Welcome to the vibrant world of Sow ‘n Sow! Explore our blog as we delve into the art and joy of gardening, sustainable living and the beauty of nurturing seeds to bloom. Discover insightful tips and inspiring stories that celebrate the journey towards a greener, more vibrant world.
The lovely Andrea Lind from @heartofblooms_ on instagram has been documenting her Flower Pressing journey using our Giant Flower Press. We can hardly believe how beautiful these photos are, or how she achieved such fantastic colour retention in her pressed flowers. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I think these are just perfect, and really appreciate Andrea sharing her journey with us.
Create memories and instill a joy of gardening with our new vintage inspired ‘Secret Garden’ and ‘Wildflowers’ Gifts of Seeds. A greeting card containing a mix of three easy to grow seeds, Secret Garden contains Marigold, Sunflower & Zinnia while Wildflowers contains Californian Poppy, Cosmos & Alyssum. Designed to promote a connection with nature and enjoy simple pleasures, these
Introducing the newest edition to the Flower Press family! At 30cm tall and 20cm wide, this Giant Australian made Flower Press is TWICE the size of our standard large Flower Press and three times bigger than our mini Flower Press. This is the perfect press for serious crafters and ecologists or for preserving special floral
We are so thrilled to have our Pop Up Pots back in stock, but even more excited to present our latest designs! We teamed up with Shana Danon from Emilio Frank Design to create this vibrant, colourful artwork especially for our pots. Shana’s artworks are known for their bold emotive colour and vibrant modernist style,
A long time favourite Gift of Seeds for being bright and cheerful, we decided it was time for Sunflower to get a design refresh! We are also excited to add Sunflower and Trio of Herbs to our plastic free range. These varieties no longer include a plastic plant label. The plant labels are now incorporated into the recycled kraft packaging
*Update March 2021 – All of our Gifts of Seeds are now plastic free with the exception of Love in a Mist, Hooray Zinnia & Swan River Daisy. We are still running down the old stocks of these after which they will be discontinued* Introducing our newly refreshed designs for Poppy & Sweet Pea! It
Despite a lot of change in the world at the moment, we are still open, still in stock and still shipping orders as usual from our Maleny studio. If you’d like to reach out and connect with an old friend, a family member, a colleague or a member of your community then we’d love to
In light of the bushfires, we wanted to do something a little different to give back and make a small difference. Our Gifts of Seeds are the perfect token of appreciation so we decided to use them for exactly that to make a small difference. Some of the things people are doing are momentous while
STANDARD DELIVERY WITHIN AUSTRALIA (free shipping) Order by Tuesday Dec 17 if you are in a metro area. If you are unsure please check with us, or check Australia Post’s delivery times calculator here. We are based in Maleny on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, 4552. STANDARD DELIVERY TO REMOTE LOCATIONS At this stage you
I never thought I’d see myself in a stylish magazine but when one of the feature writers, Samantha van Egmond approached me to do a piece for Country Style Magazine I couldn’t turn down the opportunity. The photographer Marnie Hawson came to our place in terribly bright & challenging conditions and requested the linens. Bonnie had
A designer, portable plant pot that pops! Pop Up Pots are something that I have had in mind for many years. It started as an idea to find a way to easily post a pot. One reason our Gifts of Seeds have done well is that they’re a gift that is so easy to post
When I started Sow ‘n Sow 9 years ago, being an eco friendly business was at the forefront of my vision. I wanted to produce products in Australia with a low carbon footprint, using recycled materials where possible. Our Gifts of Seeds are printed in Australia on 100% post consumer waste recycled card and we
For all our trade customers, we are back at Life Instyle again this year and we’ll be in the same location as last year – downstairs at stand 1334. We are super excited to be introducing some new products including something COMPLETELY FRESH and never seen before! Think gardening, think innovative & think eco. Watch
We are now 9 years into Sow ‘n Sow’s life and what an adventure it has been. I realised that there may be many new members in our community that do not know me and I wanted to introduce myself as well as explaining why and how Sow ‘n Sow came to be. First of
One of our biggest projects in 2018 was producing a whopping number of these seed packets for the Queensland Government’s Healthier Happier campaign. The custom designed Gifts of Seeds form part of a Kitchen Garden Pack which include an instructions booklet, gardening tips and tasty suggestions. We produced five seed packets for each pack including
The weather is heating up, the Christmas parties have started and the last minute mad rush of gift purchasing has begun! We have received our last delivery of Flower Presses for the year and there is still stock available but it won’t last long so be quick if you would like to secure some. For delivery in time
New for Christmas is our Australian summer inspired Gift of Seeds for wishing with a little Aussie humour, ‘Seeds ‘n Greetings’! Containing a mix of seeds to create stunning summer bouquets, with easy to grow white Cosmos, red Zinnia and fragrant Dill as a useful and beautiful filler. Australian made and designed, printed on 100% post consumer waste recycled card and hand packed in our Sunshine Coast studio. Available to
We’ll be there! We’re in a different spot this time, stand 1334. We’ve got 3 new Gifts of Seeds to show everyone plus some exciting new Flower Presses! And a few other new things. We look forward to seeing our existing stockists and meeting anyone interested in stocking our products.
