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    Wild instincts

    Sep 15, 2019 3 minutes
    INTERVIEW Alice Lines
    PHOTOGRAPHY Neeve Woodward

    Felicity Jones’s mum was a passionate gardener who always had beautiful seasonal arrangements in their Auckland home. As a child, Felicity enjoyed picking and placing flowers too, but she didn’t really start gardening until she moved to London and into her first home with her designer husband Chris Pitts. Its small patch and her current garden in Auckland’s Grey Lynn were both inspired by the traditional English style of orchestrated chaos within a formal structure.

    So, Felicity, tell us

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