Daffodil Project

Bowl made from 100% waste from Cornish daffodil fields

Daffodils have been grown in Cornwall for well over a hundred years. For various reasons, sometimes the flowers are not picked and instead the leaves and stems shrivel back and are left in the field to decompose.

Forager Rachel Lambert standing in a field with gleened daffodil stems
A white lurcher sitting in a field of dried daffodil stems

Visiting the same field in far, West Cornwall I started to harvest these dried, discarded stems. As the weeks turned to months I started to explore them as a material and create beautiful objects with them.

Aerial view of bowl made from 100% daffodils sitting in the field of daffodils where in was made
Woman wearing a nal-binding style neck adornment made from dried daffodils
A raw piece of cordage made from daffodil stems in the field

This is an on-going project exploring the natural, ‘waste’ materials left in the cultivated daffodil fields to create sustainable, zero-waste objects and bowls. Want to learn how to make cordage (string) from plants? I run short workshops on Wild Cordage Making and How to Make a Bowl or Pot from Plants.

Heritage craft made from dried, gleened daffodil stems sitting in a field