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Celebrating nature's beauty in fine art prints, botanical tales, accessories with botanical art photography by Kriss MacDonald.

Wild About Here is a blog about nature adventures and living creatively with camera, kids, recipes & books. I’m a mother, photographer, blogger, journalist, cook and dreamer. I’m British and American thus both Mum and Mom to my fraternal twins.

27/10/2026

October moments when the Dahlias keep giving and the last olives cling to their branches. I’ve been trying to work out a name for this floral flatlay and the title of this song seems perfect for it - ‘Hold this Moment.’

It’s that time when you can see, feel, and sense the seasonal story changing. You don’t want to leave behind those warm days but yet you look forward to what nature and home will be soon offering.

The flowers and olives in this botanical art photograph were all grown in my garden and photographed in natural light.

21/10/2026

A bunch of flowers for you … we had one day of rolling thunder and rain, then the sun reappeared.

But I want the rain to return and soak the ground and nourish the garden. I actually want to plant bulbs for the spring while getting drenched in rain so the ground is soft and easy to dig again x in the meanwhile I can still go for a swim in between long hours editing floral artworks and phone cases to release in the weeks ahead x

Floral photography, floral artworks, garden flowers

14/10/2026

What do you Hope for? I called this floral artwork ‘Hope’ because butterflies symbolise hope and new beginnings. When I created the nature display to show off the phone cases featuring my Hope premium phone case I added Dahlias, butterfly wings, and a Gladiolus. My Autumn garden has Dahlias coming into full bloom but it also decided to give me a surprise October Gladiolus in the wrong season. And the video of when I created Hope is to show that these are real flowers from the garden….a flatlay with freshly picked home grown flowers photographed In natural light.

And why am I creating for every phone case a display of vintage books, flowers, and phone cases? Because I believe we can and need to balance our lives of nature and technology. It’s our modern version of a nature diary x

07/10/2026

I can’t help collecting nature treasures on my walks… Amongst drying flowers, seeds gathered from the garden, I have little boxes full of feathers, shells, bird nests, egg shells, butterfly and moth wings. Most of the nests are from my garden - blown off tree branches in the Autumn wind. One day my son found and brought me an orange and black butterfly he had found on the ground - it was a Monarch butterfly!

A quiet moment with a flower tea. In (1 ) and (4) I have an October collection with Dahlias and flowers blooming in my garden, vintage books, my nature finds including the Monarch.

(2) and (6) Dahlia ‘ Fairway Spur’ and pink Pom Pom dahlias behind them - cloudy but still waiting for rain!
(3) My studio

(5) I’ve sighted Monarch butterflies quite a few times here in the Algarve - as seen in the video of two feasting on wildflowers. Incredible journey where some made it thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean and then found a haven here I. Southern portugal. There’s a plant called Gomphocarpus fruticosa here which has helped them to survive and continue here.

(7) (8) It’s going to be apple picking time this week - although this year is not going to be as plentiful from our two little trees as this box last October.

30/09/2026

It’s called LOVE. And it’s going to be released so you can carry flowers and nature with you wherever you go. I’ve also included the names of all the flowers I used in my botanical photograph….

Behind the scenes I’m preparing to launch premium phone cases featuring my floral artworks. A top priority was that they were ultra protective but at the same time they had the best printing quality like my limited edition fine art prints. Don’t miss out as I’ll be announcing when they’re ready in my newsletter.

Why did I call it ‘Love’? When I first created this botanical work in a past September, with flowers grown from my garden, I thought of Dolly Parton’s words: “Love is like a butterfly. As soft and gentle as a sigh. The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings.”

There have been so many butterflies in my garden this September…but today we had the first sprinkles of Autumn rain.

Each MagSafe and Tough case is individually printed and will be shipped worldwide - exclusively from my website shop Wild About Here.

23/09/2026

‘The Fig & Olive Garden’ marks the change of seasons when it’s time to gather the abundance of fruit that has been ripening throughout the summer. Figs and olives are also rather special as they are symbols of peace, blessing and prosperity.

