tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84258054409142270932024-03-05T10:53:08.997-08:00MeadowsweetLizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-91188370705043163162023-02-28T05:19:00.000-08:002023-02-28T05:19:36.583-08:00Floristry sale<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs67_21DtNuCu408METy5Zw2Ce4vLPu2L-JaHDk4jkI1lUD8E0u82yUkgd7iwHti88cOLuIZDnUEVTcyMhDNWtzsoerBvln8DmcfHsxdOkO9y4DnEaALdHXMF-lbLAID6w00ILwLqHAwjyT_CLBRzJs5Ck8MojLp6iL3cnt87s968pBVHqqn7l3_U1/s4060/DSC03152%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4060" data-original-width="3870" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs67_21DtNuCu408METy5Zw2Ce4vLPu2L-JaHDk4jkI1lUD8E0u82yUkgd7iwHti88cOLuIZDnUEVTcyMhDNWtzsoerBvln8DmcfHsxdOkO9y4DnEaALdHXMF-lbLAID6w00ILwLqHAwjyT_CLBRzJs5Ck8MojLp6iL3cnt87s968pBVHqqn7l3_U1/s320/DSC03152%20edit.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">After a lot of soul searching I have decided to wind up the part of my flower business which uses live flowers for weddings, workshops and bouquets. So I have decided to sell most of my floristry paraphernalia. Here is a sample of what I will be selling. Lots of pretty Heron Cross jugs with a range of patterns:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQGC0U93Tn07s4N66YCaQcs1jmjVzPoMuVuUOtpIvsbfdtcevHppzSbhFFhTde8ec80RjvYGlRoSyPXiZgPWmgw_EcNzahYOpCQjiBNss9APWeR3a1U2Y4bK53reB6f1UqJmnpDF2k0kU-Uk7wTv8z8X60RRk76x5aas6huvWn7yF2-QbXmkR8H0jL/s3982/DSC03135%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3382" data-original-width="3982" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQGC0U93Tn07s4N66YCaQcs1jmjVzPoMuVuUOtpIvsbfdtcevHppzSbhFFhTde8ec80RjvYGlRoSyPXiZgPWmgw_EcNzahYOpCQjiBNss9APWeR3a1U2Y4bK53reB6f1UqJmnpDF2k0kU-Uk7wTv8z8X60RRk76x5aas6huvWn7yF2-QbXmkR8H0jL/s320/DSC03135%20edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Various enamel jugs:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7W65MLqxf7m6CUxfxsoXDlj9LkvIfouPjXeFFfpcsOsP_K_pSkzZcosNXCDyDx8xe7n-YEeJuwcbxDeBVW16EDGZmGTqwf49bEQ_2RZg8RRJflusE_eTneV1wt_JooBZ_2S1dO8b_0JjVS_Ld9hBbeLt-0KY-Sq9RaVvg02YP7bbn2V5ZCOdURzSk/s4106/DSC03132%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4106" data-original-width="3945" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7W65MLqxf7m6CUxfxsoXDlj9LkvIfouPjXeFFfpcsOsP_K_pSkzZcosNXCDyDx8xe7n-YEeJuwcbxDeBVW16EDGZmGTqwf49bEQ_2RZg8RRJflusE_eTneV1wt_JooBZ_2S1dO8b_0JjVS_Ld9hBbeLt-0KY-Sq9RaVvg02YP7bbn2V5ZCOdURzSk/s320/DSC03132%20edit.jpg" width="307" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Vintage containers:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX9VLzb4DrpT6A09oGOoZHg5Xt0srkQalrhj89bmbt94IhYZ3hjclnqLtNkaRMydq1g7MnXYtn_fR3ZEoypdRMUUUO6Go63Y2wlgEhhzNEZ6-g92l1R3xrgOkPx2pX6ahZyYf5XoYHW7AbYxCFJ6U8G7A4oLDq4jIOzr1lyn3BREbbupEexc1vDzB1/s6000/DSC03143%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX9VLzb4DrpT6A09oGOoZHg5Xt0srkQalrhj89bmbt94IhYZ3hjclnqLtNkaRMydq1g7MnXYtn_fR3ZEoypdRMUUUO6Go63Y2wlgEhhzNEZ6-g92l1R3xrgOkPx2pX6ahZyYf5XoYHW7AbYxCFJ6U8G7A4oLDq4jIOzr1lyn3BREbbupEexc1vDzB1/w400-h266/DSC03143%20edit.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Urns and containers with chicken wire:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHA8xHgF17jCYgzYhVzL5dIUThSFYIzqjeW39V_dE4E3S98W7xFUK4L0b4LAiM9-IQsF7W9i1yfS0UQpG2VIaeLXRDAwvH102Pd4tGh8-AHJKgF6V7VcQK0_mOdsaOwx2u4AfnANAHcAkwV0xSDmKHtm72kn-xRldR481pCibt_-BB8bAQt2znr51f/s4878/DSC03138%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4878" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHA8xHgF17jCYgzYhVzL5dIUThSFYIzqjeW39V_dE4E3S98W7xFUK4L0b4LAiM9-IQsF7W9i1yfS0UQpG2VIaeLXRDAwvH102Pd4tGh8-AHJKgF6V7VcQK0_mOdsaOwx2u4AfnANAHcAkwV0xSDmKHtm72kn-xRldR481pCibt_-BB8bAQt2znr51f/s320/DSC03138%20edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sundries - wire, tape, wreath bases, ribbon etc</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7iwGmPqpqPekwDq8lr5FeK413swhMOAcJ90-o3ucVc-23XwXKQQmTClIr2YGYsF1twZm3Vz_2FJo36W5NSPFhuBpcLhcpHYR2bIwJGfmyNm13DEBMUVlQYtcdy848MIAIWGRtxdWTvsffl_bt5_OTtNxVS4jBzIrK_6IeMg3C7JoJCxJy46JGeDAA/s6000/DSC03144.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7iwGmPqpqPekwDq8lr5FeK413swhMOAcJ90-o3ucVc-23XwXKQQmTClIr2YGYsF1twZm3Vz_2FJo36W5NSPFhuBpcLhcpHYR2bIwJGfmyNm13DEBMUVlQYtcdy848MIAIWGRtxdWTvsffl_bt5_OTtNxVS4jBzIrK_6IeMg3C7JoJCxJy46JGeDAA/s320/DSC03144.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBjzRw6NR73AKdKEtBYFcgYV5AX-kLwZ1K0b1BuoUeza0106t9bhdUiobSaQceysm8oBxAMId01_Syfj1YdDwl82xmAmkMEUnTkpSO_NInnt655vKJMzZTYxc5eYi6ueBFbPaeTQbTwAm7T5zxkPRbqHtlI78IRdDOi0NpXLtwohLkxWsnoXT8n6W2/s5982/DSC03147%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;">Everything will be sold at a low price and all proceeds will be given to a charity called 'Lost Chord'. This is the charity chosen by the Lady Captain at Sickleholme Golf Club this year. It brings live music to people with dementia in care homes and day centres. Interactive musical stimuli are used to engage people, enhance their lives and improve their well being. Why not come and snap up a bargain as well as supporting a good cause.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b>Date and time: Saturday morning, March 18, from about 10.00 to 12.30</b></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b>Place: My house at Millhouses in Sheffield - 47 Springfield Road, S7 2GE. Plenty of parking on the road nearby.</b></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h2></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-70023144608992313212022-09-21T13:03:00.000-07:002022-09-21T13:03:08.417-07:00Bethan's wedding flowers<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs3mj9EwBdXUYZYB1ovhWxNGI5MbCxMsa7HRujyfybgxJSYC_kgVN2yzq2YlKUNQHnGj8_kZYTX1V162FW26HWt77qvKiFQNg_Mp0ojmrb4vCjLhU3LFfKpmYEO9fZqPUwk0W7Bai-HmmDncAkAiEEvZ6XBITz_5MdPLCdEAWkwLnCegrhI-7Ob1yO/s6000/DSC03108%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs3mj9EwBdXUYZYB1ovhWxNGI5MbCxMsa7HRujyfybgxJSYC_kgVN2yzq2YlKUNQHnGj8_kZYTX1V162FW26HWt77qvKiFQNg_Mp0ojmrb4vCjLhU3LFfKpmYEO9fZqPUwk0W7Bai-HmmDncAkAiEEvZ6XBITz_5MdPLCdEAWkwLnCegrhI-7Ob1yO/w400-h266/DSC03108%20edit.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>When our niece, Bethan, said she had a limited budget for her wedding flowers, I assured her she could do her own flowers with a small team and a bit of help. This blog shows how the ideas and skills were developed. Bethan's team would have to learn how to make a hand-tied bouquet because there were eight bridesmaids!