SLOW FLOWERS: Week 26
June 30th, 2013
A STROLL IN THE GARDEN
This bouquet will forever transport me to my former garden in Ventura County, California, which we left in July, 2010. I created this bouquet from all garden ingredients the month before moving away.
Ingredients:
All were harvested from my former garden in Ventura County, California
5 branches fern pine (Podocarpus gracilior)
7 stems and pods of lily-of-the-Nile (Agapanthus ‘Snowy Owl’)
1 spray ‘Iceberg’ rose (Rosa ‘Iceberg’), a popular floribunda rose
3 vines evergreen jasmine (Jasminum polyanthum)
3 stems Shasta daisy (Leucanthemum x superbum)
5 stems blue tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca ‘Salta Blues’), a flowering tobacco with blue-green leaves and long, tubular yellow flowers. This is a cool plant for the perennial border and an equally fetching choice for my bouquet.
7 stems yarrow (Achillea ‘Moonshine’)
9 stems-seed heads fountain grass (Pennisetum orientale)
3 grapevines (Vitis vinifera)
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- Fountain Grass
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- Blue Tree Tobacco
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- Moonshine Yarrow
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- Shasta Daisy (Double)
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- Agapanthus
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- Agapanthus Pod & Grapevine
Vase:
10-inch tall x 7-inch diameter celadon ceramic vase
Seasonal Choices
See the possibilities everywhere: I’m convinced that even the tiniest of gardens can yield interesting and unique flowers, branches, leaves, vines and stems for a seasonal bouquet. You don’t have to be a flower farmer to grow
and harvest appealing ingredients. And you don’t have to be a pro to assemble an eye-pleasing arrangement. Just use your powers of observation to appreciate and experiment with the seasonal beauty around you.
July 1st, 2013 at 11:53 am
Agapanthus grow like weeds in our garden but I never have used them in an arrangement! A thought provoking arrangement to get me to look again at what we have growing in our yard! I agree, flowers, like food have the ability to transport us to another time and place, evoking hidden memories.