A life in colour | Anna Worthington’s sprawling Ōtautahi garden

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A life in colour | Anna Worthington’s sprawling Ōtautahi garden

Topping her much-loved cakes with homegrown flowers was the motivation behind baker Anna Worthington’s garden. Now her sprawling garden, with colour as a central thread, is a creative outlet of its own.
This story was first told Sage Vol. 1: Life among plants

Anna Worthington’s business, Cakes by Anna, is renowned in Waitaha Canterbury (and beyond) – imaginative, botanically embellished confections, baked with the seasons in mind. She’s someone who follows her own rhythm: foraging flowers in unexpected places, creating her own style of cakes rather than slavishly following trends, and choosing colour over caution – in both her life and her garden…

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Anna Worthington's garden – full story in Sage Vol. 1: Life among plants

Anna has a thriving garden of possibilities to adorn her cakes. 
Flowers, herbs, fruit and veggies co-mingle in the same patch.
Bouquets are thoughtfully assembled with a walk through the garden, choosing blooms at their peak.
Much of what Anna grows feeds both her business and her creative curiosity.

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