This botanical artwork is also filled with flowers grown in my garden. Fragrant Honeysuckle, Lavender, and Salvia mixed with Dahlias, Roses, Hibiscus, Bougainvillea, Echinacea, Plumbago and more. To highlight nature’s abundance and gifts to us I photographed multiple flatlays of these real flowers and edited them together - including the figs and olives.

Wishing you a fruitful and peaceful Autumn as we now mark the Autumn equinox x

15/09/2026

I was worried that I would have hardly any Dahlias this year but they’ve started growing again. The combo of our current heatwave but cooler nights has meant they’ve woken up after a summer break. I’ve been learning that in hot climates you can actually have two seasons of Dahlias - first in late spring and then again in the Autumn. Often October is when most of my Dahlias come into full bloom. Which is why many of my botanical art photographs include Dahlias in Autumn.

In a contrast of seasons - (1) is a flatlay from a past late August with ‘Dahlia breakouts’.. (2) is a ‘ Cafe au Lait’ flowering now with more about to bloom (3) the best flower bed for my Dahlias is on my terrace which gets lots of water, gentle morning light, and full afternoon sun (despite lots of gardening advice telling me it’s better to have almost semi shade in the afternoon, I’ve found the opposite works best for me…after a lots of experimenting!)…. (4) a little patch of Dahlias this May in my garden but they didn’t make it through the summer x

07/09/2026

Amaryllis belladonna have started flowering in the garden 💕 Also known as the Naked-lady-lily as they now grow as leafless red stalks which open into beautiful blooms. These are actually the only and true Amaryllis species - the popular flowering bulbs in all sorts of colours sold nearer Christmas time are Hippeastrum.

Amaryllis belladonna for me are a perfect drought-resistant flower as I don’t water them during the hot dry months of summer. The bulbs are planted at the surface with their necks sticking out for best flowering so I don’t have to worry about accidentally over watering them or digging them up. I’ve included a shot (no 5) of these same ones in early Spring when they have no flowers but lots of leaves.

In the next few weeks I expect more to show up including in my gravel garden🌸

03/09/2026

September days in my corner of the world…the Algarve. Choosing flowers from the garden to reflect the change of season in my floral art photography

Dahlias start coming into full bloom…although each year I’m surprised by old and new arrivals

My home in the background…I live in the middle of the countryside. All the fields are dry (including ours) as the wildflowers continue with their beauty sleep.

My favourite time to go for a beach swim as the ocean water is usually warmest now…and no longer huge crowds..

The west coast of Algarve is a favourite area of mine for walks along the cliff tops ..such a beautiful wild area

But also love nature walks by our home with one of four dogs (three rescued as puppies)

Atractylis gummifera - one of the few wildflowers around right now

Roses are all flowering again in the garden

And frequent visits to plant nurseries to see what I can plant in my autumn garden…sometimes with some unexpected other visitors. Happy September ###

31/08/2026

I had no idea when I created and named my floral art ‘Poppy & Gladiolus’ that these two flowers are known as the August birthday flowers. I discovered they are the birth flowers for August while writing the description for my phone case (no 3 - a MagSafe Tough case) featuring this botanical art photography. My art is created with real flowers grown in my garden. The Poppies were all across the fields just outside my home - many in our own field.

Gladiolus, symbolising strength and love, flower in various months in my garden - the white Gladiolus in no 2 just bloomed this month. Poppies in our warm climate appear in Spring while showing up in the summer months other regions. I’ve started to scatter some poppy seeds already in our garden too as I love their wild mix with garden hybrids (no 5).

1 ‘ Poppy & Gladiolus’
2. White gladiolus
3. Poppy & Gladiolus premium phone case which will be part of my first launch.
4. How I create…flowers are composed on canvas and photographed in natural light
5. Poppies and gladiolus in the garden
6 Gladiolus in my garden
7. WIldflowers including pink and red poppies in our field

Kriss xx

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