetpeas
tips on how to treat sweet peas to get the most flowers
1 year ago
Pickled garlic scape recipe
recipe for pickled garlic scape
1 year ago
Why we keep the edges wild . . .
leaving the edges of the garden wild we are an ark
1 year ago
Mingun Tomato Salad Recipe
Burmese Myanmar tomato salad recipe
1 year ago
Getting started with birdwatching and binoculars
beginning birdwatching
1 year ago
Broad beans and garlic scapes on toast
recipe for broad beans and garlic scapes with whipped feta
1 year ago
Late bloomers: lessons from nature
being a late bloomer in life
1 year ago
Rose and honeysuckle syrup
recipe for rose and honeysuckle syrup
1 year ago
Bracken folklore and history
History and folklore of bracken
1 year ago
Buttercups as cut flowers
Using buttercups as cut flowers
1 year ago
A new definition of wealth
a new definition of wealth Charles Eisenstein
1 year ago
Allt y Bela garden
Tour of garden at Allt y Bela
1 year ago
Natural dyeing: Sweet Cicely
Plant dying with sweet Cicely myrrhis odorata, step by step how to tutorial
1 year ago
Cow parsley freehand embroidery
learning how to do freehand machine embroidery
1 year ago
Dyeing with bloody dock (Rumex sanguineus)
1 year ago
House Martins
nature notes on house martins
1 year ago
The Hawthorn Tree - Magic and Ritual
hawthorn tree celebrations Neo paganism Beltane
1 year ago
How to Rescue Flopped Tulips
how to rescue drooping tulips, cut flower care
1 year ago
What to look for in April
1 year ago
Spring celebration lunch
spring celebration seasonal lunch rhubarb cake and kale frittata
1 year ago
Bring spring inside - lesser celandines in pots
growing celandines and spring plants in pots indoors
2 years ago
Getting back to making clothes
starting to making your own clothes, freehand machine embroidery
2 years ago
Bringing the outdoors in: February bulbs
growing iris reticulata bulbs indoors
2 years ago
The joy of snail mail and how to send more letters
sending proper letters slow mail
2 years ago
Rainy days in December
2 years ago
Foraged Wreath
2 years ago
Making preserved lemons
how to make preserved lemons recipe
2 years ago
Alignment and making things easy
how to create aligned brand values for a small business
2 years ago
What is your idea of a simple Christmas?
2 years ago
Wrapping with tiny dogwood hoops
ideas for sustainable foraged gift wrap and table decorations
2 years ago
Radicchio and hazelnut pesto
radicchio and hazelnut pesto recipe
2 years ago
Making an honesty garland
how to make foraged decoration honesty garland decorate party
2 years ago
Getting started with overdyeing
using overdyeing in plant dyes natural dyes
2 years ago
Natural dyeing: Flag Iris root on linen
using flag iris roots to create a black dye
2 years ago
Gaps and Fire Breaks - simple tips for when life is too busy
how to reduce overwhelm
2 years ago
Nant y Bedd Garden, Brecon Beacons
Garden at Nant y Bedd in Brecon Beacons
2 years ago
Dyeing with Hopi sunflower seeds (Tceqa' Qu' Si)
dyeing with hopi sunflower seeds, natural dye
2 years ago
Scampston Hall Gardens
Tour of Scampston Hall Gardens, Yorkshire, Piet Oudolf
2 years ago
Fig Leaf Ice cream
recipe for fig leaf ice cream
2 years ago
Tour of the Studio and Meadow
2 years ago
Five good things I've learned from having a chronic auto immune disease
living with a chronic illness Addisons disease
2 years ago
Nettle pasta
recipe for nettle pasta
2 years ago
Baby chicks
baby chicks in Snapdragon's garden
2 years ago
Making a Midsummer Wreath
making a grass wreath, everlasting flower wreath
2 years ago
Making calendula tea
making a calendula tea
2 years ago
Dyeing cotton yarn with nettles
How to dye cotton yarn with nettles, natural dye
2 years ago
In the garden with Xanthe Gladstone
Xanthe Gladstone has kindly shared her recipe for radish and carrot kimchi
2 years ago
Dyeing wool with nettles
Dyeing wool with nettles, natural dye
2 years ago
Growing and Drying Calendula
growing and drying calendula flowers for herbal balms
2 years ago
Forcing spring branches
How to force spring branches
3 years ago
Making a peg bag
making a linen peg back step by step
3 years ago
My first nature table
3 years ago
Making daisy balm
How to make a soothing daisy balm for bruises
3 years ago
Dyeing wool with onions
Dyeing wool with onions
3 years ago
How shrinking my business increased my income.
