If you’ve ever flown over Adelaide in the early summer, you will know two things - firstly, the streets look scarily close and secondly, those same streets are awash with tree after tree of lurid purple jacaranda flowers. The colour is so vivid and so memorable that when I set about creating a gift for my friends 21st, the pale purple-grey yarn...

These socks are a celebration of texture inspired by banksias, one of the most weird and wonderful families of Australian plants. But it’s not the flowers that are the centre of attention on these beauties - it’s what the hordes of birds, bees, and cheeky ringtail possums leave behind.

Sturt desert peas are the floral emblem of South Australia, and a most peculiar, hardy little plant. Flowering in deserts, they are a rare but beautiful reminder to bloom where you are planted, no matter the circumstances. Now you don’t need to go bushwalking to enjoy their vivid hues - you can take them with you on any walk you like!