Personal Brand Photography
Elder & Wild's Cutting Garden

Becky, founder, primary grower, and florist at Elder & Wild, creates beautiful sustainable floral arrangements from her inspiring urban cutting garden in Nottinghamshire.

We first connected online a few months ago when Becky asked me if I photograph cutting gardens as she wanted to showcase the cutting garden side of her business. 

Marred by the unusually wet weather, gardens are going-over particularly early this season, so we agreed to link up the very next day for a brief chat and hopefully to create a few initial photographs before the flowers faded altogether.

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Becky's cutting garden is delightful and as I approached it from the lower side of the garden nearest to the house, the beds scaled above my head, providing a sense of being completely enveloped by blooms. Becky mentioned that the best time to photograph her garden was in the summertime when the beds will be positively brimming.

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What a delight to discover more about Elder & Wild's story, immerse in the gloriously dense cutting garden, breath in specifically the sweet scent of 'Lady Emma Hamilton', a glorious orange rose, now retired by David Austin, to meet Becky, and to create a few pilot images.​​​