In The Studio with: JamJar Edit

With the arrival of spring comes a sense of beginning. For Amy Fielding of JamJar Edit, the pressed flower studio behind our latest seasonal postcard, it marks the moment the presses begin to fill again.

“The arrival of spring is really the beginning,” she says. “When the flowers wake up, so do we.”

By late winter, the studio’s archive of pressed botanicals runs low and the heavy wooden presses sit empty on their shelves. Then come the first signs of change: winter blossom, snowdrops, hellebores pushing through cold soil. Soon after, daffodils and crocus make it official. The year has started.

There is something quietly satisfying in this rhythm. The light lingers a little longer. The birds are louder. You look up at five o’clock and it’s still bright outside.

Flower pressing, by contrast, moves slowly. Each stem is gathered, arranged and laid carefully between layers before being left to dry over time. It cannot be hurried.

“We live fast paced lives,” Amy says. “Pressing flowers forces you to look closely. At the veins in a petal. At the way a stem curves. You notice more.”

That act of looking is central to her work. A field poppy reveals unexpected detail when flattened. A fern unfurls into something almost architectural. The process preserves not just colour, but structure.

Detail matters, but so does restraint.

“It has taken years to know what to pick and what to leave behind,” she explains. “Often it’s when we remove flowers from a composition that it starts to sing.”

That balance of attention and restraint felt naturally aligned with our Spring collection. Soft pinks, gentle greens and warm neutrals appear in both the pressed cosmos Amy created for our postcard and the wider palette of the season.

Colour, she notes, can transform a piece entirely. A snowdrop mounted on chocolate brown suddenly feels bold. A subtle shift in background alters the mood.

It is a reminder that small changes carry weight.

Each postcard is a simple addition to our parcels, a quiet nod to the season and to the hands that shape it. A pressed flower, carefully gathered and preserved, marking the gentle shift into spring.

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