Styling Gardens by Coty Farquhar

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Inspiration for you Soul Yours, mine and ours.... we are one!

Styling Magazine No.2

The January issue of Styling magazine is now on line
and available for everyone to read, for free.

White and New Beginnings

Andrew and I have had such a wonderful and overwhelming response to the first issue
that we have decided that we would like to share this magazine with everyone for free.

People have been coming to the studio to see me and look at the magazine
and they're bringing photographs to show me of their homes and gardens.

Over the last couple of weeks since Christmas our studio has been a very busy place
as we all worked to complete Styling magazine no.2.

I received this lovely message below from a friend this week saying,
I love the path you're on! and you know, I think she is right,
my heart feels that I am definitely on the right path.

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Dear Coty, the purest of intention shines through all of your work.
I love the path you're on! God Bless you on your path.

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Another reader sent me a message saying

Hi Coty , So looking forward to reading this .
Your beautiful blog and photography inspired me
to buy property in The Southern Highlands.
I purchased a lovely 5 acre block in Canyonleigh
last September!

And another reader invited me to London to have tea!

Wouldn't that be fabulous! ... maybe one day.

To read the new Styling magazine just go to my blog
and click on the cover. You can also read (for free) our first issue,
Christmas & Celebrations.

We hope you enjoy Styling
and we would just love it if you shared
our new magazine with your family and friends.

x Coty and Andrew

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Styling Magazine Issue No.1 Our first on-line issue

This is such an exciting day for all of us here at Farquhars Styling Studio

as we launch the first issue of Styling Magazine.

Issue No.1

12th day of the 12th month of 2012

A very special day indeed!

Southern Highlands Homes and Gardens in Autumn

As I have mentioned over the last couple of weeks

I have been out and about almost every single day photographing and styling for my book and blog.

Here are a few snippets of some of the lovely homes and gardens

that I have been photographing and some special people that I have been working with.

The beautiful house and garden above is the home of my 'new' friend Bee Smith Gilbert and her family. Bee, who is also a stylist and blogger came into my studio last year when I first opened and we talked for hours (still do most days). A couple of weeks ago Bee dropped in again and she was talking about her selection of jams 'Bee Bon Belle' that she makes and sells at her shop at Dirty Janes in Bowral and she said that she was about to pick some quinces . Well...that was it!! the beginning a beautiful friendship. I said, Bee...let's do a shoot and I'll photograph you and your quince jelly - from the tree to the table. When I arrived at her home to pick her up, I drove into her amazing old property and I said, forget the quinces today, I think I need to photograph your home and garden.

The light was amazing as it flooded in through the french doors into her living room on a beautiful, beautiful Autumn morning. There's more to come...Bee and I will be setting up a wonderful table setting next week and shooting it on her patio under her Japanese Maple tree, it's just about to change colour.

Bee's blog - "Bee Bon Belle"

A couple of days later we finally went off together to a gorgeous old farm in Berrima (above and below) to pick the quinces and to my delight the farm was gorgeous, old slab buildings, stone walls, lovely old trees and it also needed to be photographed. Look at the all the wind flowers in front of the house and the colours of Autumn. I have so much more to show you over the next couple of weeks on this property.

As well as the quinces I have been photographing and working with so many of our Autumn fruits and berries, so much so that when I came into my studio yesterday I had a fruit bug breakout. I have been picking and styling still lifes with these beautiful fruits that I completely forgot to check them. Every thing's fine now...

Last week I had a call from another friend, Real Estate agent Judy Fisk who called to say, Coty, come and have a look at a property that I have for sale in Robertson, it's just Divine and the view is breathtaking. The owners of this home have lived here for over thirty years and it's hidden down a country lane on the edge of the town with views from the top of the Southern Highlands escarpment to the Coast. I will share this story with you next week, it's fantastic! The topiary garden is so pretty and there is a croquet lawn as well....The owner is an artist and what a wonderful place this is to create and paint.

Then one afternoon a couple of weeks ago I photographed a small home

filled to brim with old wares and antiques

It's a stylists dream cottage......anything and everything you could possibly imagine is in this home,

He is the one that the dealers drive to the Southern Highlands to buy their wares from.

More to come soon on this home soon..............

Then back at my studio I have been working on some Autumn still life shots.

It really is a magical time to collect things from the garden. I have boxes of pines, baskets of leaves, sticks, raffia, feathers and more.

It's a wonderful world that we live in........Mother Earth is an amazing

xx Coty

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Beautiful Greens, Seasonal Changes and some open Gardens in the Southern Highlands this weekend - The Southern Highlands Botanical Gardens

As many of you in the United States and Europe head into the warmer seasons of the year,

we here in the Australia are heading towards Winter.

As you may know, I'm out photographing gardens

and homes most days and I am especially noticing the changes

in our wonderful shady trees that are changing right now.

So I decided this morning that I would celebrate the

wonderful colour green,

ever changing green gardens, fabulous green glassware and china,

green vintage paintings, green interiors,

and just the sheer inspiration

that we get from the colour green.

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Open Gardens this weekend

Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens

There are some very special and beautiful gardens open
this coming weekend here in the Southern Highlands.

The Gardens

Bruce Rosenberg's beautiful property, Yarrawa in Burrawang (above)

(I have photographed Bruce's garden for my book and garden blog...coming soon)

Carisbrooke in Bowral

Linden Cottage in Bowral,

Vine Cottage in Burradoo

Quindalup in Sproules Lane, Bowral

Prittlewell in Bodycotts Lane Fitzroy Fall

Rain or Shine......It is well worth the trip to see these gardens,
even if you can jump on a plane from Sweden or New York...come along.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend,
x Coty

Southern Highlands Botanical Gardens website click here
(Entry $20.00 per head for all six gardens or $5.00 individual garden)

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and a little more green.........just because I love it so..

one of my very favourite clients to have worked with over the years
and such an incredible company
Hermes Paris
Just look at these fabulous green ads, wow...isn't it wonderful what green can do!