Warm Fellowship Botanicals
Botanical styling for Bordeaux apartments
warmfellowship.sbs · Seasonal AlmanacWarm Fellowship Botanicals began as a shared notebook between two neighbours on rue Notre-Dame who kept trading cuttings across a Chartrons landing. The notes below are dated entries, not a brochure biography.
Camille brought a trailing pothos from her grandmother’s house near Sainte-Catherine; Léa answered with a clay pot of rosemary that refused to stay outdoors through March fog. We measured light on three landings before deciding which stems could survive a north stairwell.
That week we named the habit “fellowship”: plants moving between flats until each room held something that suited its window, not its owner’s shopping list.
A two-room flat above a quiet courtyard asked for greenery that would not hide the stone. We cleared plastic pots, raised stands to catch afternoon bounce from pale walls, and left a single dried stem jar for winter when watering habits drop.
The client’s landlord approved the stands because they left floor tiles untouched. Word travelled through the building faster than our tram ride home.
We opened a small ground-floor room at number 22 for consultations, specimen tables, and drying racks. The street brings limestone dust and café chatter; inside we keep humidity charts for Bordeaux’s Atlantic swings.
Léa leads courtyard and dried work; Camille leads indoor foliage and window compositions. Both of us still carry notebooks more often than tablets.
Clients kept asking when to restyle rather than what to buy. We answered by publishing this seasonal site: four planting windows, honest EUR figures, and specimen notes written like field cards.
If you visit, bring a photo of your brightest window and the one that stays stubbornly dim. We start from light, not from trends.