For Bess and Craig Scott, Australian wildflowers are more than a business. They’re about family, history and shared purpose.
Words Megan Holbeck
Photography Pip Farquharson
IN one of Bess Scott’s earliest memories, she wakes up at the Sydney Flower Market. Aged three, she’d hidden in a box at the family stall and opened her eyes to see the faces of florists peering at her, framed by cardboard and flowers.
The framing has changed but the blooms have been constant. They were there during Bess’s childhood on the New South Wales Central Coast, surrounded by a dazzling range of Australian native flowers that have become the specialty of the family farm, East Coast Wildflowers. While studying visual arts at Sydney College of the Arts, her floral fix came through work with some of Sydney’s most innovative florists. And during a four-year stint in London, she mixed floristry with printmaking and painting.