<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5rP3Yri3tIxqv9VfrP7RcdZDN5ex40dafZzPD8suSY0Xc6bLz6d_kniyUvGgHjIwXd8ujASWfpPUV2xek8ce-eduOL8nmWx4UoVFHc3HJeAPinfhwEN25jvdO1BUX_lJkwmR7fnYaTjgA5YzH0CwugwOWIgcIAMidzbwSXLzpiBqKbdv4PE_0QXY/s3842/DSC03099%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3842" data-original-width="3842" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5rP3Yri3tIxqv9VfrP7RcdZDN5ex40dafZzPD8suSY0Xc6bLz6d_kniyUvGgHjIwXd8ujASWfpPUV2xek8ce-eduOL8nmWx4UoVFHc3HJeAPinfhwEN25jvdO1BUX_lJkwmR7fnYaTjgA5YzH0CwugwOWIgcIAMidzbwSXLzpiBqKbdv4PE_0QXY/s320/DSC03099%20edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Then the idea we developed for the table centres was to use dark glass (mainly beer bottles and marmite jars) which would be placed on wooden slices. Here is the first mock up (using bread boards to stand in for rustic wooden slices):<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL6EW87NnZ4xXZci42eKxTPiIkdcL9a7wZsKezKvukHpe9GmISHO02uIBv1NBY_5mXaDHwtjPpqNHxaAEDCAVlWNn6jJgo7TxyyO4gyMEI4AOvml7hLtwHcmMi9ygDs4vyM4AvueieHn_A7G3sUK4dF6hPyNIPyEncsibGCFjqFO1y69MHrI8SyBN7/s4422/DSC03090%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4422" data-original-width="3741" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL6EW87NnZ4xXZci42eKxTPiIkdcL9a7wZsKezKvukHpe9GmISHO02uIBv1NBY_5mXaDHwtjPpqNHxaAEDCAVlWNn6jJgo7TxyyO4gyMEI4AOvml7hLtwHcmMi9ygDs4vyM4AvueieHn_A7G3sUK4dF6hPyNIPyEncsibGCFjqFO1y69MHrI8SyBN7/s320/DSC03090%20edit.jpg" width="271" /></a></div>Then Bethan, Jill, her mum, and her brother's girlfriend, Maebh, came to a workshop with me. We had a great day and a lot of laughs:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDPcaqM3c4DdPHFanbAyLveir7BeXWAtj1y6VSU6jLTdpH3As9M0RBheufJaVqL0Q3zbUP7cBJCc7kN95BkY0aRsVlfZOG5cGsrTn49_jGtJ-2m_TFe49GBOYB4WBhfK53UxF6d2AAukjg_W3VJHAsb2vyVIylLd_Kpa8rL1lgzg9xymNOZQ7C8Ey/s1584/IMG-20220702-WA0001%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1095" data-original-width="1584" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDPcaqM3c4DdPHFanbAyLveir7BeXWAtj1y6VSU6jLTdpH3As9M0RBheufJaVqL0Q3zbUP7cBJCc7kN95BkY0aRsVlfZOG5cGsrTn49_jGtJ-2m_TFe49GBOYB4WBhfK53UxF6d2AAukjg_W3VJHAsb2vyVIylLd_Kpa8rL1lgzg9xymNOZQ7C8Ey/s320/IMG-20220702-WA0001%20edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoV-y-o3FOPMuvZOGb-S59LLdFmvTMorXROLtoz4e3m0iqxiYuVGbwlG0Ta1Ek2IRHhCX9fY7gTWScLhMcmbJ_gYeBcgXcKO6G5mW8zWdn-fqE-CYiChCCSMnYzVrtv6Svdwhpu43K-9fXvzJ6dfmftTb8HMbuxPSkPuAaZsg9WlkkbNQtmNwwFuBp/s1600/IMG-20220702-WA0002%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoV-y-o3FOPMuvZOGb-S59LLdFmvTMorXROLtoz4e3m0iqxiYuVGbwlG0Ta1Ek2IRHhCX9fY7gTWScLhMcmbJ_gYeBcgXcKO6G5mW8zWdn-fqE-CYiChCCSMnYzVrtv6Svdwhpu43K-9fXvzJ6dfmftTb8HMbuxPSkPuAaZsg9WlkkbNQtmNwwFuBp/s320/IMG-20220702-WA0002%20edit.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Everyone mastered the skill of hand-tying. Hurrah!:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix_SxWjS7tRWX-5J5HA8tCgfD008mvfW4Cssa8RF1uh4E7VttYSAnjoVu8NhX-zVG-BqGk4gfNkXCkkHcOIKBXUjF9Drv4xZHqkqOkFaPF4TEOT_Tvqdf52sCj7Y71BivuNnFwnoAcMKyr5Cc9MDxyPBIqO1IXKQbh2djSldI6ATcv4TDOByJiVjrI/s1600/IMG-20220702-WA0003%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix_SxWjS7tRWX-5J5HA8tCgfD008mvfW4Cssa8RF1uh4E7VttYSAnjoVu8NhX-zVG-BqGk4gfNkXCkkHcOIKBXUjF9Drv4xZHqkqOkFaPF4TEOT_Tvqdf52sCj7Y71BivuNnFwnoAcMKyr5Cc9MDxyPBIqO1IXKQbh2djSldI6ATcv4TDOByJiVjrI/s320/IMG-20220702-WA0003%20edit.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKeuGZdv-GlmKSuczYjtTlo9_eBVTCbD2opt_IMmpF5XelhTnhaUadhAtex1t-d6ZQZNTqfiebIXd5GEwj1_ZVXWMGYwr59EKIeyJN8UylY1c9EPZOe3n7hbAVt2-_egyG23ynqh8izzYV1gzOXCmHLNmTiq1Sfj6QbRaoed5Xe-bZYvxurMWKsZu-/s1600/IMG-20220702-WA0004%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKeuGZdv-GlmKSuczYjtTlo9_eBVTCbD2opt_IMmpF5XelhTnhaUadhAtex1t-d6ZQZNTqfiebIXd5GEwj1_ZVXWMGYwr59EKIeyJN8UylY1c9EPZOe3n7hbAVt2-_egyG23ynqh8izzYV1gzOXCmHLNmTiq1Sfj6QbRaoed5Xe-bZYvxurMWKsZu-/s320/IMG-20220702-WA0004%20edit.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlj7AI39ClY5BXCyRQBdvRsqBk2L_veI7hazlI4Dw_vyCOG0UEZdo0ryhU32D77oBXrBncPtE847lVNcmsoandaoA2hPbbFS93qGMchE8ueJV7r3a5dYkbjmDxvY6hE7HMzTwnGgE14pQIkvyBRB6ZkcEpwyxiYZkew-5bu_Na3VeiuPE1qqYX2TyU/s1478/IMG-20220702-WA0000%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1478" data-original-width="1122" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlj7AI39ClY5BXCyRQBdvRsqBk2L_veI7hazlI4Dw_vyCOG0UEZdo0ryhU32D77oBXrBncPtE847lVNcmsoandaoA2hPbbFS93qGMchE8ueJV7r3a5dYkbjmDxvY6hE7HMzTwnGgE14pQIkvyBRB6ZkcEpwyxiYZkew-5bu_Na3VeiuPE1qqYX2TyU/s320/IMG-20220702-WA0000%20edit.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxAKhMM1o1c___uV_-12TFBUc6CGuLjCRQGwjkJNluk6hEfBmGXHDMRP7CbR_s72yLWXlZXDRiNZVcgRMqnrBFCfNp1mIJPWr2O6qdkmRjy0NHl5ZIpS82ylV4F2EnkPDvxMNVw0Lxnzi5_xP9nsLN4iKL7eQie1R78Uu1fWm1LY9qFJv28Bu82Itt/s1425/IMG-20220702-WA0007%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1425" data-original-width="1119" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxAKhMM1o1c___uV_-12TFBUc6CGuLjCRQGwjkJNluk6hEfBmGXHDMRP7CbR_s72yLWXlZXDRiNZVcgRMqnrBFCfNp1mIJPWr2O6qdkmRjy0NHl5ZIpS82ylV4F2EnkPDvxMNVw0Lxnzi5_xP9nsLN4iKL7eQie1R78Uu1fWm1LY9qFJv28Bu82Itt/s320/IMG-20220702-WA0007%20edit.jpg" width="251" /></a></div>And the table centres worked well too, especially when they included Bethan's lanterns (she makes these herself):<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjs8ZeJLFJMH60BoLlkSPPkI_LKwqzb875wK9LxYIMX-QUi2SfYGPxLeHdrtKYrpFya9KToUxQkK8vLngX6XKKkueAwPPBuAgVa4ZaJIfQ3gikNuEAJXWbH8ahHbl1QEJM7P7y50ay5c_FB5FwGVVPJQ6INP9vcOr7hjYikbMFQ0TtIVlTqT870o5/s1598/IMG-20220702-WA0009%20(1)%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1598" data-original-width="885" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjs8ZeJLFJMH60BoLlkSPPkI_LKwqzb875wK9LxYIMX-QUi2SfYGPxLeHdrtKYrpFya9KToUxQkK8vLngX6XKKkueAwPPBuAgVa4ZaJIfQ3gikNuEAJXWbH8ahHbl1QEJM7P7y50ay5c_FB5FwGVVPJQ6INP9vcOr7hjYikbMFQ0TtIVlTqT870o5/s320/IMG-20220702-WA0009%20(1)%20edit.jpg" width="177" /></a></div>Then we had to think a bit about the kinds of flowers that would fit with Bethan's colour scheme of white, green and copper. I tried out roses, alstroemeria, gypsophila and chrysanthemums, with plenty of foliage, and also added a bit of contrasting blue (sea holly and lavender). Lovely, and very fitting for a September