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LIVING —— Garden
Full bloom
Multitalented sisters
Carmel and Milly
Van Der Hoeven host
floral workshops in
a glorious garden.
INTERVIEW When sisters Carmel and Milly Van Does creativity run in your family?
Alice Lines Der Hoeven aren’t working as an artist C: Both of our grandmothers were
(at George Sand Studio) and a flower involved in creative pursuits, as
PHOTOGRAPHY farmer/stylist (at Primm Gardens) well as our mother, aunties and quite
respectively, they join forces to share
a few of our cousins, so I’d say so, yes!
Nita Meyer their passion projects with fellow I always dreamed of being an artist
plant and ceramics enthusiasts at their but the standard comment I got at
annual Flora in Clay workshop hosted school was that nobody can make
on Milly’s rural Waikato property. a living doing that, so with that in
mind, I went on to study fashion.
You’re both based in Pirongia — is that I took a roundabout way to get to
where you grew up? Carmel: We were where I am today but I’ve always
raised in Te Awamutu, 10 minutes east wanted to work as a creative.
of Pirongia. We both wanted to raise Milly: We grew up in a relaxed,
our children here because it has a creative home and were given the
great village vibe. freedom to find our own paths.
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