Crafts Alive - Flowers and the Maker Collaboration - Harriet St Leger

During Crafts Alive eight Guild members are collaborating with local florists to create installations at Rodmarton Manor, reflecting the theme for this year's show, 'Flowers and the Maker'. Their displays recall the Flower Festival held at Rodmarton Manor in 1972.

Each collaboration celebrates the skills and creativity of the makers and florists.  It showcases local and regional florists who practice sustainability at every stage of the process, a shared ethos of the Gloucestershire Guild.

Harriet St Leger has collaborated with flower grower and florist Tess Wardman of Iris and Wilf who grow and sell fresh beautiful flowers, selecting varieties for their vibrancy, scent and individuality to create a natural ‘English country garden’ look.

They are passionate about growing flowers, and do their best to cause as little environmental impact as possible throughout their business practice.

With her love of colour and nature this suits Harriet’s work perfectly. They decided to use flowers and seed pods that can be dried so, strawflowers, eryngium and statice combined with grasses. These come in both bright and paler colours and are beautiful sculptural shapes. Harriet has tried to echo Tess’s displays in her brooches and earrings. 

Find more about Tess Wardman here and Harriet St Leger here.

Crafts Alive is at Rodmarton Manor, Cirencester from 10-14 September 2025