Journal

Bees in the Poppies: Letting the Garden Be Wild

This month the garden is full of opium poppies - self sown, chunky swirls of petals. Flowers from scarlet and plum to the palest lilac like the inside of a shell.  I let them have their way.

This garden isn’t just a space for growing - it’s a collaboration with the wild.

In the early mornings the garden is a frenzied hum - bees and hoverflies rolling around in the newly opened flowers.  Their preferred nectar source by miles. 

I took this little video - unedited, uncut, at 9 am on a sunny June morning. These small, quiet observations form the heartbeat of how I work. Maybe they’re part of how you work too. 

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