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When I work in my studio I feel really connected Impress your guests this festive season
to the farm and my family. Both my brothers, my
sister and my dad all work on the farm with Gus
so being their working on site with them kind of with your own
makes me feel like I am part of it. There is always

a lot of movement Tractors and trailers of hay
going in and out, the milk tanker picking up the Grazing Table
milk, moving the cows over the road on horse-
back and the consistent run of visitors coming
and going it’s a pretty interesting place. Shopping list and photo courtesy of Mel Sharkey

Gus and I have also built this really beautiful
relationship too! He has this real love for flowers
that I never knew he had, as he has gotten a little

bit older now and can’t do as much of the farm
work, he seems happy to spend a bit more time
in the studio with me.
He loves to see what I bring home from the
flower markets. He likes to know what bride I
have week to week and where they are getting
married. He loves when I use vibrantly colourful
flowers he likes to have his input we sometimes
agree to differ.

My favourite days of the week are market days!

seeing the abundance of flowers at the markets
also dropping the bridal flowers off to my brides. Shopping List
I feel like being a florist is such a special thing.
It’s not often you can meet with a person on the 200gm mild danish OR hungarian
happiest most exciting day of their life. salami
200gm Hot supresso salami
It’s something that gives me such an incredible 2 Cabonossi Sticks
buzz. I think It would have to be my favourite
part of being a florist, I am always so nervous 2 large carrots
before dropping off the bridal bouquets I put a 1 large cucumber

huge amount of love and energy into creating 2 punnets cherry Tomatoes
them I just hope with everything I have my bride 1 red capsicum
1 small bag mixed lettuce leaves
loves the bouquets as much as I do I always love
working on jobs where there is an emphasis on cheese of your cchoice.
full open blooms such as garden roses Hydran- i use a Blue vien, mersey valley vin-
gea and Singular specimens of the most incredi- tage, brie, camenbert and tasty.
bly special blooms such as trails of stephanotis or
phalaenopsis orchids. Biscuits of your choice
Chocolates of choice. - i used
wrapped twirls, cherry ripes and
Caroline Miller sprinkled MnMa

Flowers On The Mill Get creative when you place each
ingredient...
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