wedding:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrMfceoXucu7aGlo1D5SsAb-Z3n0sLCiMETzMzigYuSTyfW1fdnCQI1VLJX-zP_jy8fGuwkx8b9ky-PeQsJLX7bJL8LbjecqheDjQcK3S3tXJqVjbC80glG0m3QKh7Q5u3rA1uCnKwRCRcSK3ASAmJpzF0l6yIjwp3-SK20s_3UZr4iiYUf4t3DLf7/s4000/DSC03107%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="4000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrMfceoXucu7aGlo1D5SsAb-Z3n0sLCiMETzMzigYuSTyfW1fdnCQI1VLJX-zP_jy8fGuwkx8b9ky-PeQsJLX7bJL8LbjecqheDjQcK3S3tXJqVjbC80glG0m3QKh7Q5u3rA1uCnKwRCRcSK3ASAmJpzF0l6yIjwp3-SK20s_3UZr4iiYUf4t3DLf7/s320/DSC03107%20edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Bethan bought her wedding flowers from the Liverpool flower market and they were driven to the venue the day before the wedding. Then the team got to work. The brilliant thing was lots of other wedding guests, who were at the venue the day before, helped out with the table centres, and with big jugs of sunflowers which were scattered around the venue. Everybody was really pleased to have a hand in the flower preparations. The core team were outstanding in making multiple, beautiful bouquets. Here is Bethan with hers:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLPu6o0GOxibWzFKfpASmth86G5LFm5_xawWP9Eo97-tPYSeSvXd2_k6DNy3eFKvQ5P2rdxA2okcBfPBX-iRfLzVZhd8qCi_0wIkoKIdXTYhPuEFFxWw8IfrBgKsjrV7ht2AAWb0QUTkft5bhHNsIPTXX5_3vGZwbKs0_y3NR3nNTSuJxjwIJbxV3N/s1870/20220903_152102%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1870" data-original-width="1591" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLPu6o0GOxibWzFKfpASmth86G5LFm5_xawWP9Eo97-tPYSeSvXd2_k6DNy3eFKvQ5P2rdxA2okcBfPBX-iRfLzVZhd8qCi_0wIkoKIdXTYhPuEFFxWw8IfrBgKsjrV7ht2AAWb0QUTkft5bhHNsIPTXX5_3vGZwbKs0_y3NR3nNTSuJxjwIJbxV3N/s320/20220903_152102%20edit.jpg" width="272" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimlrf_92qDnTXbJNBLrRqGbzIRtk7sb1N38tI6AwYIW2MV45r3AmuYg-pd34SYeUNW6TBwkXc1Mx2SIoW8iwj4DkKO9Y_OJgidVYN5530r_GI4gsOF3080NE23aHOGXi8PDJsV3Z8BXdXnfWATr5GhEwGM4D818RAmguMDsM0I7lMWgbcdi-wR2U_I/s2292/20220903_152208%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2088" data-original-width="2292" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimlrf_92qDnTXbJNBLrRqGbzIRtk7sb1N38tI6AwYIW2MV45r3AmuYg-pd34SYeUNW6TBwkXc1Mx2SIoW8iwj4DkKO9Y_OJgidVYN5530r_GI4gsOF3080NE23aHOGXi8PDJsV3Z8BXdXnfWATr5GhEwGM4D818RAmguMDsM0I7lMWgbcdi-wR2U_I/s320/20220903_152208%20edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>And a selection of bridesmaids:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQtXY_y079VjkhU3SzrnMQOv-lcCH6_hUWMXZLHnhLLyVyw6NBwxbBgNxT61KnUy6psGnyeB7IykYOAVbm_xnITGyNMK0JnXRnpL-reV1-xpFk4sM4BE6gcn_xZ5YRZXX7IbKW1wTpkrKRl5mDxDaP9AMEamF2W1eXThmsJNuC-3Mah7hS8Uy9f5I/s1208/20220903_152118%20edit%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="1208" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQtXY_y079VjkhU3SzrnMQOv-lcCH6_hUWMXZLHnhLLyVyw6NBwxbBgNxT61KnUy6psGnyeB7IykYOAVbm_xnITGyNMK0JnXRnpL-reV1-xpFk4sM4BE6gcn_xZ5YRZXX7IbKW1wTpkrKRl5mDxDaP9AMEamF2W1eXThmsJNuC-3Mah7hS8Uy9f5I/s320/20220903_152118%20edit%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSxuDtc6Nf8IJRGg9cjsH9CjQY_lgYhh6zbaVsTb5_kSBhLe7n5WZS9EIpVjJ_DbHoAb9AeskRQJB09z9ldmTanmvW1QOMdWpZDvQ6rqfZHMphiBxKaz00vUOjd1nsdeY29q5Py5pG3kHjpllHx53WmuCikmvUlQ6EOPCfiuB8NTBUjwKSiaP-v3hL/s2406/20220903_152201%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2406" data-original-width="2126" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSxuDtc6Nf8IJRGg9cjsH9CjQY_lgYhh6zbaVsTb5_kSBhLe7n5WZS9EIpVjJ_DbHoAb9AeskRQJB09z9ldmTanmvW1QOMdWpZDvQ6rqfZHMphiBxKaz00vUOjd1nsdeY29q5Py5pG3kHjpllHx53WmuCikmvUlQ6EOPCfiuB8NTBUjwKSiaP-v3hL/s320/20220903_152201%20edit.jpg" width="283" /></a></div>These pictures give a sense of the flowers in the venue:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtxxiTrL5YzdSgCMPG-dt4zprJ4jkkib1y1OOXgEx6ZZa_myvvr8Fwn4xSc-XR_lIy-CsKa3svnQTgSr-1oKl9zZKAVTgvyNxjpFPfU6hjjabftGMaaUP_nNqJZMWfvthkE694VNQ1rHBWLERO3St1U3Bh3Tc20DrP_eknzbb6_AwkBxBFraIgzpoF/s3264/20220903_133021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtxxiTrL5YzdSgCMPG-dt4zprJ4jkkib1y1OOXgEx6ZZa_myvvr8Fwn4xSc-XR_lIy-CsKa3svnQTgSr-1oKl9zZKAVTgvyNxjpFPfU6hjjabftGMaaUP_nNqJZMWfvthkE694VNQ1rHBWLERO3St1U3Bh3Tc20DrP_eknzbb6_AwkBxBFraIgzpoF/s320/20220903_133021.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCweuffAEbKFdDWgzy5QcB7-5X6-i7H55Mt9ZSGgroXQfaBE5jEyyNt0s6I-nS-F84EyoxD8jOwaHVeMLUJoczi89cAYN83VFyij8qR0503mUzUmObgH-PB4hYMf9lOJNo-KxNofjs0KLr33j0EgZ-5o-naORKUIr_iwO5LOb5wLztCtNuvsMUsQyI/s3083/20220903_132949%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3083" data-original-width="1950" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCweuffAEbKFdDWgzy5QcB7-5X6-i7H55Mt9ZSGgroXQfaBE5jEyyNt0s6I-nS-F84EyoxD8jOwaHVeMLUJoczi89cAYN83VFyij8qR0503mUzUmObgH-PB4hYMf9lOJNo-KxNofjs0KLr33j0EgZ-5o-naORKUIr_iwO5LOb5wLztCtNuvsMUsQyI/s320/20220903_132949%20edit.jpg" width="202" /></a></div>Finally, here is the entire wedding party - including the men with the buttonholes which the team also made. This shows what a fantastic job everyone did. The flowers looked wonderful and added something truly lovely to a very, very happy day. Congratulations Jon and Bethan!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifgoXpGS9g49C4A8f98pF7cuIdshVsjXQta8niAO2BqWt9b7jSHfCKoWCmVMN2YgdyKF9XsPKN-BVhzeGiMVLcfzFp1S0CBwVvYEhkcBWrFBoJWBMiJoJjaSV5pUIeYq3BR0v9BNm0TwV_TwWvOApPIT1vszUYC99UXTad7bRIUPkkvT-et9dA_BJP/s2898/20220903_152041%20edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1282" data-original-width="2898" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifgoXpGS9g49C4A8f98pF7cuIdshVsjXQta8niAO2BqWt9b7jSHfCKoWCmVMN2YgdyKF9XsPKN-BVhzeGiMVLcfzFp1S0CBwVvYEhkcBWrFBoJWBMiJoJjaSV5pUIeYq3BR0v9BNm0TwV_TwWvOApPIT1vszUYC99UXTad7bRIUPkkvT-et9dA_BJP/w640-h285/20220903_152041%20edit.