A Healing Rose & Peony Garden In The English Cotswolds | Garden Tour

So this is my rose and peony or my rose and peony beds that I planted when I first got here five years ago and now they're this tall and they are my happy place. So every time I come and go from my house and my garden I get the scent of rose and peony and it fills me with joy, especially in the evenings when the scent is super strong in the air. And the other side of here I've let the grass grow long and so the bees and the insects are just also in their happy place. So I've since I came here I learned lots about roses. My favorite are the David Austin roses which are sprinkled amongst these peonies but the combination of the two for me is the absolute best and in fact rose the vibration of the smell of rose is the highest vibration that you can get and it's the best cure for grief or the best relief should I say that rose remedy and so this space is really a healing and wonderful place to be. This is my studio or I've adapted it to my studio it's the old used to be the old orangery I believe or greenhouses, Victorian greenhouse, lean-to greenhouse. I just love this space like it was one of the reasons I bought the house. The sage has gone crazy and the bee the sound of bees is just magnificent that the sound of bees humming is in fact another very healing sound. So just to stand here and listen is is an honor in itself as we make our way through the sage and the bees. This is another happy space for me especially in the summer months I just can spend all day painting in here and making my lamps. I've used two in here to create this sort of atmosphere with the lighting and it's just it's so light and bright that it's the perfect spot for painting. I love the texture on the walls I just left that organically as it is and you can see out into the garden although this year my hollyhocks have got so tall I can't see beyond them right now but I've kept roses outside the windows here as well and the scent wafts into the studio and mixes with oil paint and clay and that is a happy place. And through the doorway here is an old passion flower that's growing up and just winds its way around and keeps this room cooler and shady. This is an old Victorian planting shelves and one day I've got ambitions to grow scented geraniums in here. So when I was a very little girl my dad told me that he used to take him hours to get me around the pot because I would smell every rose. So I think that my heart is with roses and the garden and that connects me to this palette and sensitivity to what I'm surrounded by. So I've always had that and at school I loved art. I've always loved life drawing, painting, art and I went on to art college for a little bit and then I went to London and I found myself doing sets with World of Interiors, painting walls with concrete and covering furniture in striped wallpaper and doing all sorts of exciting set building things which I loved and then I worked for House and Garden for some time doing styling and all sorts of different shoots with fabrics and furniture and I even took some sun loungers to Leicester Square once and we used to always try and push the boat out and see what we could get away with with our editor and that's where I got more and more into my interior design and pulling things together to make a composition or with a photograph and from there I took it on and learned how to do photography and when I left House and Garden I went freelance and worked as a photographer doing interiors and food and lifestyle which I really enjoyed meeting lots of different people and characters. By Homeworthy it was lovely to share my house with you. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. See you soon. Thanks for watching. Be sure to go to homeworthy.com for exclusive content, shopping guides and so much more.