I challenge you to make a purely twig

For that gap between the deciduous leaves falling and the lush evergreens of Christmas my challenge for you this weekend is go to foraging twigs and seed heads in your gardens and growing spaces. What can you find which will make a twiggery pokery arrangement? Look for interesting shapes, textures, colours, lichen, buds, seeds - all make interest in a spray of twigs in a good heavy based container. Have fun! And remember that if you share pictures of what you make on your instagram and tag me, @commonfarmflowers, I'll share some of them on my stories.
Every time any of us encourage our friends and neighbours outside to find material for cutting and arranging the ripple effect of fresh air and exercise and close looking at nature and the calming effect of working with fine motor skills makes the world a better place.
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[@melaniehudson5190]

Wonderful way to start my day. Fab video as ever. I’m so pleased you didn’t put the wizzy-wizzy on. I prefer to watch you make everything in real time, even if it took two hours and you didn’t have the time to talk, I’d watch it. It’s meditative. Have a lovely day.

[@theflowerfarmer]

lol - might be so meditative you'd increase your sleep hours xxx

[@skmccuen]

Gathering fall and winter garden and woods remnants and arranging them in old crockery has long been one of my favorite things. And they last and last. Queen Anne's Lace, ground pine, poplar seed heads, grasses, rudbeckia seed heads, Indian Blanket seedheads, cones of all sizes and shapes, thistles, vines, hawthorn, willow, on and on. There is so much beauty and peace in the "spent" garden, grassland and woodland. Thank you for the adventure.

[@theflowerfarmer]

it's a lovely thing to do isn't it - thank you for coming along x

[@allonesame6467]

Brilliant! and Congrats on you awards! Bravo!! // My mother-in-law, may she rest in peace, was a master flower arranger and floral judge in Ohio and Indiana. She was renown for her dried autumnal arrangements she wildcrafted. Well it was the '70's and back to the land was a thing. Very popular at flower shows. Love what you share!

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@rosemarybushea3517]

Once again you've created an artistic arrangement and have inspired me to go see what I can scavenge from my back yard. You have such a keen eye for creating beauty out of twigs. I so love how you appreciate the natural environment. ❤

[@theflowerfarmer]

thankyou x

[@5apph1b1u3]

Love your natural/local focus and your sincere personality and how generous you are with your knowledge and talent. Your clients are lucky to have you!

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@elodieleaf]

Can I advice everyone to first listen to the video as it is like listening to a long poem❤Beautiful video as always, beautiful wording, beautiful uplifting 🙏🏼💗

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@hollyadkins4729]

I love how you find Beauty in everything you see! Your adjectives bring it all alive ❤

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@janhenson293]

I feel once a flower arranger you immediately look at nature and the countryside very very differently. The colours, the textures we are so blessed in this country when you think of some countries only have rubble and dust. No green, no wild animals and no bird song. And then the icing on the cake we can sit and watch your videos. Ain't we lucky😊

[@janhenson293]

I'm so pleased to see the jug used at last I've noticed on the shelves behind you for ages, it's good to see it close up. Jan uk

[@theflowerfarmer]

glad you like the jug xxx

[@PeonyLadyKim]

Hello Georgie and Teacake from cold Alaska. I just discovered your channel and I am completely smitten ! I do not think you are weird at all talking to the trees as I do the same thing. My husband and I operate a peony farm here in Fairbanks, Alaska. We only grow peonies but I do cut foliage from my chokecherry tree and lilac bushes. Both foliage hold up well in water and the seed pods on the lilac look tropical to me. I am a self-taught florist and am truly enjoying learning new things from you. Hearing you speak as you go about your demonstration is so wonderful (healing almost).

[@theflowerfarmer]

ah thank you Kim and lovely that you enjoy the channel x

[@samanthaw1419]

Lovely, have to say you inspire me to look at dead things with a new eye. Everyday on my walk, I'm eyeing up everything for cutting 😂

[@theflowerfarmer]

excellent news x

[@samanthaw1419]

I've made two and two winter wreaths 😂I've been doing wreaths for years, It's so relaxing, I've been putting lots of extras in now though, I cut some broom last week and it's fabulous in a wreath.They are such a great gift too, I made my mum one, she was delighted. x@@theflowerfarmer

[@bluetreedog1205]

Your no loony its only polite to say hello to trees 😊 beautiful i was please to see the bouquet in situ. Your an inspiration and you are always à Joy to watch😊

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you xxx

[@laurie-flowersbyljp5802]

The twiggery pokery wizard does it again! Lovely arrangement.

