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Borager. One who forages for botanical elements and uses them to create. Totally seasonal. 1:1, workshops, retreats, gift bouquets, sympathy flowers.

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I’m very late, but here’s Septembers gatherings. Not too much collected. Some from home and some from Norway where it’s wild and beautiful. My top treasure is the magnolia seed pod. I’ve never seen one before, the colour, the form…..it’s amazing.
1. Rose root from Norway, it really smells like roses.
2. Magnolia seed pod.
3. Tactile stone from Norway.
4. Spent French bean pod.
September feels like a long time ago!
#mixedmedia #naturalgatherings #naturestreasures #magnolia #borager by @erdabotanicals

My second week @holmenlofoten. Like the first it was full of delicious food from the master forager @wildfooding and the master of spices @david_de_silva. All the food was perfectly paired with amazing cocktails by @mhjorthh, I swear she’s an alchemist. Amazing spoon work from @leejohnphillips. Everything else was handled by the fantastic team who work the kitchen and the front of house. Thank you. Lofoten provides the theatre and is thrilling and is different every day. What a place. Holmen is a very special, magical place run by a family from the heart and is full of inspiration and creativity. by @erdabotanicals

The magical place that is @holmenlofoten. This is the first week. Full of delicious and incredibly inventive food from @mattorlando_esse. Lots of walking, gathering and creating wonderful botanical worlds. Thank you to the guests who embraced it all and in some cases surprised themselves. Thank you to @leejohnphillips @mhjorthh @henriettesophia1 for the laughs. Huge thanks to @holmenlofoten and all who ride in her, you are the best team. Week two to follow soon. Xxx by @erdabotanicals

My August gatherings created into what looks a bit like a dream catcher! I love the sweet chestnut leaves and how they catch the light. I threaded them all onto the honeysuckle vine and initially wanted it to look like washing hanging on the line. The more I threaded on the more it started to twist into a circular shape. I went with it and threaded all my gatherings on. I wasn’t sure how to photograph it. I tried different things trying to balance it, then I decided to hang it. And voila! the Dream Catcher emerged.
#naturesart #naturestreasure #mixedmedia #dreamcatcher #sweetchestnut by @erdabotanicals

August gatherings. It looks more like autumn but then August is a bit of a cross over month. The dry weather has made the trees shed their leaves earlier for survival. I fell in love with the sweet chestnut leaves, I do every year. The brambles looked a bit more lush when I picked them. There are pops of red everywhere with the rose hips and rowan berries. The seasons are shifting.
1. The flatlay
2. The leaf that didn’t loose its colour
3. The sweet chestnut
4. The red leaf
5. The plane tree seed ball I picked whilst in Shrewsbury
#naturaltreasure #autumnal #waysofseeing #popsofcolour #gatherings by @erdabotanicals

July’s gatherings made into The Scorpion Butterfly Boat.
If I’m honest it was a bit of a fiddle. The butterflies were so fragile and kept falling off. It took me a while to get going, I’m not used to that. I guess it’s quite good to have a stumbling block every now and then. You have to work through it, all part of the process. I like the scorpion tail. The feathers are the sails, the bark the hull, the fruits the cargo and the jay feather the captain. Anyway, here it is, think of it what you will. I still love that jay feather 🩵
#gatherings #waysofseeing #butterflies #feathers #naturestreasure by @erdabotanicals

My gatherings in July. It’s been a hot month and I watched the trees on the Crag slowly start to gasp. We are lucky, we have had some rain too but it’s never enough. The butterflies love the sun, they need it to heat up their flight muscles so they can fly and feed. July is a time that the fruits start to form. The sun ripens the tomatoes. It’s been a month of woodland walks with Wilma to keep her cool. Personally I’ve loved the heat but where I live it’s always a little cooler and we often get a welcome breeze from Morecambe Bay.
What’s my treasured gathering this month? The little Jay wing that’s electric blue.
#monthlygatherings #naturaltreasure #butterflies #hotsummer #woodlandwalks

1. July flat lay
2. Leafcutter bees little nests
3. The Jay feather and this months treasure
4. Red Admiral and Small Tortoiseshell
5. Buzzard and magpie feather
6. Cob nuts eaten by squirrels
7. Gorse seed pod
8. Big mushroom that dried out and left its spores everywhere
9. Fruits of the forest
10. The dry earth by @erdabotanicals

Junes gatherings turned into a meadow. All the grasses and wild flowers finished off with a pheasant feather and the amazing elephant hawk moth. It has a feeling of abundance. I like the pink of the moth against the yellow of the ladies bedstraw. Nature has the best colour palette. #details #naturescolours #gatherings #botanicals #waysofseeing by @erdabotanicals

Junes gatherings. The month when grasses come into their own. A time when everything grows and blooms. Wild flowers galore. All the insects are busy. First pickings appear suddenly and then carry on giving. I’m picking sweet peas, french beans, peas and broad beans. I have to say nothing gives me more pleasure. June is lush.

1. The flatlay of June gatherings
2. Elephant hawk month, my favourite find for June, and a pink shell from Portugal
3. Downy pheasant feather and agrimony.
4. Pineapple weed, it really smells of pineapple. Lady’s bedstraw, smells gorgeous. Mallow.
5. Grasses and a little bit of wild thyme.

#gathered #waysofseeing #treasures #beautifulnature #naturaltreasure by @erdabotanicals

The creation out of my May gatherings. First thoughts, it’s a bit dark! I try to find a backdrop that shows everything off. Thank goodness for the buttercup 💛 If you zoom in you’ll see the dried mushroom, the forget me not petals and the magpie feather. There’s something peaceful about these still lives. This one reminds me of home, could be the lump of limestone. Anyway, here’s May xx #stillife #borager #waysofseeing #gathered #naturaltreasure by @erdabotanicals

May gatherings. The most beautiful month. Full of clouds of cow parsley, fresh leaves and wild flowers. We had a little heatwave too and rain, even hailstones. Everything grew!
By the time I put this together a lot of things have gone over or not dried very well. So here’s what I collected and what survived!

1. The flatlay.
2. Downy pheasant feathers. I think it had it!
3. Buttercups and lichen.
4. Maple seeds or helicopters.
5. Magpie feather. They were very busy with their chicks. They mate for life.
6. A dead spider emerging from what looked like a cocoon.
7. A dried mushroom, forget me not petals and the protective shield around a new leaf.
8. A weird fungus!

#gatherings #naturestreasure #monthofmay #waysofseeing #boraging by @erdabotanicals

Just sitting on the stone bench outside my backdoor with a glass of chilled white wine after watering the garden. Enjoying the peace and the wine and the smell of freshly watered warm earth. Xxx #mygarden #warmearth #sittingquietly by @erdabotanicals