Best of 2025
Happy New Year!
I hope you are having a wonderful, somewhat restful festive break and that there is more to come once the clock strikes midnight and a new year begins. I wanted to wish you all a very Happy New Year and to thank you for being here at The Seedling throughout 2025. I am so grateful for another year of fun, flowers, food and fashion and creating this community with you; and I am excited about a new year starting and some fresh creative energy.
We’ll be back on Sunday with our first new year dispatch - the January edition. For now, we wanted to share the top Seedling stories for 2025 in case you missed any - below are 10 of the ones you loved the most - from flowers (of course!) to interviews, travel tips, great recipes, fab reads, studio tours, fashion edits & more. It really is a mix I share here with The Seedling and it’s all about finding joy everyday. These stories are all now unlocked and so if you’re not yet a paid subscriber, this will give you an idea of the type of content we share here every week at The Seedling.
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A thousand thank you’s to everyone receiving this email, for your support this year and wishing each of you and yours a healthy & happy, exciting & energising 2026!
Field Of Dreams - Marlston Farmgirl
From in-house floral designer at the White House to Marlston 'farmgirl'. Kimberly Fleming - the visionary behind a 300-acre flower farm in the English countryside, is a force of nature, quite literally, grasping opportunities in life and with grit and gusto.
Sowing From Seed
Episode 6 of The Magic of Flowers has landed! I wanted to inspire you to sow seeds from scratch - to watch the magic unfold - the journey from a tiny dot into beautiful seasonal flowers… and to remind you that you don’t need anything fancy - no greenhouse required! Find the full episode on my YouTube channel
The Best Ever Sponge Cake Recipe
I've both cooked and devoured many sponge cakes over the years and this is my favourite recipe - it works every time. Here’s to tea and cake outside in the sunshine…
Dispatch From The Big Apple
This week we bring you everything from my whirlwind trip to New York City - from the flower market I’ve always longed to visit to the flowery fruition of a creative vision coming to life in an incredible event. Plus all the detail on the flowers, the city energy, the pit stops, the food
Mood Boarding At Home
I love the idea of a mood board - quotes, fabric swatches, old photographs, mementos from travels, foraged treasures, magazine tears and so on. I have had one of sorts over the years but am inspired to make a bigger, ever-changing mood board to keep me inspired for all aspects of work and play, in my home office and thought you might like to create or u…
Summer Book Club
I think we’re all book lovers in this Seedling community. Whether faithful to paperbacks, listening to audio in the car or on walks, or the kindle on commute or on holiday - there a few better feelings than escaping our busy lives with a good book. Even better reading with toes in the water and sun on your back while on a summer holiday…
Tales From Tresco
The Scilly Isles are just 30 miles off the coast of Cornwall and yet seem like their own little world away from the busyness of life. Tresco is the most magical place in summer - long, lingering days embracing its best season, surrounded by vast, sandy beaches and incredible sunsets. I’ve been visiting since my childhood and feel
In My Studio with Barneby Gates
In a new series, In My Studio, we peak inside the working spaces of creatives we admire to find out what inspired their studio and how it now nurtures their creativity. To kick it off, we turned to wallpaper and fabric studio, Barneby Gates to talk through their beautiful new barn studio and showroom in Wiltshire…
Winter Warmers
A warm, woolly hat is an essential for me in winter and to keep me warm while flowering in the elements (and my outdoor studio!). Here are nine of my faves right now…
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!
With Love,
Willow
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