Musings

Seasonal stories and notable happenings from the team behind Ochre Botanical Studios. Thank you for joining us here! We really love September. It’s been such an exciting month filled with lovely garden moments, precious weddings and beautiful events. I wanted to begin this month’s newsletter by sharing a special event and trip. As part of […]

Seasonal stories and notable happenings from the team behind Ochre Botanical Studios. Thank you for joining us here! Here we are, in the last days of August. After celebrating Lughnasadh at the beginning of the month, we are now deep in harvest time. The hedgerows are brimming with tasty snacks, the annuals are setting seed,

Seasonal stories and notable happenings from the team behind Ochre Botanical Studios. Thank you for joining us here! It has felt difficult to know what to write this month. Usually, these musings are filled with the small joys we’ve noticed in the garden, the flowers we’ve been admiring, weddings, or the changing of the seasons,

Seasonal stories and notable happenings from the team behind Ochre Botanical Studios. Thank you for joining us here! June, beautiful, manic, wonderful, bustling June! We have just passed the midsummer solstice, the days are long and expansive, and it’s just as well because we’ve been filling them to the brim with all manner of flowery

Seasonal stories and notable happenings from the team behind Ochre Botanical Studios. Thank you for joining us here! For the coming weeks and hopefully months you’ll find us happily face-deep in ambrosial handfuls of delicious sweet peas. And so this month our musings have been given over, completely and utterly, to those very flowers. A

Seasonal stories and notable happenings from the team behind Ochre Botanical Studios. Thank you for joining us here! The flowers may have had a sleepier start to the year owing to the weather, but our April has been anything but! We have had numerous weddings from wee, romantic elopements to larger-scale, floral-filled, installations. There have

Seasonal stories and notable happenings from the team behind Ochre Botanical Studios. Thank you for joining us here! We’ve been spending some time reflecting on our favourite things about spring and feeling grateful for moments that bring us comfort, small glimmers of joy and calm. For me, focusing on what we can do, what we can control and noticing

Seasonal stories and notable happenings from the team behind Ochre Botanical Studios. Thank you for joining us here! As we approach the end of the shortest month, various harbingers of spring have happily poked their heads above the ground: swathes of snowdrops, peppered with cowslip and primroses, and just today the very first daffodil has flowered

Seasonal stories and notable happenings from the team behind Ochre Botanical Studios. Thank you for joining us here! And so we find ourselves on the precipice of another flowery year at Ochre Botanical Studios… January tends to be a relatively slow time for weddings and events here in Scotland. What with the cold and lack

Seasonal stories and notable happenings from the team behind Ochre Botanical Studios. Thank you for joining us here! As we sit here leaning into the duskier evening hours of the shortest day of the year, it’s a perfect time to reflect on the year gone by and to pause for a candlelit second before heading