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-60719348619668381012022-01-04T12:22:00.000-08:002022-01-04T12:22:15.608-08:00Looking back on 2021<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjTdOeizpnmum4_m1uPrm8e0U8SviFR18FIY-7hvfMDmtncDnsFd-A5FL-vMlL4xsETAVZhDXf61fzxSgk9a2ywbigbnCnSBc0GpnbF2V47UWbjLStdZNUgaNlhEcNDSKWexvDFAUe956JuLahGFLZq4yhRCSfZtKFQtxzlXbbCyNDsC_HNugWNa-4=s2331" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1717" data-original-width="2331" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjTdOeizpnmum4_m1uPrm8e0U8SviFR18FIY-7hvfMDmtncDnsFd-A5FL-vMlL4xsETAVZhDXf61fzxSgk9a2ywbigbnCnSBc0GpnbF2V47UWbjLStdZNUgaNlhEcNDSKWexvDFAUe956JuLahGFLZq4yhRCSfZtKFQtxzlXbbCyNDsC_HNugWNa-4=w400-h295" width="400" /></a></div>Last year it snowed in January. As well as snow, this is the month for reflection on the past year. When I look back I realise I didn`t post a single blog in 2021. It was a challenging year for all of us, starting with another lockdown. I used the enforced isolation to follow Este MacLeod's brilliant on-line art course, Imaginarium. A lot of the course used organic inspiration, like this cactus and these mushrooms: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhF3kYj4k1GsSqhsve9K3u03POHFXFJixG9igmp9dLRejV-SVxb02E2L-85x7Ar8e-g4kSAGwWFHpg6TAZtP-M8zKge0rgX-h_32DPydqIA6FXTejZhT0xasfa8tcalMHw2QWgXmZ9IMHGLL7UFzeQgqzLt3AkmoLmhYbhNBNfzJx2Dv6SrWjBAaMsx=s1651" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1651" data-original-width="1275" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhF3kYj4k1GsSqhsve9K3u03POHFXFJixG9igmp9dLRejV-SVxb02E2L-85x7Ar8e-g4kSAGwWFHpg6TAZtP-M8zKge0rgX-h_32DPydqIA6FXTejZhT0xasfa8tcalMHw2QWgXmZ9IMHGLL7UFzeQgqzLt3AkmoLmhYbhNBNfzJx2Dv6SrWjBAaMsx=s320" width="247" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZTuFNjrs_26UwDPJ9cJVbHJPmJNDbzq9-VDdOtYVMCOcPU886ZDhxr1RYt6n8rTX7EeAxTXHlJCdbqCMESX0CSehDRu5DKOJvBn8JOAmxrF7Oqrzr-5jus_wUzReFuD0QvUtXF4Yrvsi_4Yuh0vZfhcLyBWv3BbsvadPuoLH5DQ7Ub57Nhp4HB0hr=s1080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZTuFNjrs_26UwDPJ9cJVbHJPmJNDbzq9-VDdOtYVMCOcPU886ZDhxr1RYt6n8rTX7EeAxTXHlJCdbqCMESX0CSehDRu5DKOJvBn8JOAmxrF7Oqrzr-5jus_wUzReFuD0QvUtXF4Yrvsi_4Yuh0vZfhcLyBWv3BbsvadPuoLH5DQ7Ub57Nhp4HB0hr=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></div>Then I painted a terrarium to house the mushrooms!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhn076n-jk-997wWGfpEl6p5lhnX4qx9EsDNerCbzmWSb3PcJ5gu-aqFym-LBDNYAJhfa4PQXVo9_OavVK9JkjC68IO-yje1nysNhrlWlEaLgt_AD4k2k3GxR_3KPZQHKlr-lE0mhc5NMipk3cFZLJ6Op2FCkQv6dp321OYdVsoulgimqBQVjSreUF5=s2422" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2422" data-original-width="1690" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhn076n-jk-997wWGfpEl6p5lhnX4qx9EsDNerCbzmWSb3PcJ5gu-aqFym-LBDNYAJhfa4PQXVo9_OavVK9JkjC68IO-yje1nysNhrlWlEaLgt_AD4k2k3GxR_3KPZQHKlr-lE0mhc5NMipk3cFZLJ6Op2FCkQv6dp321OYdVsoulgimqBQVjSreUF5=s320" width="223" /></a></div>As my final piece for the course I painted this imaginary vase of flowers.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0d5qNbRBtnmPBMDPMGIbNSiCnKVPorDc1RNANHi5MRFbx8lYrYwsBBGVzzyd-3qHJamY8jWFVhsSevxtiv0dvckGWbC9os08MryBUjpoKStOOkyLkAZH-l7f3XzzQHXpYH0AEiUY0vrv_14Dn3bjZD5yMyLU525OdzHbv9JoRHNKmUiKi2zXpJZ3g=s2241" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2241" data-original-width="2241" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0d5qNbRBtnmPBMDPMGIbNSiCnKVPorDc1RNANHi5MRFbx8lYrYwsBBGVzzyd-3qHJamY8jWFVhsSevxtiv0dvckGWbC9os08MryBUjpoKStOOkyLkAZH-l7f3XzzQHXpYH0AEiUY0vrv_14Dn3bjZD5yMyLU525OdzHbv9JoRHNKmUiKi2zXpJZ3g=s320" width="320" /></a></div>So, it was a good, creative start. I also got excited about the early flowers which appeared in the garden in February.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKq_fTpBG5L2iTntE-uzCaOqurD6WdBz5qmIjJDkhfGmsBR-gSF5pQGWbXWFNNubPVY-IAi5Y1ZsrGnsy30VI0UaSlXWQ19mVGQ4Y3mB-nnTGzg_dQNtb9manfjcEkobd4eCLwAOEO2lIib4mxn5Q1nP_fxtEZtbizwi9sDIwSeq4YMw4R6gLKpTtS=s1414" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1414" data-original-width="1414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKq_fTpBG5L2iTntE-uzCaOqurD6WdBz5qmIjJDkhfGmsBR-gSF5pQGWbXWFNNubPVY-IAi5Y1ZsrGnsy30VI0UaSlXWQ19mVGQ4Y3mB-nnTGzg_dQNtb9manfjcEkobd4eCLwAOEO2lIib4mxn5Q1nP_fxtEZtbizwi9sDIwSeq4YMw4R6gLKpTtS=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdcN4RMrG5b5x-ZKIupu66ZDE_mARq4ZEJU0U-8sQVdUNPGtztmxuoewbqQO73MjmAFY-6YFBkQuY0jPcdFWOu1dSPf6kttXT3UFplUn8tDMWG1wVBRhdyG3i15Gf6Ailxd6GkKUO-5OcFj6JvdRUo0E1HdFZe6bwxM005IcgMv_ZzxWxy4iyJEaeH=s1414" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1414" data-original-width="1414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdcN4RMrG5b5x-ZKIupu66ZDE_mARq4ZEJU0U-8sQVdUNPGtztmxuoewbqQO73MjmAFY-6YFBkQuY0jPcdFWOu1dSPf6kttXT3UFplUn8tDMWG1wVBRhdyG3i15Gf6Ailxd6GkKUO-5OcFj6JvdRUo0E1HdFZe6bwxM005IcgMv_ZzxWxy4iyJEaeH=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6d8LIaqqhPOgFIfXEg85wmn8IA0Ar5BfLE5o6c3xidwIFViRVpJX6_bEhEm3X4TnvgNnTlWutcyAghCh6JopzXtv9QTfxqfny-F1jYwEr58KXQc75fRDyU_NOI_dsoDFa9KXXYFZ4Pd2bZ3_MHRT2kCbk5hNYyTv38kQnN-2P6fugmtf1CrmA-vJ2=s1414" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1414" data-original-width="1414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6d8LIaqqhPOgFIfXEg85wmn8IA0Ar5BfLE5o6c3xidwIFViRVpJX6_bEhEm3X4TnvgNnTlWutcyAghCh6JopzXtv9QTfxqfny-F1jYwEr58KXQc75fRDyU_NOI_dsoDFa9KXXYFZ4Pd2bZ3_MHRT2kCbk5hNYyTv38kQnN-2P6fugmtf1CrmA-vJ2=s320" width="320" /></a></div>But later in February everything creative ground to a halt when my father had a catastrophic fall. He was hospitalised for a long time and finally returned home in April in a bedbound state. He died in September. Here he is in the good times, a force of nature.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXfiQjhBdBzyg-mBlq0uu9FeCezNNiroY4xC1_PV36ct9DYZnQPhP94KTU46P2aomeNVxMrorE58qfsKfSmGVXNsKu3HxSfeYX_yKr3ZE7IrZD10e7qYzbvJNjZVGfK4GW8yx4fSpRr9Fgyr_LuHkL1uIu5UrG8T6YOZlj0UWy59UaNHxqMwrZVFS8=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXfiQjhBdBzyg-mBlq0uu9FeCezNNiroY4xC1_PV36ct9DYZnQPhP94KTU46P2aomeNVxMrorE58qfsKfSmGVXNsKu3HxSfeYX_yKr3ZE7IrZD10e7qYzbvJNjZVGfK4GW8yx4fSpRr9Fgyr_LuHkL1uIu5UrG8T6YOZlj0UWy59UaNHxqMwrZVFS8=s320" width="240" /></a></div>Even though Dad had a team of professional carers to look after him, much of my emotional energy was taken up with supporting him and it gave me a lot of insight to how draining it is to be a long-term carer. Although the tulips came up as usual in the spring, this is the only picture I took of them:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiayOSnD-LlZstNnVfUo9vdxssujMAeoC5JsjRiiw_ZDEpzXqs3OYPl_FPyj8C0zugnk4C9N4M34G9aJy56fTZRkgo-SQNuavVGnwW99h-TuWyEVJYmyeehIgHBaT_PXEFCj114mZpfAbJYGb-Rvyiv_Hs_AzHMPPPc3gdPw4uNMnrdyOnNy6J7N1ef=s3982" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3982" data-original-width="3982" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiayOSnD-LlZstNnVfUo9vdxssujMAeoC5JsjRiiw_ZDEpzXqs3OYPl_FPyj8C0zugnk4C9N4M34G9aJy56fTZRkgo-SQNuavVGnwW99h-TuWyEVJYmyeehIgHBaT_PXEFCj114mZpfAbJYGb-Rvyiv_Hs_AzHMPPPc3gdPw4uNMnrdyOnNy6J7N1ef=s320" width="320" /></a></div>I have searched through my galleries, but this is the last picture of flowers that I took throughout the year. Even when I arranged the flowers for Dad's coffin, I didn`t have the heart, or the inclination, to take a photograph of them. I am so pleased that Jessie loves flowers and she kept our joint instagram account (<a href="http://instagram.com/just.add.flowers" target="_blank">just.add.flowers</a>) alive all year. She is also encouraging Cormac (already 2 and three quarters!) to see things that grow and to forage about in parks and in the garden. This little collection of autumnal offerings (with Tiger!) can`t help but make me smile.