Saturday 21 November 2020

The last of the summer flowers

So...it's getting darker and the garden flowers are coming to their end. Our garden does pretty well in the late summer/early autumn with cosmos, dahlias, japanese anemones, roses and scabious lasting well into November. Using these late flowers I put the same bouquet in three different vases to show an October bride the impact that vases can have on the look that is created:



The autumn has delivered a wonderful crop of late tomatoes, cotoneaster berries and chile peppers - a fantastic hit of red.


Even this week (late November) we have ammi visnaga, cosmos, scabious and dahlias still hanging on, even if they are beginning to get a bit ragged around the edges.


And here is an abundant vase full of these late autumn beauties.
This week I bought a few buckets of flowers and foliage from my wholesaler in Cornwall. It was so lovely to get my hands on a great range of flowers again so late in the year. It is March since I last ran a workshop and had a delivery of Cornish flowers. I have been working with them over the last couple of days, and taking photos of them....I am hoping to get a couple of images that will work for Christmas cards. Here is a taster:

My thoughts are turning to Christmas flowers as we approach December. I find that flowers can raise my spirits during these difficult, dark lockdown days. If you are feeling a bit low, why not buy yourself a lovely bunch of flowers whilst you are out doing your shopping? Keep safe and well everyone.