The Leif Collective Blog
Articles, Reviews, Hints and Tips
At Leif, we offer a range of specialised services tailored to bring your dream garden to life. Whether you need expert advice through our consultation service, a comprehensive garden design, or a detailed planting plan, our team is equipped to meet your every gardening need.
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New this week.. Natural Dried Flowers
Enjoy our dried flower pick ‘n’ mix – build your own bouquet full of beautiful varied natural colours, shape and texture. From well known poppy heads and nigella to the more unusual tallow berry. Great for that cottagecore vibe.
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Joyful Summer Flowers
The most beautiful thing about selling fresh seasonal flowers is that no two weeks – indeed, no two arrangements – will be the same. This week the shop is filled with such joy invoking summer colours.. and the scent! People are finding our little cubby hole just by following the beautiful smell. Perfect in their…
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Leif Organic Flowers – Now Open!!
We are very pleased to launch our new shop! Situated in The Old Pottery, tucked away in a beautiful old room with stained glass windows within Dedham Arts & Craft Centre.
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Cedric Morris
Above my bed is a large fine art print of Sir Cedric Morris’s “Several Inventions”, a rather mundane title for an exuberant painting of mainly bearded irises. The blooms are lined in a row: blue, purple, pink and white with the rich green fields of Dedham Vale for their backdrop. Morris is equally well known…
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The Birth (and Future) of Naturalistic Plant Design
Naturalistic plant design conjures the image of an undulating flower-scape interspersed with waving grasses and architectural seed heads. Best seen in high summer or autumn as the palette turns to hues of crimson, gold and bronze.
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Gardens to Visit: Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
I fell in love with the gardens of Sissinghurst half a lifetime ago. I was captivated by the borders, bowled over by the profusion of colour and form, enraptured by the romance of the place.
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