The minimal viable number of customers, slow business
3 years ago
Make a gilded oak wreath
gilded oak leaf and willow wreath simple make for Christmas
3 years ago
Make Sumayya Usmani's Attock Chana Rijai
Recipe Sumayya Usmani's Attock Chana Rijai
3 years ago
Bowl of Paperwhite Narcissi
planting up a bowl of bulbs
3 years ago
Choosing the most eco friendly gift wrap options
eco gift wrapping
3 years ago
The Studio Club - Roots and Wings
Snapdragon Studio Club
3 years ago
Using pressed leaves to decorate gift wrap
pressed leaves decorating natural gift wrap.
3 years ago
Overwintering Dahlias - What I do
overwintering dahlias in the garden UK
3 years ago
How to force fritillaries
How to force fritillaries
3 years ago
How to practice gratitude
simple ways to practice gratitude
3 years ago
Making an honesty wreath
how to make an everlasting wreath from honesty seed pods tutorial
3 years ago
Introducing a pay what you can option for Studio Club membership
disruptive business models
3 years ago
Solar dyeing wool
how to set up a solar dye jar to natural dye wool
3 years ago
Tansy - its history and use
Tansy history and use, natural plant dyes
3 years ago
Making healthy herbal vinegars
making herbal and floral vinegars
3 years ago
Making bath soaks
making herbal bath soaks
3 years ago
Dyeing wool with dahlias
dyeing with dahlia flowers, natural dye
3 years ago
Making calendula oil
Making calendula oil from fresh flowers
3 years ago
Getting to know Anja Dunk
Interview with cook Anja Dunk Dumplings
3 years ago
Fiona Barrows and the joy of the allotment
Interview with Fiona Barrows about her allotment
3 years ago
The Studio Meadow
making a perennial meadow in Scotland
3 years ago
Interview: The Laughing Cactus
Interview with the Laughing Cactus sustainable making
3 years ago
Visible mending with Flora Collingwood-Norris
visible mending with Flora Collingwood Norris, decorative Manding
3 years ago
Interview: creative mending with Flora Collingwood-Norris
Interview with Flora Collingwood Norris, decorative mending
3 years ago
Interview: The Bright Blooms
Interview with The Bright Blooms sustainable making
3 years ago
Everyone has a right to learn how to cook: Kaleyard Community Kitchen
Kaleyard Community Kitchen, interview with Sumayya Usmani
3 years ago
Xanthe Gladstone's radish and carrot kimchi
interview with Xanthe Gladstone, radish and carrot kimchi
3 years ago
Growing winter salad
how to grow winter salad
3 years ago
Warm rose petal and roast tomato harissa
A delicious homemade rose and roast tomato harissa recipe
3 years ago
A note on wild swimming
Kat Goldin on wild swimming in Scotland
3 years ago
Mint, Ginger and Lemon Refresher
Blow away the cobwebs with a mint, ginger, and lemon refresher
3 years ago
The history of Scotland's kelp industry
3 years ago
Where selkies swim: meet Alison Moore
Alison Moore on sea swimming in Orkney
3 years ago
Making a rose lip balm
make a rose lip balm
3 years ago
How to make cut flowers last
how to make garden flowers last in the vase. Get longer vase life from flowers
3 years ago
Plantain and nettle balm
Plantago lanceolata history and use, ribwort plantain, balm recipe
3 years ago
The good foraging code
good foraging code
3 years ago
Scotch broom as a dye plant
dying wool with scotch broom Cytisus scoparius
3 years ago
Poppies as cut flowers - how to make them last
how to arrange poppies as cut flowers
3 years ago
Foraging for wood sorrel
Foraging for wood sorrel with recipe
3 years ago
Grow your own salad leaf mix
growing salad seeds in pots
3 years ago
Make your own box loom
how to make a box loom
3 years ago
Ideas for greening when you need to stay indoors
how does being in nature help with chronic illness. Tips for chronic health problems Addisons disease
3 years ago
Making a jam jar 'terrarium' of crocus
Make your own terrarium of crocus
4 years ago
Grow your own cup of snowdrops
how to grow your own cup of snowdrops
4 years ago
The lotus weavers of Myanmar
Lotus weavers of Lake Isle, Myanmar, Burma. Tour of weaving workshop
4 years ago
Make your own felt Christmas tree
how to make a felt vintage Christmas tree decoration
4 years ago
It's not about the bread
slow down simple living and making sourdough bread
4 years ago
Making Simple Festive Table Decorations
tutorial to make simple seasonal Christmas table decorations
4 years ago
Seeing yourself
seeing yourself through other eyes and friendship
4 years ago
Make a pretty honesty heart
making a heart decoration
4 years ago
Making a dogwood wreath
making a heart wreath with dogwood prunings and dried flowers
4 years ago
Radical Self Compassion - Should we begin?