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGAWTibMNcKlFcZ9c4Wo8iKpC2DjMoNK_Piuuaw7HUc76M6ma1wNNKXO2h8R0f7BbGtPWMBQ1_KImAqVujQZGVGf6V4Sa5F7eZoGkTA3iEwrokk_Jh5z3k7yF-I4aIq8B3uONHVhGtuCQH-31EkMAVhJiqC3Bjq0oDJ0bnaoUP6AgZwRjpuRlAsCGD=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGAWTibMNcKlFcZ9c4Wo8iKpC2DjMoNK_Piuuaw7HUc76M6ma1wNNKXO2h8R0f7BbGtPWMBQ1_KImAqVujQZGVGf6V4Sa5F7eZoGkTA3iEwrokk_Jh5z3k7yF-I4aIq8B3uONHVhGtuCQH-31EkMAVhJiqC3Bjq0oDJ0bnaoUP6AgZwRjpuRlAsCGD=s320" width="240" /></a></div>I am really hoping that 2022 will be better and that some creative energy and some inspiration will return to me.<div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Happy New Year to you all. May 2022 bring everything you hope for</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><div><br /></div></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-12902267787113264252020-12-18T07:26:00.000-08:002020-12-18T07:26:17.884-08:00Classy green Christmas wreath<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtN3az_9jLbr5ATemHzBzeWYBA5lvfPw-MpeKOPHO9N5-75mzTWfE0qCPxygstYp9cQ6AxVFa3Dl4C6EfFUpQQXCSPy83bAyhlUF8d7y-8fWnxZj2_lxo04EiPfSjPTv3D6uy5ATq8y_U/s2048/DSC02939+edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtN3az_9jLbr5ATemHzBzeWYBA5lvfPw-MpeKOPHO9N5-75mzTWfE0qCPxygstYp9cQ6AxVFa3Dl4C6EfFUpQQXCSPy83bAyhlUF8d7y-8fWnxZj2_lxo04EiPfSjPTv3D6uy5ATq8y_U/w400-h266/DSC02939+edit.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Happy Christmas everyone. Tomorrow is the Saturday before Christmas and usually I would be running a wreath workshop on this day. Alas, no workshops this year. Instead, I set myself the task of making a foliage wreath only out of the plants and trees growing in our garden. I was not planning to use a bought wire base, nor any moss or straw, nor any bling or dried materials. I wanted a classy, green wreath. It was something of a learning process and I am going to set out the stages I followed so you can do it yourself if you wish. The only item, other than foliage, which is essential is reel wire (see below for details). Beginning with the raw materials:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6FsDVJ-0WLkGw1pOo2DoHH8wYrls12Tuvpuvw6y_4GLOdmJ49p6phhEb8V47r0_EYKAa0TfzmbofBXBpRWixj_6C9OAcvZv-AYjE5OJhQ7c_6bWfOmKVPm7GWgIFVcc5qh5wdU5MCLx8/s2048/DSC02903+edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6FsDVJ-0WLkGw1pOo2DoHH8wYrls12Tuvpuvw6y_4GLOdmJ49p6phhEb8V47r0_EYKAa0TfzmbofBXBpRWixj_6C9OAcvZv-AYjE5OJhQ7c_6bWfOmKVPm7GWgIFVcc5qh5wdU5MCLx8/s320/DSC02903+edit.jpg" /></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-2xQhOLT9cu4ctAdwAdZxtFMv6qn2rTGdKbfWPcLsJ5QBn0jMWLuLg44z0EGe42JRdX6AD3cT0dlv9-6dtMin4qVSOVl7Rf5QjS2VE40MPLrOGcEFAQHYEcxxM7reoFvjTkh2dAaA27I/s6000/DSC02905.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-2xQhOLT9cu4ctAdwAdZxtFMv6qn2rTGdKbfWPcLsJ5QBn0jMWLuLg44z0EGe42JRdX6AD3cT0dlv9-6dtMin4qVSOVl7Rf5QjS2VE40MPLrOGcEFAQHYEcxxM7reoFvjTkh2dAaA27I/s320/DSC02905.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLD8yHn3XdRlJFNjT3QV8QbHSNiMc3IN5X8zTR15_Dv3ht66JidZqUuhqQvMIRFXnDFPF8rIQ3cq87bhSiHpNA9el4eNXgu3D0cl_NTS9HlfLFnsQH-4cF-NrYxeoPsFkcnwKOjsEc_c/s2048/DSC02901+edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLD8yHn3XdRlJFNjT3QV8QbHSNiMc3IN5X8zTR15_Dv3ht66JidZqUuhqQvMIRFXnDFPF8rIQ3cq87bhSiHpNA9el4eNXgu3D0cl_NTS9HlfLFnsQH-4cF-NrYxeoPsFkcnwKOjsEc_c/s320/DSC02901+edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First of all I cut some branches for making the base - willow or vine is generally recommended, but neither of these grow in our garden, The branches need to be reasonably long (about 2-3 feet) and pliable. I decided to try three different possibilities - cotoneaster, lemon verbena and fuchsia. Then I needed some evergreen foliage - I chose rosemary (gorgeous smell), choisya, ivy, box and a spruce-like shrub we have growing (a bit out of control now!). It needed far more of everything than I thought. You will see the quantities as I go through the process below. I started by stripping the foliage off the branches:</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg595BDx_oK-kJjvjmhPvBEMDKj58c1c5yAzMEDPr6az_Ef4x77ON925TGVZKCdXDdOTloHThl654qgHZq96ilPUBdPMJw3zYrAyHhZ1Ys0RWzlJnoiOW-uiSa8Yafu-tuAaiPmxXNBK3A/s2048/DSC02908+edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg595BDx_oK-kJjvjmhPvBEMDKj58c1c5yAzMEDPr6az_Ef4x77ON925TGVZKCdXDdOTloHThl654qgHZq96ilPUBdPMJw3zYrAyHhZ1Ys0RWzlJnoiOW-uiSa8Yafu-tuAaiPmxXNBK3A/s320/DSC02908+edit.jpg" /></a></div>I then bent the branches into a circle, wrapping the branches around each other and roughly weaving them together. The fuchsia was useless - it didn`t have enough bend in it and just snapped. The cotoneaster was by far the best - pliable and robust at the same time. The lemon verbena smelled wonderful, but its branches were a bit brittle. I managed to incorporate some of it, just for the fragrance. I aimed to make (and managed it!) a base of about 12 inches diameter. It needed at least 12 branches - here it is:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA-in5KFu0nkfvgR-GVdGEd15sXfIvp0-P2vmYyVmQcEqvZyLLactGPYdsSfIhkQUuIuWdh5gw15mkqteqe0xrq5dWkNsUkIsa_J6Pf76ZUNaXJi-GVt_jca7IbLAue1T0zdUypX1xP10/s2048/DSC02913+edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA-in5KFu0nkfvgR-GVdGEd15sXfIvp0-P2vmYyVmQcEqvZyLLactGPYdsSfIhkQUuIuWdh5gw15mkqteqe0xrq5dWkNsUkIsa_J6Pf76ZUNaXJi-GVt_jca7IbLAue1T0zdUypX1xP10/s320/DSC02913+edit.jpg" /></a></div>The next stage is to make lots of bunches of mixed foliage. Each bunch needs to be about the same length and have roughly the same amount of material in it. I used 2-3 pieces of ivy, 2-3 pieces of rosemary, 2-3 pieces of spruce, one piece of choisya and one short piece of box. I made the bunches so that there were two short pieces on the left side which would be the inner part of the wreath. I wasn`t quite sure how many bunches I would need, so I made about 6 and then decided how many more I would need once I had attached these. In the end I used 12 bunches. I like to tie my bunches together with a soft florist's wire which is wrapped in a kind of raffia. Here is an example of a bunch - you can see the shorter pieces of spruce and box on the inside left:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlMyfMAFwAl9AJk0hc122bqxMV0L1gmaz0oPflkufOqZjCTWPl-pWDSg-xbe1ecINYIDsLJEgAO88HyVEm3IFq3XNXDlL0ABvVHWV4yoBv0RJgI28ut56nemxDDBkhDhDNIZVYP0KAeKY/s2048/DSC02919+edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlMyfMAFwAl9AJk0hc122bqxMV0L1gmaz0oPflkufOqZjCTWPl-pWDSg-xbe1ecINYIDsLJEgAO88HyVEm3IFq3XNXDlL0ABvVHWV4yoBv0RJgI28ut56nemxDDBkhDhDNIZVYP0KAeKY/s320/DSC02919+edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The next stage is to attach the reel wire to the base. You can buy reel wire from Sarah Raven, Amazon or any florist wholesaler. If you live in Sheffield, I will give you some.