Haven Magazine

Green odyssey

The influence of a grandmother can never be underestimated, especially when it comes to passing on a love of gardening. There’s usually one or two lurking in the greenery behind every self-confessed plant nerd, and for Auckland gardener and botanical artist Felicity Jones, this is certainly the case. “I’m a mad keen gardener and have loved flowers all my life really, and my mother was the same and her mother was the same.”

These green roots were the catalyst for starting a small-scale flower farm at her Grey, an ongoing 

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