Meet Pippa of Wildeflower
flowers from their gardens and my aunt
taught me a lot about arranging during
those young years.
Andrea Gemma Bester
HOW DID YOU FIRST FALL IN LOVE
WITH FLOWERS?
As a little girl I used to play in my
Mum’ s beautiful garden on our farm. I
would get lost for hours in the garden
each day, dancing among the ferns in
the shrubbery or picking roses and
magnolia blossoms. The garden became
a place of imagination and fun. At
the age of about 10, I started to go to
family-friends’ wedding set-ups in our
farming community. All the farmers’
wives would bring bakkie loads of
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HOW DID WILDEFLOWER START
Wildeflower was simply birthed out of
a passion for flowers and for creating
beauty. After working with two flower
companies, the time came for me to
start Wildeflower. I am a strong believer
in listening to your heart, and so that is
how I’ve learnt most of my skills with
arranging, by listening to my heart and
letting it guide me. Playing with flowers
is where I feel completely free, and so I
find the quote, ‘ You belong among the
wild flowers.. you belong somewhere you
feel free’ so fitting for how it all started.
Wildeflower started in KZN, and then
my husband and I moved to Cape Town
at the end of last year, so Wildeflower is
new down in the Cape.
WHAT I LOVE DOING
As my business name suggests, I love
creating floral pieces that are a bit wild
and look like they’ re ‘ growing’. In this
style I love creating big and bold set-
ups, such as covering the reception