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I discovered Angus & Celeste at Life Instyle and was gob smacked by their gorgeous vases and hanging planters. I’m not usually into porcelain objects or vases, but these really caught my attention. They are artistic and timeless with unique botanical illustrations that have a distinctly Australian feel. I also love the choice of plants

My partner and I took a road trip to Sydney (from Melbourne) via the NSW south coast a few weeks ago which took us right past two of our regional NSW stockists. I was excited to visit The Tree House Connection in Ulladulla as I’d met the owners Emily and Rosie at Life Instyle and

My list of favourite artists is growing and I am really excited to have discovered the work of Sydney based Janet Laurence. She has an impressive list of exhibitions behind her including a fascinating installation at the 2010 Sydney Biennale ‘Waiting, A Medicinal Garden for Ailing Plants’ which is featured in many of the pictures

We’ve just jumped in and joined Instagram and I have to say I’m a little bit addicted! Now I have a great excuse to take photos of pretty flower pots, woollen tea cosies and kittens while I’m out and about. Instagram is a free iphone app that allows you to filter images into cool styles. If

Some more wonderful publicity has come our way, this time we’re featured on page 113 of the latest Country Home Ideas magazine. Exciting times for Sow ‘n Sow!  

I discovered Lord Butler via Elk at Life Instyle – they had decorated their stand with striking floral arrangements which really caught my eye. After drooling over their beautiful new clothing and leather goods, I asked one of the lovely Elk ladies about the installations and she gave me Lord Butler’s flyer. Lord Butler is an eco friendly

Our Gifts of Seeds are on page 30 of the latest ‘The Outdoor Room’ magazine! I have to say, this is a really beautiful mag – it’s full of gorgeous photography, styling and dreamy gardens. Very refreshing in the world of gardening magazines. Check out page 30!!  

Gorgeous hand stamped plant labels made out of re-purposed spoons by Alister and Jane of Kabwares. Alister is a tool maker by trade and when he was retrenched Kabwares was created with KAB standing for Keeping Alister Busy. Aren’t they sweet!

Pretty little forget-me-not flowers We went to Kyneton on the weekend to see some open gardens which were a part of the Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival. Corinella Country House is about 10 mins from the centre of town and had a most magical garden filled with daffodils and bursting with Forget-me-nots! They also had the

Super cute creatures for your desk! These little ‘Domsai’ are designed and produced by Matteo Cibic Studio in Nove Italy. Each has its own personality with little cactus inside; I want them all.

‘Slim Jim’ table by by Roland Graf for Fredericia Furniture Source: Daily Tonic  

Since being back in Melbourne we have continued working at a million miles per hour with Life Instyle which started just 2 days after we arrived home. It was wonderful being there in the beautiful old Royal Exhibition Building and we met lots of wonderful people including a lot of new stockists and the very

We had a wonderful weekend at Regional Flavours. After months of work designing and installing the pallet gardens and hanging installations, we were able to see and hear the public admiring our creations. The response was incredibly overwhelming… just about everyone who walked past the pallet gardens stopped to have a look and the comments

Here’s a few photos of the completed edible pallet gardens, on-site at South Bank in the lead up to Regional Flavours.

As part of our creative theming for South Bank’s Regional Flavours event, Sow ‘n Sow created hanging installations for the beautiful bougainvillea Arbour. Colourful, edible planters made out of hessian hang in 4 different sections of the Arbour alongside hanging herbs.

For the past few months team Sow ‘n Sow has been busy designing and delivering creative theming elements for South Bank’s signature food and sustainability event, Regional Flavours, which celebrates all things regional. Our brief was to design and implement several eye catching installations which would enhance the experience of visitors to South Bank and

Some more of Paula Hayes amazing work. These are serious, professional terrariums! The glass vases are amazing. Photographers: Eva Heyd, Sherry Griffin

I have discovered another incredibly inspiring artist who is right up my alley.. stylish, modern objects of plant based genius. The only problem is that Paula Hayes does so many cool things that I don’t know where to start, so I have decided to save some of her other work for blog posts to come.

This great street art comes from Unurth, a very cool resource. I’ve picked some of the pieces which incorporate nature, but there are all kinds over on the Unurth website.

Some dreamy inspiration to ease us into the weekend. This amazing installation is called ‘Falling Garden’ by Gerda Steiner & Jorg Lenzlinger in the San Staë church on the Canale Grande, 50th Biennial of Venice, 2003. Wouldn’t it be a treat to be lying on that bed?

I had a lovely time yesterday at the North Melbourne Market with my tiny little stall featuring terrariums, seed bombs and Gifts of Seeds. The experimental marigold seed bombs were given away to a handful of lucky guerilla-gardeners-to-be, I’m looking forward to hearing how they go. Thanks to everyone who came down and had a chat!

