“Gardens are artworks that escape the control of their maker.”
- Abderrazzak Benchaābane.
When I first moved to Moorfield I was convinced the process of creating her, creating her gardens, would be so much more streamlined than the clunky, irratic, unplanned, beautiful chaos that was the making of Little Oak, and the making of me, as I am today. An organic gardener, an accidental writer, a qualified fashion designer turned qualified horticulturist whose passion for structure, texture and colour is found, these days, in gardens and not garments, a fashion designer who somehow became an ex-extremely stressed events manager who turned to plants to find some peace in the moments I stole back for myself from a career that always required so much of my energy and focus……..and never looked back.
I knew so much more this time around, I’d been here before, standing before a blank canvas but this time with everything Little Oak taught me, to do and not to do.
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