Just a quick note to put light onto the incredible charity Precious Wings. Sow ‘n Sow has proudly provided our Everlasting Daisy and Forget Me Not Gift of Seeds in support of the charity since 2013, when Kerry first contacted Michelle. Precious Wings is a not-for-profit organisation who’s generosity and compassion is touching the lives of
We recently had a local photographer Elliot Swanson from Ground to Kitchen come by the studio to take some snaps for us. Here are a few of my favourites including some lovely snaps in our studio garden. It’s always lovely to collaborate with local people and we look forward to shooting more with Elliot in
Introducing Snapdragons! A classic cottage garden annual with bright colourful blooms which are great as a cut flower. We picked snapdragons because they’re easy to grow and are exactly the kind of flower we would like to give to our Mothers on Mother’s Day. Usually our packets have a brightly coloured top band with a
The year is drawing to a close and we are counting down for more than one reason this year as Michelle is expecting a new baby around Christmas! Order by this Thursday Dec 14 for delivery before Christmas with standard FREE SHIPPING Australia wide. After this date you can select ‘Express post’ at checkout for a flat rate of just
We are very excited to announce that our gorgeous new ‘Edibles’ mini collection is now available for purchase! It was certainly time for us, 7 years in, to add some more edibles to our collection. And after realising recently that one of our best sellers is our ‘Trio of Herbs’ Gift of Seeds I feel
We’re exhibiting at Life Instyle again this August in Melbourne over 4 days from August 3 – 6. Visit us at stand #1458 and register your visit at lifeinstyle.com.au/register. We’ll be launching a few new Gifts of Seeds which we’re really excited about and which are absolutely stunning thanks as always to the illustration skills of Daniella Germain.
When my green thumbed 87 year old Grandad came to visit the Sow ‘n Sow studio, along with my talented photographer cousin, I knew this was an opportunity for some lovely pics! Luckily cousin Duane was happy to oblige and took lots of beautiful shots. These demonstrate how our packets open and what you get
Welcome to our re-vamped website! Now that our blog is displaying properly again it’s time for a few catch up posts. We are very excited to now be based in Maleny on the Sunshine Coast. Our new studio is a part of a 5 acre property that used to be an avacado farm. We
We’re back at Life Instyle again this August in Melbourne! This time we are lucky to have a space downstairs at the Royal Exhibition Building, stand 1458. We are currently busy finalising our new Gift of Seed designs and I can’t wait to launch them at the show. If you’re a current stockist please pop
Sow ‘n Sow is now officially a Brisbane based business! Family and warm weather has lured me, my family and the business back home after 10 years abroad and interstate. It was a difficult decision to make, especially leaving our amazing studio at The Mill in Castlemaine and our wonderful team there. But it felt like the
It’s the 9th of Feb and finally really feels like the new year. We had such a big end to the year in 2015 with moving our studio to Castlemaine, attending Life Instyle for the first time in years, 6 new staff members, many custom design orders and more orders being shipped for Christmas than
We are now closed for holidays. We re-open on Monday the 18th of Jan. Orders placed while we are closed will be shipped on Monday Jan 18. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We ship orders from our studio in Castlemaine, 3450 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. For delivery in time for
I’m feeling quite warm and fuzzy this week. We met a lot of beautiful customers on the weekend at The Big Design Market where lovely things were said about our products. It’s great to be face to face with customers at one of the only opportunities we get each year. The organic linen label Oh Mabel
It’s sowing season and almost Christmas time which means our studio is a hive of activity as we ship lots of eco friendly greetings to grow all over Australia. We are also busy preparing for The Big Design Market and looking forward to seeing lots of customers face to face at the only market event
Proof you can grow our Australian Natives in England. I received this beautiful email last week, my favourite kind! “I was given 4 packets of seeds last year by a kind lady visiting Devon in England and this summer was successful in getting all 4 to germinate. I have since lost the Golden Wattle –
It has been a busy year so far and things just got busier. Last Thursday the 13th of August we moved our studio from Fitzroy North to Castlemaine. It was a little sad leaving the wonderful artist studios that we had been a part of for nearly 3 years, but also super exciting
We’ll be at Life Instyle in Melbourne this August, upstairs at stand 2019 (trade only). We will be launching some exciting new products at the show! If you’d like to make an appointment, email michelle@sownsow.com.au I look forward to seeing you there.