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_OZUXgFhU_J7EIz6P-2QGV0sgQByH7kDR2WjNUsU1SCIo7IGyvjfc92ycVEjrjSKke4qAaw_uq1WHNNIgsGUDutIqjhxzZRv0rX6ER46I5XNPVENHhPNKjcWYGLDtu2MaJawVjZBZ9O4/s6000/DSC02922.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_OZUXgFhU_J7EIz6P-2QGV0sgQByH7kDR2WjNUsU1SCIo7IGyvjfc92ycVEjrjSKke4qAaw_uq1WHNNIgsGUDutIqjhxzZRv0rX6ER46I5XNPVENHhPNKjcWYGLDtu2MaJawVjZBZ9O4/s320/DSC02922.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Next you lay your first bunch on the base and wrap the wire around the neck of the bunch and the base 2-3 times, keeping those short stems on the inside of the wreath. You need to pull the wire quite tightly to hold the bunch in place. Like this:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYeCN2mRr2WTPLK3APtAB7StiVJ0bBpDs-lmmDnnoEMlto8he1eEikdUDx8zthmZ7Nx0_Nz_WF9lpTSviFuv_D5eQSiylyvgl0OJL_bsi9IWT2nbjO70HKyxy8ZHOk601EShyJOJZkppc/s2048/DSC02918+edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYeCN2mRr2WTPLK3APtAB7StiVJ0bBpDs-lmmDnnoEMlto8he1eEikdUDx8zthmZ7Nx0_Nz_WF9lpTSviFuv_D5eQSiylyvgl0OJL_bsi9IWT2nbjO70HKyxy8ZHOk601EShyJOJZkppc/s320/DSC02918+edit.jpg" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLZC54nO31RyJOwM1_8LtKJrqzfcQn6sFlRkavcUvrn3gB3G7oYI2wC9MeYp1X1hxZlfKnYw6OwzpRqAjdh0-el_ByzUUp9twUop_DdcY9cx34v2xYl2z-C9FmCwdrKisAe7ODzzKMraw/s2048/DSC02925+edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLZC54nO31RyJOwM1_8LtKJrqzfcQn6sFlRkavcUvrn3gB3G7oYI2wC9MeYp1X1hxZlfKnYw6OwzpRqAjdh0-el_ByzUUp9twUop_DdcY9cx34v2xYl2z-C9FmCwdrKisAe7ODzzKMraw/s320/DSC02925+edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">You can now lay the next bunch on top of the first, making sure you cover the binding point with the following bunch. Keep on adding bunches.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJfLShFIBKIluwNibarehyQsETZ8cb36meow2amecCNvmX_E72kWAIT99TYidbUq3OI9sNOq3y4Gf29zEWQaQXZjrMNYSHPpYinbJJXc04Y4wa5undmN-HKcBQTicRIGJDmf82XpVkirI/s2048/DSC02920+edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJfLShFIBKIluwNibarehyQsETZ8cb36meow2amecCNvmX_E72kWAIT99TYidbUq3OI9sNOq3y4Gf29zEWQaQXZjrMNYSHPpYinbJJXc04Y4wa5undmN-HKcBQTicRIGJDmf82XpVkirI/s320/DSC02920+edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Just keep on adding bunches, turning the wreath as it builds. Try to keep the bunches evenly spread.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVE8nyLHGgYBZx8gqEoxChG6RaZ7kd9l07-IyU06rZI7k0eCWmMLSWIhFT8J-LhuCwD4pM85BuUjU_wKetbavZJMqlRfxh-3ZkuyV2N7i3MMsS0cR3fEvf_H0DeAGToYpQW92K_Az6KRo/s2048/DSC02930+edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVE8nyLHGgYBZx8gqEoxChG6RaZ7kd9l07-IyU06rZI7k0eCWmMLSWIhFT8J-LhuCwD4pM85BuUjU_wKetbavZJMqlRfxh-3ZkuyV2N7i3MMsS0cR3fEvf_H0DeAGToYpQW92K_Az6KRo/s320/DSC02930+edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Once the wreath is complete you could just tie a piece of string or ribbon to it and hang it from a nail on your door. My method is to put a piece of ribbon around the wreath and then attach it to the top of a door. I also decided to add a bow. So....... first I got the hanging ribbon in place and then I attached a strong piece of wire to the bow and pushed it right through to the back of the base. Here is the result:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDlrwnN7WBqo6WJpMdyEa0PrmDy9AFl-lYt0-8D-dqmhYzz7B92Q1OBoUi0sMHHfASWxmj5ldHV5WkEEcZWdG0HQfaRCLLD9TAr3OrB-0xVA6vUHHOp1IcJEhoYGvncOKdjzTJ4N0PCGk/s2048/DSC02932+edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1836" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDlrwnN7WBqo6WJpMdyEa0PrmDy9AFl-lYt0-8D-dqmhYzz7B92Q1OBoUi0sMHHfASWxmj5ldHV5WkEEcZWdG0HQfaRCLLD9TAr3OrB-0xVA6vUHHOp1IcJEhoYGvncOKdjzTJ4N0PCGk/s320/DSC02932+edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">I am very pleased with this. It cost absolutely nothing! It is made out of organic material which needs to be cut back at this time of year anyway and it is about as ecologically friendly as it could possibly be. I also think it looks great - cool, green, classy, perfect. It also has a lovely fragrance as you walk into our front porch. Why not have a go yourself?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-91652235358845356732020-11-21T10:19:00.003-08:002020-11-21T10:27:28.503-08:00The last of the summer flowers<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4iD9cJMwT8VON9qkAjLdszr8d1OyVvotofRf_0boJ_30MseqVifBTrIOX9UHtFjPCB8v9k_R9B6CKXLqVKXY94px_z2QXS6LshrJghGPAS_fWWcjrTanHrcVvN6LPv0JbREJkERDibc/s6000/DSC02822.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4iD9cJMwT8VON9qkAjLdszr8d1OyVvotofRf_0boJ_30MseqVifBTrIOX9UHtFjPCB8v9k_R9B6CKXLqVKXY94px_z2QXS6LshrJghGPAS_fWWcjrTanHrcVvN6LPv0JbREJkERDibc/w400-h266/DSC02822.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>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:<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPId7xzBKWUBTTdvtfeam7upQNcfTLQxjms3llODI4gMQqyMkthp-QE1e0V9OZf0UqB3O1ahuciC-VtqyRr1ZDehV30B26274ECn2IUT3XPmgq0k000jjDAt3dinVK5tGzsN53-Z2P4T0/s2048/DSC02826+edit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPId7xzBKWUBTTdvtfeam7upQNcfTLQxjms3llODI4gMQqyMkthp-QE1e0V9OZf0UqB3O1ahuciC-VtqyRr1ZDehV30B26274ECn2IUT3XPmgq0k000jjDAt3dinVK5tGzsN53-Z2P4T0/s320/DSC02826+edit.