Flower Philosophy by Potter Anna;Hobson India;

Author:Potter, Anna;Hobson, India;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group UK
Published: 2022-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Harvest Time

More than any other, autumn is the season for stocking up the storecupboard and drying out stems for the months to come. I fill every crevice of the house with hanging bunches of foliage and herbs: mugwort, limonium, hydrangea. I load jars with hedgerow jams, elderberry cordial and rosehip syrup and pile stone bowls full of treasures for wreaths: seedheads, pinecones and branches. Towards the end of the season is when the evergreens start to dominate. Where once they would have blended into the big green tapestry, they now take centre stage among the backdrop of skeletons and bones. I welcome the nostalgic scent of conifer from childhood days of playing hide and seek, the rusty brown bark hairs on the trunk entangled with my own. As a child, a conifer was planted on the day I was born. We were one, growing together. By the time I was seven it could conceal me, and was a giant at age ten. At this age I judged foliage for its ability to provide a good hide-and-seek spot, hunkering down with woodlouse and spider, my autumn friends. I’d take the dusty pine over the large beech hedge any day, a whole third of the year regarded completely useless. Now I’m quite the opposite, transient delicate foliages in coppers and rusts; sun-bleached dried-out leaves that will fall at any minute, these are my choice leaves for arrangements in autumn.

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