The Wild Garden Collection New

Colourful and contemporary, this joyful collection celebrates Britain’s native wildflowers and wildlife-sustaining plants

Taking inspiration from beautiful hand-drawn flora, I have created a new collection of four designs depicting plants that give sustenance to bees and butterflies, food for birds, and cover for other creatures.

On a walk with my six-year-old grandson, we noticed one of the first honeybees of the season, emerging from their long sleep, dozily on the hunt for nectar amongst the hawthorn blossom. These are moments of amazement and wonder that I’ve tried to capture in my four new designs: Sunflower, Fine Foliage, Berries & Leaves and Dotty Check.

Taking inspiration from beautiful hand-drawn flora, I have created a new collection of four designs depicting plants that give sustenance to bees and butterflies, food for birds, and cover for other creatures.

On a walk with my six-year-old grandson, we noticed one of the first honeybees of the season, emerging from their long sleep, dozily on the hunt for nectar amongst the hawthorn blossom. These are moments of amazement and wonder that I’ve tried to capture in my four new designs: Sunflower, Fine Foliage, Berries & Leaves and Dotty Check.

SUNFLOWER

These cheerful flowers and the delightful way they nod towards the sun inspired me to create this new print. I also took inspiration from a Victorian ceramic tile depicting sunflowers; cutting the shapes from lino and printing the repeat pattern by hand.

FINE FOLIAGE

I collected and pressed these four contrasting leafy sprigs on a walk around Coniston Water in Cumbria. These shapes include ferns, bracken, hornbeam and wild grasses.

BERRIES AND LEAVES

Berries and leaves are abstracted in this multi-directional design with echoes of the shapes seen when simple fruits are cut in half. It’s a celebration of colour on a natural cream linen fabric, making it a light and airy choice for large windows. It is an easy choice for upholstery and continues my obsession with spots and organic shapes!

DOTTY CHECK

This playful design is taken from artwork by my daughter Rose Arbuthnott.

Rose says: “I would paint checks for days on end, exploring the limitless possibilities for colour combinations and then Mum proposed turning one of these checks into a fabric. It’s great to work together, we reminisced about our trip to the Isle of Harris for tweeds and other plaid designs I made in the Summer Isles years ago…”

WOODLAND WALK

This is one of my early design depicting ferns, leaves and dragonflies, which I have brought out in two new fresh colourways: Smoke and Moss.

LATTICE LEAF

This ever popular, classic trellis print in now available in Moss and Damson. 

LAPLAND STRIPE

I have added this new colourway to our Lapland Stripe collection, which features Moss, Lichen, Damson and Lily Pink. The stripe will coordinate with pinks and greens all across my collections.

NEW COLOURS

With these 24 new fabrics come three new colours:

Indigo: a versatile, warm blue

Soft Raspberry: a beautiful gentle red-pink

Day Lily: a subtle orange