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Halloween flowers in SevenoaksJack-O-Flowers
A pumpkin carved at the bench and planted with the darkest stems of the season (burgundy dahlias, black scabious, orange roses, blackberries still on the branch), with a candle inside for the evening. It is made the morning it goes out, and gone by the first of November.
For three weeks a year the studio goes over to the dark side. The pumpkins are carved, the dahlias are the colour of old claret, and the candles are lit at four.
Something wicked this way blooms
The Jack-O-Flowers is the whole season in one pumpkin: carved by hand, lined, and planted with the darkest stems we can find that week (dahlias, scabious, roses and hedgerow berries), with a candle set inside for after dark. It is made the morning it goes out, and it is not for sale after Halloween night.
Dress the house for the night
A candle the colour of old wine for the window, amber glass for the table, an owl in cast iron for the mantelpiece and a lantern for the step. Everything below was chosen to keep bad company with the flowers; add it beside them and it arrives in the same box.
Delivered before the witching hour
Order before the cut-off and the van brings it the same day across Sevenoaks and the villages; put your postcode in before you order and it says which day it can come. The sympathy flowers keep well out of all this: that page stays exactly as it always is.
Goes horribly well with
Chosen to keep bad company with the flowers: a candle for the window, something amber for the table, a watcher for the mantelpiece.
Scent to go with it
Spice Night Scented CandleBlack pepper and patchouli, warm and bold: the smell of a house that has been carving pumpkins all afternoon. Light it at dusk and leave the door on the latch.
£32
Something to stand it in
Macon Rustic Pillar Candle, Dark Red — 20 cmA tall pillar the colour of a very old wine, for the window a passer-by should not look at twice.
£9.50
And one more thing
Cast Iron Mr Owl — 20 cmAn owl in cast iron, who has seen everything and says nothing. He keeps watch on the mantelpiece long after the pumpkin has gone soft.
£65
Candlelight beside it
Glass Candlestick Tilda, Amber — 16 cmAmber glass and a dinner candle: the light of a séance, minus the séance.
£14
Candlelight beside it
Danish Dinner Candle, Dark GreyDinner candles in a grey that reads as black once the lights are down. Buy a handful.
from £2.50
Flowers to go with it
Autumn GlowThe season's bunch in its darkest key: burnt orange and smoke bush, the bonfire before the fireworks.
from £55
Flowers to go with it
The Wild OneHedgerow stems that look as though they were gathered by moonlight, because they very nearly were.
from £55
