The Wild Press

A recent commission of red clover and a garden rose for two little girl’s bedrooms 🌸⁣
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I’ve got three framed pressed flower pieces in solid oak frames with UV conservation glazing if anyone needs a last minute present. The Hellebore and Forget me nots are both A3 (£130 each), the strawberry is A4 (£100) ☺️xx

So thrilled that the wonderful .l.o.v.e.r.s.t.o.r.e are now carrying a collection of my pressings! These have all now sold (as a set of six) this week so I’ll be back on the workbench over the weekend making more up for a little restock 🤍⁣
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Happy Vernal Equinox ✨⁣
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It won’t be long before our meadows are brimming with wildflowers… do you have a favourite? 🌸⁣
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Still here, quietly filling my presses with late winter treasure ✨⁣
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This was such a joy to create, especially during one of the darkest weeks of the year. That’s the beauty of everlasting flowers, when you need that little reminder of kinder days to come, where the earth is warm and a cacophony of delicate florets unfurl almost before your very eyes. Cosmos, geum, meadow rue, geranium, alchemilla, nepeta, anemone and spring starflower… all found flowering in my cottage garden in June ✨⁣
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Hello, I’m Jem! Thank you so much for being here as I start my exciting new venture 🥰⁣
I thought I’d tell you a little bit about how The Wild Press came to be…⁣
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Flowers have always been a part of my life. My Nanna was a florist who also grew her own flowers and I would spend hours as a little girl watching her lovingly create the most intricate bouquets, each stem placed thoughtfully and with meticulous attention to detail. ⁣
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My love of flowers has only grown over time and five years ago I started my own small scale flower farm. With a young baby in tow and working part time as a Nurse Practitioner it was harder than I imagined, having to cut the stems during the cool of the day meant being in the field at dawn. I would then sell them to florists or make up bouquets to place on my little roadside cart. I would be deadheading, sowing seeds, planting and watering late into the evening which meant my working days were often 16 hours or more. ⁣
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I wanted to find a way to express my love of flowers, but in a slower and more mindful way, embracing the seasons and using nature as my inspiration.⁣
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I started to press the wildflowers that I came across when walking on Otmoor. I remember the first time I opened my press and the feeling of pure joy that washed over me. There they were; the most beautiful flowers preserved in all their natural loveliness. I then decided to press flowers from the garden too, trying to capture them as I’d found them, embracing their organic shapes and character. I wanted to share the beauty of these everlasting flowers so that other people could appreciate how wonderful they are too, and so The Wild Press was born ✨⁣
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Field Poppy, Meadow Rue and Cow Parsley. All foraged from one of our beautiful Otmoor meadows and slowly preserved using a traditional flower press. Mounted on off white cold pressed paper and presented in an A3 minimalistic solid oak frame with UV conservation glazing ✨⁣
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(Framed dimensions: 44cm x 31.5cm x 1.2cm)⁣
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⁣£135 each
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Welcome to The Wild Press… Beautiful, slow pressed flowers which have been grown and gathered in and around Otmoor in Oxfordshire ✨⁣
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