Since I moved to Castlemaine last year I have been commuting to Melbourne to the Sow ‘n Sow studio in Fitzroy North. But a fabulous space in an old wool mill in town has become available so we’re getting ready to move our operations to Castlemaine in the middle of August. We will be leaving
The lovely Lucy Amon from Melbourne’s GPO came to the Sow ‘n Sow studio on a Saturday morning to take some pics and interview me for the Melbourne Makers series. I was a bit hung over having spent the previous night out on the town (the first since having Bonnie!) so I was a little
Welcome to our new website! We decided it was time for a refresh, a modernisation and a technical upgrade of our online presence so we spent a few months tinkering away in the background before launching the new site in late April. I hope you like it! Other things keeping us busy include Mother’s day
It has been a busy few months here in the Sow ‘n Sow studio; Michelle has recently made a huge leap and moved to the countryside (- it’s beautiful, we are all very jealous) and Cat has just finished her exams! We’ve been celebrating the recent launch and success of both the Enchanted Garden and
Spring has arrived and with it our shiny new Enchanted Garden and Bug Wonderland Gift of Seeds! Designed for creative & adventurous little souls, we decided that gardens aren’t just about pretty flowers but are about all the wonderful bugs, butterflies and little habitats they create in the garden. Some of my fondest memories
We’re very excited to introduce our new Gift of Seeds display stand! We worked with the wonderful Jeremy at Prototype Laser who created & makes the stand locally in Melbourne using sustainably-sourced bamboo. The stand very cleverly packs flat and can be assembled without glue or tools. Update: March 2014 – we now also
With Autumn well on it’s way, we are incredibly pleased to announce the arrival of our newest Sow n’ Sow team member, Bonnie! Congratulations Michelle & Bish! Bonnie was born on the 6th of March, 2014, and is already the heart of the Sow n’ Sow studio – she’s a smile maker, and quite possibly
My sister Madeleine Brady came to hang out at the Sow ‘n Sow studio late last year and while there she tidied up the place and took some photos, lucky me! Maddie is an artist and works for Olsen Irwin gallery in Sydney. She manages and curates Olsen Irwin Works on Paper, Small Paintings and
Hello 2014! It’s always nice to do a bit of reflecting in January of what our previous year looked like. 2013 was an exciting year filled with achievements and growth for Sow ‘n Sow, here are a few of the highlights: Launching our Australian Natives collection Designed in collaboration with Daniella Germain (who’s stunning illustrations
These fully custom designed Gift of Seeds were created for The Australian PlantBank, a new science and research facility for the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust. Located at the Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan, PlantBank officially opened on Friday October 11 2013 and our Gifts of Seeds seeds were a part of the opening
On the very cold and grey Friday the 13th of September (what a date for a momentous occasion?), my partner Nick and I signed our lives away on a block of land in Chewton, near Castlemaine in country Victoria. For years we’ve been searching for a block where we can create our dream – building
The lovely Amy Nardi of Henry Hudson took this gorgeous photo of our Happy Birthday Sweet Pea Gift of Seeds and posted a lovely article on Sow ‘n Sow over on the Hunry Hudson blog! Such a pretty pic, I couldn’t resist sharing it here. Thanks very much Amy!
We’re just a few days in to spring and the weather here in Melbourne has already become warm and sunny. All we can think of doing is being outside, absorbing the sunshine, picking flowers and sowing lots of seeds! To celebrate the arrival of this glorious season Sow ‘n Sow is offering a selection of
