Atelier Auge | Muse Polly Nicholson
Name: Polly Nicholson
Job: Flower grower and florist
Website: www.baytunflowers.co.uk
Instagram: @bayntunflowers
Current Colour Obsession: Edward Bulmer paint ‘Lilac Pink’
What is your favourite
Song of the moment:
The Disney Pixar Lava theme song by Jim Murphy
Song of all time:
Nanci Griffith with James Hooker Going back to Georgia, Bobbie Gentry Ode to Billie Joe, Dolly Parton Jolene
Fiction:
I’m about to finish The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, I want it to be longer
Non Fiction:
Flames and Feathers: English Florists’ Tulips by the Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society, it’s my go-to historic tulip reference book
Recipe Book:
Mary Berry’s Complete Aga Cookbook
Film:
Little Miss Sunshine
Documentary:
Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock
Exhibition of late:
200 Kinds of Green, the Botanical Art of Franz and Ferdinand Bauer at Teylers Museum in Haarlem
Piece of Advice:
It doesn’t matter if you don’t sleep, you’ll just have some extra adrenalin and perform better tomorrow
Garden to visit:
Babylonstoren in South Africa, The High Line in New York, Rousham in England
Place to stay:
Vamizi Island, Mozambique
People who inspire you:
My husband Ed, Anna Pavord, Arne Maynard
Favourite Painting:
Any of the flower still lifes by Rachel Ruysch, mother of 10, Court painter and lottery winner who worked until the age of 83
Scent:
Figuier by Diptyque
Museum:
Hortus Bulborum in Limmen, or the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford
Restaurant:
The Ruin, Tresco and I’m liking the Barrafina chain in London
Instagram accounts:
@shaneconnolly @brittwilldyer @thegardenmuseum @tmagazine
Podcast:
I’m more of a radio listener, anything between BBC Radio 2 - 4 depending on the time of day
Snack Food:
Dr. Karg emmental and pumpkin seed crispbread
Current obsession: Cleaning and sorting all my historic tulips. Historic tulips seem to be an ongoing current obsession in fact.
