Becky Crowley is possibly best described as part gardener and part artist. Her path through cut flower growing, floral art, floristry & garden-making has been a winding one, but these different elements have been woven together by a desire to create something — be it a garden, an art work, or an arrangement — that lights something up in the human spirit.  It’s an ideal that can sometimes get overshadowed by the day-to-day practicalities of the work, but it’s the intention to which she returns when making anything new.

Becky has had some incredible settings in which to work, including, between 2014 - 2019, serving as the cut flower grower at Chatsworth House, an historic treasure house in Northern England, home to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. 

During this time she began documenting the incredible variety of seasonal flowers through botanical photography. This has been a soul-nourishing creative outlet for her and a medium through which to share beauty and plant knowledge with many like-minded flower lovers. Over the last eight years this regular practice of observing / documenting / arranging has turned into a substantial body of work.

After two years working alongside Erin Benzakein on her 24-acre cut flower farm, Floret, helping to design numerous teaching and display gardens, a series of plantings to attract beneficial insects, wooded areas, as well as over a mile of mixed hedgerows.

Becky returned to England in late 2021 and since then, alongside setting up my print business, I’ve had the opportunity to design two new cutting gardens. 

The first of these has been in collaboration with award-winning designer Luciano Giubbilei as part of his re-design of a walled garden at Raby Castle in County Durham.  The second is set within the new private garden of my former employers at Chatsworth, The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, which rather wonderfully, brings me full circle to where this seasonal flower growing adventure began, in Derbyshire!  I’m looking forward to seeing both of these new gardens come to life in 2023.