Lavender Nursery
Feacebricks – 2022
In Dream Harbour, everyone’s dreams come true! Leda transformed an old house into a lavender-colored nursery. She cultivates plants and flowers, creating new species. Her daughter Cassie, after completing her gender affirmation journey, now happily sells flowers from the sand yellow shed next to Leda’s nursery.
Artwork description
The Lavender Nursery proudly blossoms on the High Cliff of Dream Harbour. To reach its entrance, one must climb a staircase that starts as wood and turns to stone. Inside, there’s a botanical studio and a small kitchen. Upstairs, you’ll find a cozy bedroom. On the sunlit roof, rare giant flowers grow, while more extraordinary flowers thrive on the terrace that juts out beside the nursery. Below, there is a greenhouse for succulents with a back door that opens onto the open sea through a cave carved into the rocks. To the side, there’s a small sand yellow flower shop.
A paradise brimming with flowers, plants, and passion
Leda inherited a small, old victorian-style house from her grandmother, perched atop the High Cliff at the far east of Dream Harbour. She transformed it into a nursery that houses her botanical studio and serves as a cozy retreat. She preserved the original walls and structures of the old house, completely renovating the interiors and exteriors, finally painting it with a vibrant lavender color and adding a rooftop garden for her most precious plants. Her daughter Cassie runs the charming sand yellow painted flower shop, which used to be the ticket office for the ferry to the West Lighthouse.
Grow Unique Plants
Watch as the enormous red and blue flowers grow, thriving only in the rooftop garden of your nursery.
Deliver Extraordinary Flowers
Offer unique varieties of flowers to the residents of Dream Harbour.
Study Biology
Uncover the secrets of plants and flowers using the tools in your studio.
Gaze Far with the Telescope
Explore the surroundings of Dream Harbour with your telescope, all the way to the West Lighthouse.
Water the succulents
Take care of the small succulents, protected by the greenhouse and always kissed by the sun.
Admire the Colors of the Sea
There’s a hidden passage through the High Cliff that opens onto a stunning terrace by the sea.
Leda’s Story
Flowers
Leda always had a special connection with flowers. As a child, she spent hours in the small garden of her grandmother’s old house, on the High Cliff. Flowers were her universe, she loved observing them: small, large, vibrant, or delicate. Some lived for weeks, others only days. Each unique in shape, size, scent, and texture, Leda documented every variety she found, filling her notebooks with colourful sketches and meticulous notes.
As the years passed, she began experimenting, crossbreeding local wildflowers to create surprising new varieties. Her passion for botany grew alongside her desire to share that beauty. Every day, she brought flowers to the elderly in the village, brightening their days with vibrant petals.
As she grew older, Leda studied botany while working to transform the old cliffside house that had belonged to her grandmother. She dreamed of turning it into a nursery where the beauty of flowers could be shared with everyone.
Love
One bright spring morning, as Leda was watering the flowers outside the old house, she saw Jeanluc dock at Dream Harbour for the first time. He had spent years traveling as a sailor and had finally found a peaceful port. He was seeking peace, fulfillment, and a life partner. As Jeanluc stepped off the boat, he noticed Leda too. He was a kind, thoughtful, and wise man. The next day, he showed up at Leda’s door with a sunflower, and her face lit up. A palpable sense of destiny surrounded them both.
Leda and Jeanluc quickly fell in love: strolls along the pier, picnics among the flowers, deep conversations, they shared a natural and immediate connection that soon blossomed into a deep and sincere love. Their wedding was a day of great celebration for all of Dream Harbour.
Family
Not long after, the two welcomed twins Paul and Cassie, into the world. The little ones often accompanied their mother to visit their father at the West Lighthouse, where Jeanluc worked as the keeper. The family used a small white boat, a gift from Jeanluc to Leda for their first anniversary, which they named “Leda” in her honor. The lighthouse became the backdrop for many happy moments, like when Cassie spoke her first word, “flower,” while giving a daisy to Paul. Flowers remained a constant, wonderful presence in Leda’s life, symbols of growth and change.
Leda and Jeanluc’s love for nature and respect for the astounding variety of life inspired them in raising their children. They taught them to respect diversity and personal choices, always leading by example. They supported Paul’s unexpected decision when, after finishing his architecture studies, he chose to forgo an office job and start a small farm instead. They also wholeheartedly supported Cassie when she, assigned male at birth, confided in them that she identified as female and embarked on her gender affirmation journey. Both Paul and Cassie found their paths, inspired by their mother, Paul as a farmer, and Cassie as a florist.
Lavender Nursery
Leda was happy. He continued working on transforming the house he inherited from his grandmother into a nursery. She shared her free time with Jeanluc, reading the stories he wrote during his days at the West Lighthouse, updating him on her progress in creating new flowers and plants, and sailing around the archipelago surrounding Dream Harbour. Their children were content and passionate: Paul worked in his gardens, surrounded by animals, and Cassie had opened a tiny but adorable flower shop, restoring the old shed next to her mother’s nursery, which had once been the ferry ticket office for the West Lighthouse.
The nursery where Leda dreamed of growing various types of plants and flowers had finally become a reality. After years of renovation, with dedication and perseverance, the Lavender Nursery now stood proudly and brightly atop the High Cliff at the western edge of Dream Harbour, a fabulous lavender-colored building surrounded by plants and crowned by the giant flowers Red Volcano and Blue Geyser, two of Leda’s most sought-after creations. Would you like some? You can find them at Cassie’s flower shop!
