As well as co-curator of Flowers on the Edge, Liv is founder Wetherly. She grows on the Herts-Beds-Bucks border with her mum, Kate, and runs her British flower studio from London. Her installation for Flowers on the Edge was centred around the daisy. Not because it’s showy, but because it isn’t: ‘I always find the most beautiful flowers are the unexpected ones, the ones that don’t immediately shout out at you like a peony or a rose, those are easy to appreciate, their beauty is obvious. I like the flowers which are more subtle, which require some attention. 

The intention was to encourage people to notice the ‘flowers’ that are everywhere. To look at the things that we walk past and often ignore. To find the beauty there, to see that it can be accessible to everyone. The use of the milk bottles was quite deliberate too - I didn’t want to use a cool, sexy vase, I wanted to use something that invoked something real, something that could conceivably be grabbed at home and the flowers plonked in. A child’s offering to a parent.’

The piece included bricks and sections of turf, urban fragments. Her aim was to encourage people to notice and connect with the flowers around them. Not just the bought ones, the ones underfoot, the ones we’ve all picked at some point.

​​’It was conceptual, conceived for the exhibition but at the same time I’d love to use daisy filled turf for event florals. Remove it from its original setting, give it space and you elevate it. No longer the humble daisy, the hero daisy.’

This is floristry for Liv: not big bunches or luxury centrepieces but connection. Noticing. A single flower, held out as a gift. Her work reflects nature left untamed. It asks us to slow down and pay attention, to the materials, to the place, and to where beauty really begins.