Bold and passionate red flowers come in myriad shades that evoke different and often contradictory emotional responses making it a colour of paradoxes.

The heart of a young sweet pea bud is a mirror of the human heart.

The vivid orange California poppy is a cousin of the bright red Flanders poppy but with some quirky differences!

Revealing the secrets of the wild orange Persian buttercup, commonly known as ranunculus flowers.

What does onion grass, with its dazzling magenta and yellow flowers, have in common with people who find themselves caught up in a life situation that doesn’t feel like a good fit?

A dahlia bud doesn’t question whether it should take the risk to unfold and bloom, it just does. Yet we tell ourselves it’s a risk to step outside our comfort zone to grow and develop as a person. Perhaps taking risks is just a state of mind?

What is it that draws us to a specific flower at a particular time in our lives?

A wander through the meanings and significance of the camellia flower in different cultures across the world.

It was the colour and exquisite beauty of this climbing tea rose, ‘Maman Cochet’, ‘that captured my heart and inspired me to paint it.

Have you ever looked inside the gently drooping bell flowers of foxgloves, delicately suspended from tall elegant spires?

Many herb flowers have been described as small and insignificant. However, delving deep into the pretty bloom of the ‘blue haze’ sage plant shows us the error of this judgement, both for flowers and our fellow humans.

Delphinium flowers can teach us much about travelling through difficult and chaotic times like we have witnessed on a global scale this year.

If you love being amongst family and friends having a good old chat and a laugh, the grape hyacinth is the flower for you!

The stunning blue of the cornflower is so unique in nature that it has a colour name of its own.

Although winter is a time of introspection and quiet when much of nature turns inward whilst preparing for renewal in spring, many flowers are at their best during this time bringing warmth and good cheer to cold grey days.

These showy flowers have an unusual strategy for spreading pollen as far and wide as possible to maximize their chance of survival.

The convolvulus flower is a wonderful metaphor for completing the cycle of giving and receiving, speaking and listening, qualities that are essential to transcend inequality and injustice.

How is the flower of the potato plant like the special people in our lives who are always there for us no matter what?

A flower mandala: Moving us towards our centre, our soul, a place of calm and inner peace.

Do you ever wonder about the ethereal glow that illuminates the heart of a geranium flower?

The wild pansies scattered through my herb garden remind me of a mischievous little leprechaun.

A modern version of the early explorers sketchbook journals. The pansy entry with calligraphic lettering.