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_GK17mYkOUKgjAebvvYKkN79Xyx-AkvOsmzUUilfVjuwMbbhLbT9OvsSA0UczWmsYQ3fRZ9gWg3v3F6qiUxvXA0qcl5SM2-XT_xA4FN4iGnSPxpb3rUR5JHDOV_0JMvhhMseGU2hbXk/s2048/DSC02831+edit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSDFHF-eHBSAnPaq9KDUhCRlR1QPwyE3wNJe1y7w5hnbW5mkQDOcp-miaAslyBB8-MTejpUWJt5_HVM80HKy76qKP9mfXwym34ECRQmt9Q1AhTkA-xPbslm7VorQsrvApo-QcYOYho9eA/s2048/DSC02848+edit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1532" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSDFHF-eHBSAnPaq9KDUhCRlR1QPwyE3wNJe1y7w5hnbW5mkQDOcp-miaAslyBB8-MTejpUWJt5_HVM80HKy76qKP9mfXwym34ECRQmt9Q1AhTkA-xPbslm7VorQsrvApo-QcYOYho9eA/s320/DSC02848+edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>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.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNAofPzfZIyKZ9wvVss82Zmw-a0AQKAQz-pEqbGxpnVuI9PryBnRV4yTLKMhYkLKruWWSbRQiFuH50Jzh762mcXQxMKetT65OoQTbTaedijSX83ZPFmSfIuw4h_n3xXw6y7ndiXM6YLM0/s2048/DSC02841+edit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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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. 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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.<br /><div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p></div></div></div></div></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-67415029504774971362020-07-12T11:30:00.000-07:002020-07-12T11:30:32.542-07:00Flowers in lockdown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It has been a quiet few months for Meadowsweet. No weddings and no workshops, and to make it all worse, my webhost ceased to operate which wiped out my website overnight. But when I reflect over the last few months, I realise that I have done quite a lot with flowers, but quietly. It was my grandson's first birthday right at the start of the lockdown and I picked these April flowers from the garden as a virtual present. If you look you will see narcissi, tulips, hyacinth, muscari, wallflowers, hellebore and, best of all, snakeshead fritillary. Here are the same flowers popped into a jam jar:<br />
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Then a couple of weeks later it was my daughter, Jessie's, birthday. So I made the best virtual birthday bouquet I possibly could from our garden flowers. I photographed the bouquet outside and inside our house.<br />
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I almost always have a small vase, jug or jam jar of flowers on our dining table, and these were the beautiful, simple flowers from one day in April.<br />
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In May I followed most of an on-line art course. I liked some of it, but not all. The best bit was making shapes with the cardboard inside part of a loo roll, potato carving and just a finger. We used water colour which makes good layers and I used an ink pen which has been sitting dormant in a drawer for years. The best things I painted were these flower pictures.<br />
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In the Spring a dear friend died. She loved bright yellow flowers and I made another virtual bouquet in remembrance of her. It makes me smile to look at the colours and to think of her vibrant, happy personality.<br />
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In my last blog I posted lots of pictures of tulips. Once they had faded, Spring had a second wind and our front garden was filled with glorious irises and alliums.<br />
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Our summer garden is now coming slowly to life and we have cosmos, flowering mint, scabious, cornflowers, hebe, lavender, sweet peas, borage, love-in-a-mist and alliums. Here is a flavour of it all.<br />
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I am expecting that we will be wearing face coverings more in the coming weeks, so I decided to make some. There are lots of patterns available and I have gone for the pleated version. I got my sewing machine out and made them out of old shirts. For myself, I used a suitably floral fabric.<br />
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I am looking forward to our lives opening up now. I hope you are all keeping healthy and safe and that you are venturing out into the world more...perhaps with some interesting face coverings that you have run up!<br />
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The tulips are now fully up in our garden. We have lots of different pinks/purples - from really dark through to delicate hues. In this blog I`m offering a few simple ideas for making the most of your tulips - whether you`ve grown them in your garden or found them in the supermarket. I like to place single tulips in a collection of glass bottles. In this example I`ve set them up along the dinner table, mixing up the heights of the bottles and the tulips. Some of the bottles are old ones, picked up from junk shops and some are modern ones - they originally contained bubble bath or gin! (tip: make the water the same height in each bottle and make sure the stems reach the bottom of each bottle - this gives a consistent feel across the different shapes/heights of both bottles and tulips).<br />
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Have you noticed that tulips continue to grow after you`ve put them in a container? Sometimes by as much as 2 inches! You have to take account of this when you decide what to do with them. It can be easiest to just use tulips on their own - at least they all grow together at the same pace instead of sticking their heads up above the other flowers in the vase. After I moved these bottles from the table to the sideboard, they had grown more than an inch (as well as opening up) in two days.<br />
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If they grow much more, tomorrow I will cut a couple of inches off the bottom of each stem. The great thing about bottles is that they hold the stems in place really well because the necks are narrow. Once you place a lot of tulips in a vase with a wide neck something very different happens.<br />
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I quite like this relaxed look, but I think something more pleasing happens when you place the same tulips in a tall vase with a narrow-ish neck. The neck holds the tulips in a more upright position, though this is still a pretty informal look.<br />