Radical compassion and loving ourselves.
4 years ago
Knit your own mug cosy
knitting kit free pattern for mug cosy
4 years ago
Simple beeswax wraps
make your own beeswax wraps instructions
4 years ago
Dyeing socks with acorns
4 years ago
Create your magical life a little bit at a time
How to plan your year and find time for the things you love.
4 years ago
Natural gift wrap - autumn leaves
4 years ago
Five ways to step back from overwhelm
5 ways to get over overwhelm
4 years ago
Making a Knitted Soap Saver
free patterns for making a soap saving mitt
4 years ago
Perfectionism and making do
how to get over perfectionism
4 years ago
Natural Gift Wrapping 1 - Pressing Leaves
making zero waste gift wrap tutorial pressed leaves
4 years ago
Making Pineapple Weed Ice Cream
making foraged pineapple weed ice cream
4 years ago
Peri-Menopausal Tea?
making clover tea for menopause and peri-menopause
4 years ago
Un-paper towels tutorial
making your own kitchen towel alternative tutorial
4 years ago
The Productive Garden part two
growing a hardy annual productive patch
4 years ago
Making produce bags for zero waste shopping
making your own produce bags for zero waste shopping
4 years ago
The Perennial Meadow 2019
perennial meadow planting
4 years ago
The productive garden
Snapdragon's garden visiting
4 years ago
How to grow wallflowers
how to grow wallflowers from seed sunset apricot
4 years ago
In search of the simple life
looking for the simple life
4 years ago
Myanmar salad recipe for flowering salad leaves.
recipe for Myanmar Burmese salad with crispy shallots flowering kale
4 years ago
How to force small spring bulbs indoors
growing flowering bulbs indoors spring snowdrops crocus
5 years ago
Indoor bulbs - the cheats version
growing hyacinth bulbs inside
5 years ago
Traditional small scale agriculture
air BnB experiences finca visit
5 years ago
Planting tulips
planting tulips in heavy soil. how to get repeat blooms from tulips.
5 years ago
Store Cupboard Lentil Soup
store cupboard lentil and tomato soup.
5 years ago
Decorating squash for Autumn and Halloween
decorating a pumpkin with pen and ink
5 years ago
Overwhelm and the fruit harvest
how to deal with overwhelm in your business - my 3 techniques for helping with small business overwhelm
5 years ago
Making Calendula Balm or Salve
making natural remedies, calendula salve and balm, calendula oil, calendula bath soak
5 years ago
Making dried apple rings with a dehydrator
how to make dried apple rings in a dehydrator
5 years ago
Drying honesty seedheads
making things, honesty wreath, do it yourself honesty wreath decoration
5 years ago
How to collect seeds from your garden
collecting seeds from flowers in your garden
5 years ago
Foraging for flowers
foraging for wild flowers and making arrangements from grass
5 years ago
The windowsill flower arrangement - white
tips for arranging flowers in bottles
5 years ago
A walk by Loch Lomond
walking loch lomond national park, Scotland
5 years ago
How to keep a tidy house (sort of)
how to have a calm house when you are a messy person
5 years ago
Sweet cicely, rhubarb and ginger compote
sweet cicely and rhubarb compote recipe with downloadable recipe card
5 years ago
Just a little posy of flowers . .
making tiny flower arrangements for bedside tables, weddings and guest bedrooms.
