Week 19 // Slow Flowers Challenge with Flowering Branches
May 15th, 2015
Some of Springtime’s most alluring flowering branches include: Magnolia, Dogwood, Apricot, Quince and Cherry.
We’re digging into the archives this week for the Slow Flowers Challenge. That’s what happens when I find myself on too many airplanes, which is ironic, isn’t it? It’s sort of the opposite of my “Slow” aspirations!
However, I’m just back home from speaking and teaching in Orlando, Florida. And now, after recharging for the past five days in Seattle, I’ve re-packed and am heading to the airport tonight to fly to London!!!
That’s right! I’m off to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. I’ll also be meeting many of the people active in the British Flowers scene – U.K. flower farmers and florists who have many of the same objectives that we have here in the U.S. To put local, seasonal and sustainably-grown flowers at the center of our tables!
Stay tuned, because I promise that next week’s Slow Flowers Challenge will be decidedly British!
The acid green of variegated hostas and euphorbia create a “skirt” effect for flowering magnolia branches.
I absolutely love the images you see here. I created these arrangements for a national magazine story that was, sadly, never published. The editors, as they say, went in a different direction.
But my photos live on and I’m delighted to share them with you here.
The vase at left is filled with Pieris and Dogwood; the vase at right has both flowering Dogwod and twig dogwood.
Flowering Cherry with Snowball Viburnum.
Simple: Quince in two hues, plus swordfern.
Flowering plum, paired with Lamb’s Ear foliage.
Spring hellebores paired with flowering apricot branches.