Tulip Fever
Conceived and shot on the Hortus Poeticus farm, Tulip Fever explores the fleeting intensity of spring and the particular conditions that make the land an ideal setting for editorial work. Overlooking the Hampshire hills, the farm offers both cultivated abundance and moments of quiet wildness — a landscape that allows flowers to be grown, gathered and styled in direct conversation with place.
Referencing the 17th-century phenomenon of tulip mania, the story plays with ideas of desire, impermanence and cultivated beauty. Tulips grown on the farm were styled with a deliberately light hand, allowing colour, form and season to speak for themselves. Set within lived-in, domestic spaces and open garden settings, the shoot moves easily between still life and landscape, offering a range of textures and moods within a single location.
The result is a visual study that reflects the farm as both working landscape and creative resource — suited to editorial storytelling, seasonal studies and quietly expressive compositions.
Photography by Sussie Bell. Styled by Selina Lake.
Originally featured in The English Garden.