Last week was filled with garden inspirations, especially because the weather was incredible over the long weekend. On Friday I visited the Metlink Edible Garden in City Square which was a part of Melbourne’s Food and Wine Festival. The edible gardens were set up by the Digger’s Club (which I’m a proud member of!) who created a

I am very excited to share some insight into the other things I’ve been working on as part of the Sow ‘n Sow product range. Whilst the Gifts of Seeds are by no means done and dusted (three new ones will be available in just over a week!) I always had plans to develop other

I am pretty stoked to have caught Joost Greenhouse in Sydney over the weekend. The modular, recyclable construction is made out of an innovative steel framing system where the steel is printed and cut on-site, reducing waste and minimising transport emissions. Straw bales are used for insulation, the floor is made out of car tyres and

I’ve spotted a few sunflowers around town lately and they are just so bright and happy and beautiful. The pictures at the top are of sunflowers at a house in Northcote and the ‘Look at the spirals’ sunflower was on the corner of Smith and Gertrude St, under the big billboard. I wonder who wrote

These dreamy photos are the work of the incredible fashion and commercial art photographer Rus Anson. Born in Barcelona, Rus (short for Rosanna) studied art in San Francisco. Her photographs are often inspired by imagination and daydreams. Those vegetables look so beautiful! Please Rus, won’t you photograph my products?! I offer seed, lots of pretty

I just stumbled across these amazing La Fille du Consul jewellery pieces. They are created by the lovely Parisien Delphine Roche de Montgrand.  “I make small “sculptures to wear”, “3D trompe l’oeil”. My work plays with the spectator’s sight who wonder if it is old or current, real or false, if it is eaten or

This year I’ve spent a lot of time collecting pictures which inspire me in the development of products for Sow ‘n Sow. With the new year fast approaching us and hopefully many more inspirations yet to come, I thought it might be nice to share a snippet of the pictures i’ve been hoarding on my

With christmas fast approaching it is indeed time to get presents organised! Our Gift of Seeds make lovely little stocking fillers or send them to loved ones around the world as a christmas card and gift in one. We also now have a ‘Children’s Garden Gift Set’ available on hardtofind. A best seller at the

Sow ‘n Sow is excited to introduce a new variety to our Gift of Seeds collection. ‘Charming Chilli’ is now available! It can be purchased in our online store and will be with most stockists soon.  I had a lovely time at the North Melbourne Market yesterday. I was very lucky to be positioned beside the

We’ve just completed a mammoth custom order which has kept us very busy. ‘Us’ because I’ve had some wonderful helpers including Tossie who stayed up till 2am with me on a Saturday night!, Caja who glued the most basil packets in the most perfect way, sticker fingers packaging expert Mike and Bish who put up

Mel Balkan is my very talented hair stylist and is now stocking Sow ‘n Sow’s Gifts of Seeds! I’ve been seeing Mel ever since moving to Melbourne. I heard about her through my friend Jules who used to work at The Black Cat on Brunswick St. Mel’s amazing studio was just behind the Black Cat so

Finally back to reality after a long break in a campervan in Tasmania. Here are some of the inspirations found along the way. A windowsill at Battery Point, Hobart. A store at Hobart’s Salamanca markets selling cut trinkets with plants Beautiful poppies at Port Arthur.

Great planter boxes at Ceres new restaurant ‘Merri’. A basil sprout! Nice planter tags from Ceres Sunflower seedlings Our organic basil and sunflower seeds are doing well – the sunflowers are growing really fast! I’ll have to transplant them into the ground soon. I found some great raised garden beds at Ceres the other day

I’d love to be in London at the moment because the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall is covered in replica Sunflower seeds for an exhibition by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The seeds are intricately hand crafted and there are 100 million of them! The funny thing is that it was supposed to be the kind of

Had a lovely weekend in the country out around the Otways and found some furry, creature-looking ferns and things in the rainforest, they’re super funky. Photography by Victoria.

It’s taken me a long time to get my head around building websites but I think I’ve finally done it.Having explored all the various online tools and straining my mind back to university days where I did a subject on the topic, I can now with confidence say that I have something up, and it’s

I have started a gardening book collection and definitely need to add these lovely titles. Nice seedling trays and GIANT WATERLILIES! Excellent.. photos courtesy of Papa, taken at Kew Gardens in London. Can’t believe we didn’t go to Kew Gardens when we were there. Thanks Dad xx 

Sow ‘n Sow proudly fulfilled its first custom order last week, Golden Wattle seeds for Sustainable Built Environments (SBE) a consultancy specialising in green buildings. Having just re-branded, SBE were holding a birthday party/ brand launch celebration and invited me to produce 200 seed packets to give out at the event. Golden wattle seeds were

Restaurant pretties – lavender creates a delightful wall piece in the bathrooms and old olive oil tins serve as clever plant pots in the courtyard – both at Helenic Republic, East Brunswick, taken last weekend. 

I’m inspired by design from all over the world – much of which is discovered through the world of blogging (which I only really discovered earlier this year). My posts have been few and far between lately so I thought I should start posting some of the things I come across which are very ‘Sow ‘n

The beautiful photos by my wonderful friend Julia.  Featuring Amy, Caja and Josie, Melbourne city and surrounds. 

‘Hiro’ as he’s known to locals is a Melbourne Based artist who I met on Monday. Born in Yokohama Japan, Twoone moved to Australia when he was 18 and quickly became a prominent part of the local street art scene. The artworks above are a small selection of some new and old pieces… beautiful lines,

The divine contemporary jewellery of Alidra Alic. ‘The jewellery pieces are statements of art and are worn by those who dare’. Thanks to Catkin and Teasel where I stumbled upon this incredible artist. 

An apartment building in Frankfurt, Germany Cacti garden Tropical with matching curtain. Thanks Maddie

photo credit: Miss Carolina Robinson x

baths aren’t so bad grass taking over our house sunshine in the courtyard 

These are just some of the prints from the very talented ladies at the boutique screen printing studio Ink & Spindle. I’ve been keeping an eye on these ladies through their blogging and they’ve been a great inspiration. Ink & Spindle design and produce their own range of ethical and sustainable textiles. Tegan Rose and