Appui Flower Farm

21/03/2025

Only two weeks left to share our flowers around Whanganui!!

If you want one last Appui Flowers fix before we leave, please let me know ASAP so I can sort you out ;)

Appui will live on in another town, another country, but her roots will always be in Whanganui, Aoteoroa X

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07/03/2025

Gorgeous sunrises and sunsets at this time of year = another reason to love autumn 🍁

07/03/2025

A bit of a departure from my typical soft autumn palette, but I loved putting this hand-tied together 🥰

Some of my Queen Lime Zinnias are a warm, rosy brick-red, with cool lavender in the centres.
I also had so frilly single Giant Marigolds starting to flower.
I really wanted to see if I could make this warm-cool colour clash work in a bouquet, incorporating lots of different shades of yellow and orange that I wouldn't normally pair up in an arrangement.
It's not perfect, but I'm quite pleased with the experiment. I think the slight clash gives the bouquet a really energetic, happy vibe 🫶

04/03/2025

The days are getting shorter, and the nights are growing colder... That means Chrysanthemums aren't far away!

Every year I like to make a guess whether the Mums will bloom in time for Easter. It's often a close race!

04/03/2025

I thought I'd lost this grapevine last year, but it came back swinging this season, and even has a few small bunches of grapes beginning to swell beneath the leaves.

I bought another grape and planted it at the base of the arbour at the opposite end of the potager.
One day, both arbours will be smothered with vine and fruit 🥰

04/03/2025

Shades of soft raspberry, lashings of white, and a hint of sunshine yellow.

The nice thing about planting out your garden super late is that every is fresh and just getting going in autumn 😊

A dozen seed-grown Dahlias are just about to bloom; a crop of self-sown Nigella is budding up nicely; and our first crop of branching Sunflowers is tantalizingly close!

23/02/2025

Sunshowers ☔, thunder, rainbows 🌈 , cool mornings, and leaves starting to fall... Autumn is almost here!!

A rainbow arched right over our property today, and I was suddenly reminded of how blessed we have been to be stewards of this land.

Deo gratias!

23/02/2025

Beautiful Eva kindly modelled this bouquet for me today. We had such a lovely time, I hope I can have her back to sit for me again sometime.
Didn't she do a fab job??!!

A delicate, uncomplicated, pastel take on Autumn florals today.

Roses, Dahlias, Lavender Hidcote, Aster (Michelmas Daisy), Nigella, Feverfew, and Scabiosa Fama White.