21/07/2026
Resilience & Røry
For this design I asked Deborah the flower farmer to cut the most resilient ingredients from her field. The crop is keeping her on her toes with the sunshine spurring the flowers through their cycles quicker than in previous years. These are her top picks for holding up in the heat: thistle, daisy, dill, achillea, echinacea, oregano and dahlia. And standing in the field I had to add some of that moody red orach, seed pods just developing, and dancing in the sun. I have been listening to 1 ½ albums by (Restoration & Bloodletting), which to me beautifully illustrate resilience. She sings, screams and speaks with honesty, vulnerability and pure anger about her experiences of addiction, depression and inter-generational trauma. It is raw and poetic and she expresses in a way I can recognise the feeling of fighting your way through your own mind to make it into the world outside.
What does resilience look like to you lately?
Curiosity blooms.
Gorgeous, wildlife-friendly ingredients as ever: