childhood garden | Charlotte Noar

@Butterfliesinthegreenhouse - 'my grandparents old garden'

What is a garden? For me it is made up of memories, people a sense of place - as well as beautiful plants of course. I often feel that...

Growing a new garden from an old one

In 2019 I was facing saying goodbye to a place I dearly loved - the mill house that had been my family home for 40 years. It was almost...

Vintage stoneware

I love vintage stoneware jars, and they have a sentimental connection for me to the place where I grew up. When I was saying goodbye to...

More than just a mug

When I had the idea to use my floral art as designs on mugs, it was more than just a physical product I had in mind. Those who know me...

Forget me not charity mugs

The name of 'Forget me not' could not be more apt for the flower of the Alzheimer's Society. Sufferers may forget, but we never forget...

Garden tea with Lavender and Forget me nots

It's not often we find a way to immortalise a memory in something tangible. Flowers are so transient and short-lived, but when they...

Wishing on a Dandelion

Dandelions (Taraxacum officinale) – are well known as the bane of a well tended garden, but the more I look into these yellow flowered...

The Secret Garden - a testament to the healing power of gardens.

If ever there was a book about the healing power of gardens and the love they can evoke, then the Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson...

Leaving a garden you love

Wrapped up in our feelings about leaving the garden might be the circumstances in which we have to leave it.