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@BlessingsfromNorthIdaho]

Amazing. We had early thanksgiving because of family schedules, if I had seen this before Saturday I would have made one for the dining room. So I will put it on my 2024 November calendar to make next year. Thank you for the wonderful idea. That name, twiggery pokery, is magnificent, lol. I have to remember it and use it as often as I can fit it into conversation, lol. Also, completely off topic, those whimsical candlesticks on the mantle are begging me to duplicate them if I can. They go perfectly with twiggery pokery I think.😎. Have a great week! TeresaSue

[@theflowerfarmer]

you're so welcome and happy thanksgiving to you x

[@davidblauw5941]

You’ve given me new eyes this fall from Holland, MI USA!

[@theflowerfarmer]

hurrah x

[@AcornHillHomestead]

Your arrangements are lovely. We have gorgeous bright red Winterberry in the surrounding local woods. Im going out in our own woods to pick twigs. We have tons of lichen and twigs with tiny old looking almost black pine cones at fall from our trees. Top it all off with saved dried Allium seed pods and it should be great. 😊.

[@theflowerfarmer]

go for it x

[@kathrynmettelka7216]

After following you for over a year, I had learned enough to grow plants with colorful stems for winter interest in the garden and for winter arrangements. I can do this challenge because I now have yellow and also red twig dogwoods. Planning is everything.

[@theflowerfarmer]

brilliant! x

[@godsbuckets]

Watching this makes me feel even I could do something pretty.

[@theflowerfarmer]

everyone can - have a go x

[@1Thedairy]

It’s beautiful Georgie. You can appreciate it better against the wall. When you said you can’t control the design it reminded me of water colour as it has a mind of its own. I’m now inspired to take some secateurs and look around me when I’m walking my dog this morning but I have quite a lot of inspiration in my garden, but nor Dock!

[@theflowerfarmer]

go for it x

[@ambethk77]

I've started saying, "Oh, Teacake!" to my baby when he fusses. 😂 🩵

[@theflowerfarmer]

lol xxx

[@julieknowles7063]

I'm with you about the trees. We live opposite a cemetery and the holly trees are covered in berries that I know the birds will polish off around Christmas. The poplars ash and oaks all have buds. That makes me smile as it's a portent of things to come. I love it.

[@theflowerfarmer]

how fantastic x

[@rollandjoeseph]

That looks very nice and seasonal, ill have a look around to create my own..hmm, maybe some misc leaves around the base for added interest would work, very fun 😉👌

[@theflowerfarmer]

enjoy xxx

[@SheilaSoane]

Wonderful- inspiring !

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@ambethk77]

My husband overheard you talking about the trees and asked, "Is Georgie the real life Tom Bombadil?! 😂😂

[@theflowerfarmer]

laughing out loud! x

[@ahermitslife3684]

You are brilliant! How do you sleep at night with all the genius ideas in your head?!

[@theflowerfarmer]

sometimes I'm like a donkey caught between bales of hay when my head's too full x

[@sharongiles6326]

Lovely

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@MyFocusVaries]

How lovely. A twiggery hopefully not pokery 😉

[@theflowerfarmer]

lol x

[@sofiesteenberger6806]

I JUST got in from a lovely day digging around in the garden, and one of the things I did was make a twig and leafs bouquet! Didn't even know I was on brand with todays video! Love your 30 stem challenge!

[@theflowerfarmer]

winning all round xxx

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

It does look very striking against the pink. You are a fellow British eccentric and I love it!

[@theflowerfarmer]

all the best people x

[@susanschellberg4509]

Love it. So sculptural . Speaks winter and to the parts of nature we often ignor. I'm going to try one. I have some fabulous seed heads from my astillbe to add.

