The accidental florist

f you had to describe Felicity Jones I in just one word “versatile” comes to mind – followed closely by

“creative”. Not only does she run her own floristry business but she also sings in a choir, teaches music, collaborates with other people in art projects, helps out in her local community garden in Auckland and recently worked as a “botanical specialist” on the set of a BBC adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries. Did I mention she also grows many of the flowers she sells in her Grey Lynn garden and has two children?

A keen gardener all her adult life, she began growing