5 years ago
The accidental foraging expert (my tv appearance)
recipe for foraged nettle risotto
5 years ago
How to make your flowers go further
how to make a bunch of flowers last longer
5 years ago
How to pick hellebores for the house
how to cut and condition hellebores
5 years ago
How to make spring flowers last longer
how to make spring flowers last a long time in a vase
5 years ago
Peak Yellow - seasonal musings
yellow is the colour of spring.
5 years ago
Gluten free, sugar free (but still delicious) brownies
gluten and sugar free beetroot brownie recipe
5 years ago
3 ideas for getting into the flow
3 ways to increase the flow in your life
5 years ago
Goats cheese with edible flowers recipe
making floral goats cheese with edible flowers
5 years ago
Seasonal living - why I left my great job because I didn't see Spring.
why Snapdragon is all about seasonal living
5 years ago
Snakeshead fritillaries - my favourite spring meadow plant
growing a fritilaria meleagris snakehead fritillary meadow
5 years ago
Aiming for analogue - switching off my phone
phone addiction and how to stop it.
5 years ago
How to deter slugs from seedlings
Organic control of slugs in garden and poly tunnel
5 years ago
Making hyacinth napkin rings
making hyacinth napkin rings to decorate table for easter
5 years ago
The Perennial Meadow Experiment
creating a perennial meadow
5 years ago
Designer Spotlight - Hannah Nunn
hannah nunn lighting design botanical wallpaper
5 years ago
Sourdough banana bread saved us from the snow
best recipe for sourdough banana bread
6 years ago
How to store seeds
how to store seeds long term for successional planting
6 years ago
Making the cutting garden part 1
how to make a cutting garden snapdragon's garden
6 years ago
Learning about fermentation at Gartur Stitch Farm
fermented food at Gartur Farm Stirlingshire sourdough bread workshop
6 years ago
The magic of the alder tree
The alder tree, superstition, history, folklore
6 years ago
Rosemary Napkin Rings
making rosemary napkin rings as sustainable Christmas table decorations
6 years ago
Drawing a Christmas wreath
How to draw a Christmas wreath with a finaliser pen - free tutorial
6 years ago
Making dried leaf rings
Making a pressed autumn leaf ring decoration for Christmas
6 years ago
Where we are - Loch Lomond National Park
Have you ever wondered where Snapdragon is based? Read my blog post . . .
6 years ago
Collecting seeds from your garden
Collecting seeds from your garden diy seedpackets free pattern
6 years ago
The magical machair
Photos of Machair wild flowers in the Outer Hebrides
6 years ago
Broadwoodside Garden, Gifford
A tour of Broadwoodside Garden, Scotland
6 years ago
Iris chrysographes
iris chrysographes
6 years ago
Naturalising alliums.
growing alliums in meadows
6 years ago
Making Embroidered Pillowcases -
making an embroidered cacti pillowcase
6 years ago
Scannography
scannography
6 years ago
A Room of One's Own - .
making a workspace
7 years ago
Taking a lesson from Barbara Hepworth.
7 years ago
Jane's house is in 25 Beautiful Homes magazine this month!
25 beautiful homes snapdragon
8 years ago
Great Glen Charcuterie
Great Glen Charcuterie
8 years ago
Common Farm Flowers -
common farm flowers
8 years ago
The meadow gets better and better
Snapdragon Online planting a meadow
9 years ago
Snapdragon's meadow in August -
making a meadow in Scotland for Snapdragon Online
9 years ago
June in Snapdragon's Garden
Snapdragon's garden transformation
9 years ago
The new meadow - garden transformation June
planting a meadow
9 years ago
My top tip for avoiding droopy daisies.
top tips for cutting garden flowers
9 years ago
Romantic table flowers
flower arranement for wedding tables
9 years ago
Vitamin central - green herb and yoghurt soup
green vitamin soup
9 years ago
We didn't buy a house . . .
blue bell wood in Scotland
9 years ago
Garden Transformation - May
tulip fire in the garden
9 years ago
Rhubarb, carrot and ginger soup
rhubarb, carrot and ginger soup
9 years ago
The nature table windowsill.
nature tables, flower arranging on a budget, arranging garden flowers
9 years ago
My top 5 spring flowers for cutting
spring flowers cut flower tips
10 years ago
On being called lazy
18 years ago