Hyacinths are common indoor displays around Christmas, but if you plant them outside they stat flowering in the spring.

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The third Christmas themed pattern is holly.

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Oak trees and acorns are a staple of the English countryside.

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In the autumn the rosehip is one of the final pops of colour dotting the hedgerows.

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Since my trip to Scotland last year I’ve wanted to create a heather embroidery pattern.

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I have a glorious pot of purple pansies on my patio and their purple faces give me such joy each time I glimpse them.

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I love the delicious smell of sweet peas wafting towards my nose as I walk past them.

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In real life scarlet pimpernel flowers are tiny, good luck spotting them out in the wild!

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As we move from spring into summer the tall delights of cow parsley start to appear towering above other plants with their spray of white flower.

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For a long time, the only thing that grew successfully in my London garden (apart from weeds) was a lilac bush. The spears of purple and gorgeous smell on a sunny spring day were a delight.

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The nature reserve near me has a beautiful carpet of wood anemone appear each year. March is a little early for them in the North East but further south they will start appearing during March.

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Yellow catkins are a sure sign that the world around us is awakening from a winter hibernation.

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Winter Jasmine is one of the first plants to flower at the start of each year while everything else still lies dormant.

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Mistletoe is so associated with Christmas but have you ever seen it out in the wild? It's most common in western England and parts of Wales. It grows as a hemiparasite on trees and should be easy to spot once the trees have lost their leaves.

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If you walk across a field, down a steep set of steps you reach a nature reserve with fens and open water edged by bulrushes.

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Our honeysuckle plant hasn't flowered yet as it needs to mature but I can't wait to see it bloom and what glorious colour the flowers will be.

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Something a little different for this free pattern, not a flower but a fruit. Heading out of Summer and into Autumn, is a perfect time to pick blackberries from the brambles.

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Celebrate foxgloves standing proud and confidently above all the other flowers with this pattern.

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Daisies have been appearing in lawns and verges over the past few months and seeing a patch of grass in a park makes me want to lay down my blanket, have a picnic and make some daisy chains!

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Over the past few weeks, these have been popping up all over our garden, and are the first colour to really appear for us.

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Lily Of The Valley is such a beautiful and delicate flower and makes a really good subject for embroidery.

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The clusters of small light blue flowers are so pretty, whether in a garden or a wildflower meadow.

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Violets are popular and can be spotted in the woods or in your local flowerbed

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I love spotting primroses nestled in the steep slopes of the nature reserve nearby and they inspired this pattern.

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You may be lucky enough to spot cyclamen out and about on winter woodland walks

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The poinsettia is now as much a staple of Christmas as holly and mistletoe.

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Researching flowers that bloom in the winter, I came across the camellia. I chose to stitch this design in a gorgeous bright pink and this colour of camellias symbolise longing for or missing someone.

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Did you know that each month has a flower associated with it that is your ‘birth month flower’ in the same way that you have a birth month stone. Cosmos is the birth month flower for October. These simple flowers come in so many pretty colours so you can choose one to suit your mood.

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As we move into autumn there are fewer and fewer flowers about. Fuchsia is one that you'll often find until the first autumn frost.

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There is a roundabout nearby that has the most beautiful selection of wildflowers growing on it. Red poppies, white daisies, cow parsley, buttercups and a pop of blue cornflowers. I could have chosen any of them for this month’s pattern but I love the shape of the cornflowers.

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The scent of lavender wafts in the air during July and it is a bunch of dried lavender I used as inspiration for the July free embroidery pattern.

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I took a photo 20 years ago in Portland, Oregon in the rose test gardens where they grow hundreds of varieties of roses. It was thinking back to that trip and seeing all the roses in bloom that made me pick roses as the theme for June's free pattern.

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I’d heard that Beckenham Place Park was the place in SE London to see bluebells so I took a short train ride to go and admire them and they were beautiful and the inspiration for this month’s pattern.

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To me tulips are the natural successors to daffodils in the vase in my living room! Traditionally tulips mean enduring love between partners or family members - no wonder they are so popular.

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Spring is officially here! I love having a vase of these on my desk while I work, their bright yellow petals fill me with so much joy. Daffodils can symbolise creativity and renewal, but can also represent inspiration, memory, and forgiveness.

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I love to head out to the parks of London to spot the crocuses as they start to peak through.

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Looking back through the photos on my phone from last year I had snapped a picture of some snowdrops and felt drawn to make this into an embroidery.

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