Paris Extra Part I
It’s been a busy month! Some pals leaving on great adventures, others coming to stay and wedding season thrown in too. I’m beginning to plan more of my own flower work for next year and getting excited...
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Continuing on from Part I and my initial Paris post, here is Part Deux where we have an amazing vertical garden, a little trip to a friends place in Orleon, and some super cute kittens that I shared my...
View ArticleWreaths
Last Friday, with Olive and Anne, we made a little tour around our neighbourhood collecting foliage and flowers before putting together some rustic wreaths. Here are a couple I made – one filled with...
View ArticleClea
We have just returned from a magical few days down at Sambo’s farm. The New Years Eve dinner tables were painstakingly built (between glasses of spritz) by the boys and decorated with quince branches...
View ArticleParis Extra Part III
A little flashback to Paris last August. All photographs by Sophia Kaplan.
View ArticleThe Florist and The Gardener
The amazingly creative, plant-obsessed Angie of Ode Ceramics and I did a story last month for The Planthunter about the different ways plant and flower people source, care for and arrange plants vs...
View ArticleSophia Kaplan Plants & Flowers
Last month I launched my website www.sophia-kaplan.com I’m still making some adjustments, but it’s an exciting step for my little business. Please check it out and let me know what you think!
View ArticleIndo Part I
I’ve just returned from a couple of weeks in Bali and Lombok. It was a incredibly beautiful holiday and a perfect balance of island and mountain life. First up Gili Air and Ubud. We started on on one...
View ArticleIndo Part II
After Gili Air and Ubud we headed up into the mountains at Sideman where we stumbled upon the most amazing Patal Kikian. We were the only people staying and had a huge private balcony looking straight...
View ArticleJardin de Reuilly-Paul-Pernin, Paris
This garden, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, and off the Promenade Plantée which I have previously written about, was an explosion of colour when I visited in summer last year. All photographs by...
View ArticleI recently changed my Instagram handle from @thesecretgardenblog to @sophia_kaplan Still the same photographs of gardens and flowers, but I wanted it to reflect my new branding and website. Some recent...
View ArticleL’été
I find myself back in Paris once again. Thus the lack of posts lately – my apologies – as I’ve been rather wifi-less of late. Our week in Paris at the end of June involved lots of summer fruits,...
View ArticleFinocchio Verde
In late June James and I took a train down to Lyon, hired a car and cruised across the alps to Piedmont arriving at dusk to an amazing little farm by the name of Finocchio Verde. We found our hosts...
View ArticleRoad Trippin’
After our first week in Paris last July we took the morning train down to Lyon and then hired a car and drove down across the border to Murazzano in Piedmonte where we worked for a week on Finocchio...
View ArticleFlowering
Sophia Kaplan Plants & Flowers is well and truly open for business. I’ve had so much fun on all the jobs I’ve done since I got back from Europe. To all my wonderful brides (and their grooms) and my...
View ArticleBiarritz
Surfing, rock-climbing and plenty of padrón peppers while in Biarritz and Saint-Jean-de-Luz back in July. All photographs by Sophia Kaplan.
View ArticlePortland + the Bearded Iris
Last month I got to experience the most incredibly flower-filled week in Portland. The main reason for our trip was to partake in a rather special flower workshop run by The Little Flower School...
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