About Country Bunches

An enthusiastic gardener, Lizie has been supplying friends and villagers with her flowers for many years. In Autumn 2015 came the decision to create a dedicated cutting garden at her home in Toot Baldon.

Having lived in La Rochelle, France, for several years, she was inspired by the wonderfully generous, abundant bunches of flowers sold by the country traders in the old market with their wild natural look. 

Lizie combines flowers, hedgerow foliage, seedpods and grasses creating bunches, from a handful to an armful, which are a celebration of each season as it unfolds.

In the winter she makes natural wreaths from woven willow, birch and hazel, decorated with seed pods, dried flowers, berries and winter foliage.

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The quarter acre garden in Toot Baldon is a busy place at all times of the year. It's constantly evolving with new projects and experiments every season. Flowers for bunches are usually cut either in the evenings or early morning and left to condition in "The Peep".... (the bunching shed) before being made into posies and bouquets for market and orders. All are created with what is blooming in the garden and hedgerow at the time... Little to large they are all unique and the overriding theme is wild and abundant.

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At certain times of the year Lizie takes in apprentices to live on site and work alongside her. If this is of interest please get in touch. 

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