[@theflowerfarmer]

go for it x

[@janeturner7938]

Love it! Guess what I’ll be doing this weekend.😊

[@theflowerfarmer]

go for it x

[@heatherheather7107]

I love your content, Georgie. I get inspired every time I watch your videos so I’m hoping for some inspiration with what to do with the raspberry canes I will be cutting from the field of raspberries I grow for the fruit. Normally, once cut, canes are burnt but that’s not environmentally friendly. Do you have any creative suggestions that could provide income beyond just selling the fruit? I chop and dry some canes for kindling for our wood stove but that’s a drop in the bucket! Thank you, Heather

[@theflowerfarmer]

If they still have leaves raspberry canes make excellent foliage x

[@heatherheather7107]

@@theflowerfarmer Yes, they do. I will do that. Thanks!😊

[@caitegraceify]

1:51 haha my puppy Ziggy does the same thing. I took a phone call about a job opportunity and of course I told the director of the organization “oh that’s just my puppy she thinks I’m talking to a person…I mean you are a person, she thinks you’re here”. I was so embarrassed, but I got the job anyway 😂

[@theflowerfarmer]

congratulations xxx

[@GardenMyselfHappy]

I really enjoyed this thank you. I had planned some contorted Hazel, but have standard and some other dry things too including black bamboo and willow. Much to consider. Twigery pockery indeed. I've dropped a subscribe too.

[@theflowerfarmer]

thankyou - and you're very welcome to the channel x

[@GardenMyselfHappy]

@@theflowerfarmer ​@theflowerfarmer Thank you. 😊 I popped a little video together of my efforts yesterday. I need a bigger container for next year and will grow a few things that look nice dried I think. 😊 Can you recommend anything?

[@mirandamichaelis1066]

Inspiring as always. Thank you. I think I’ll just have to join your club. Would you mind sharing how much you’d charge for your winter wedding jam jar posies you showed in the clip? And do you charge when you talk at horticultural societies? Thank you again for your fabulously generous spirit and sharing so much.

[@theflowerfarmer]

I talk about all my pricing for club members so if you join you'll hear a lot on that subject. I do charge when I talk to horti socs xxx

[@katewhyte6274]

Great idea, looks gorgeous ❤

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@chrisdavies6473]

Hello Georgie, I love your videos and the thirty stem challenges. However, I think you've really got to do something about all of this rain!! I'd love to get out and start twigletting but it's pouring down up here!!! When will it stop???

[@theflowerfarmer]

I wish I could help with the rain - I too have had enough! x

[@sharcarlson4980]

You need an apron that says "Twiggery Pokery".

[@theflowerfarmer]

I do! x

[@leighyarger5814]

I wish that the background would of been bare light colored so I could see better

[@theflowerfarmer]

when I move up to my new studio there will be more background options - hope you watched to the end to see it in place with plain background that I made it for x

[@cassandrawright-mq5kp]

Challenge Accepted /FAILED! Well, I was out raking leaves, enjoying The Last of Autumn, preparing a barrel for composting over Winter. Hours later discovered a burning arm with a quite large tick embedding itself in the crook of my inner arm. Emergency Medical Fire Department medics arrived and spent 1/2 hour digging the monster tick out of my arm. Thankfully they were able to remove most all of it. Snow predicted soon. I'm quite done with Mother Nature for now.

[@theflowerfarmer]

ow! hope wound heals soon xxx

[@cassandrawright-mq5kp]

@@theflowerfarmer Thank you for kind wishes, dear. Healing along. Love your channel.🍂💌🌹

[@patphilroberts148]

That Sounds silly about the spout !!!!!

[@theflowerfarmer]

I know - but I still do it x

[@erinmclaughlin6861]

Challenge accepted. I am hosting our Thanksgiving dinner and have in the past year been really into growing flowers and decorating our house with things from my gardens and property. I have learned and found so much inspiration from your videos. Thank you so much!

[@theflowerfarmer]

Wonderful! x

[@BrittanyS143]

I love my trees to and yes I know they pat my head to 😊❤. I love stock but mine are baby's yet but I always asked if they would be good for decorating

[@theflowerfarmer]

I think all trees good for cutting x