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You can create a completely different, more contemporary look by holding the tulips in place with a grid made of sellotape. For this I have used a 14 cm glass cube vase. I made a grid with sellotape across the top of the vase, using three pieces of tape from left to right, and three pieces from top to bottom, creating 16 small square spaces. Then I picked 16 tulips from the garden - three different pink/purples and a few contrasting yellows. I took off all the leaves and cut all the stems to the same length so the tulip heads sat on the sellotape and the stems reached the bottom of the vase (tip: add the water before attaching the sellotape).<br />
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I have placed the tulips in four groups of four, working with the symmetry of the vase. I really don`t want these tulips to start wafting about above the sellotape, so once they start to grow I will cut the stems back. I have then used the same grid technique (again making 16 small square spaces) with the same tulips to create a very different effect in a traditional, ceramic pot. This time I have mixed the tulips up and also added a bit of foliage - about 6 pieces around the edge of the vase and about 5 pieces in the middle - this softens the look. The foliage can be slipped in with the tulips in the square spaces. I used sarcoccoca, a shrub which thrives in a shady part of our garden, but you could use anything you can lay your hands on - euonymus, hebe, ivy, box....(tip: make sure you strip off any leaves which would sit below the sellotape, otherwise you will have difficulty getting them into the small spaces along with the tulip stems).<br />
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Another idea for holding the tulips in place is to tie them. In this first example I`ve taken a large bunch of tulips and tied them with brown garden twine. This will keep the heads reasonably together and stop the tulips flopping (tip: tie the twine carefully so that it looks neat and make sure it sits well above the water line, otherwise it will get soggy and look unsightly).<br />
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Another variation on this approach is to use a rectangular vase and divide the tulips into three bunches which are then tied (tip: keep the heads fairly near the top of the vase so you get a massed effect of tulip heads).<br />
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Finally, another way to hold the tulips in place is to start with a base of foliage and then add some other flowers as well as the tulips. In this example I have kept to a monochromatic use of colour with a light shade of mauve for the hyacinths and a dark shade of mauve for the tulips. The mauve is also picked up in the vase (tip: cut the tulips to different heights so the eye is drawn from the top flower down to the bottom one).<br />
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I hope this has given you a few easy ideas to make the most of your tulips. Bringing spring flowers into the house is always a joy and I find that doing something with flowers takes my mind off all the dreadful stuff going on in the world at the moment and makes me smile - both in the doing, and in the finished outcome.Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-23519052179036036572020-03-27T11:12:00.000-07:002020-03-27T11:12:26.080-07:00Tips for daffodils<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In these difficult and worrying times, flowers can really help. Just look at this array of spring flowers and smile to see the colour and the hope of new life. It may be hard to find flowers in the shops at the moment, but there are still daffodils around in some supermarkets - and many people will have them in their gardens. This blog is about the relationship between your daffodils and your vases! So...if you take a tall vase with a reasonably narrow neck you can add just a few daffodils with long stems. The vase will hold them tightly and the look will be pleasing to the eye. There is a good balance here between the stem length and the height of the vase.<br />
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If you would like your display to look even more bountiful - just add another handful of daffodils (the same sort, or a different variety). I have cut some of the stems a little shorter so that the blooms are graduated from the top to the bottom - drawing the eye from the highest flower, through to the lowest.<br />
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I have used one of my favourite jugs here. I like the way the yellow flower painted on the vase helps to connect the daffodils with the jug. In fact, I`ve collected 3 vases with a similar design on them, but different sizes and shapes. They all work really well with daffodils. Look what happens when I place the long-stemmed daffodils in a squatter jug with a wider neck.<br />
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This makes the daffodils fan out and space is added between the stems. It's a very different look. And if I take the same daffodils and cut them a lot shorter I can create a massed effect. Completely different!<br />
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Daffodils are prolific and cheap. Two jugs placed next to each other look great when the two jugs are painted in a similar way.<br />
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Or how about three. Vases and jugs displayed in threes work especially well when all three are different heights.<br />
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I collected these three jugs from various junk shops and antique shops - I always have my eyes open for pretty jugs and vases. I find I have to be careful selecting jugs that work together - if the patterns are too busy they will compete with the flowers. Another approach is to use just one colour of container. This creates a more contemporary effect with the same daffodils.<br />
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I hope this may have given you a few ideas about what to do with your daffodils. It looks like we might be confined to our homes for some weeks yet and I plan to put another blog together with tips for tulips once ours are in bloom and I have something to work with. I hope you can enjoy the flowers of the early spring whether you grow them in your garden, on your balcony, or just appreciate them in the park during your daily walk. Stay safe and well.Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-35947843243346212142020-01-27T09:20:00.000-08:002020-01-27T09:20:01.195-08:00Hurrah for the humble jam jar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is one of the most popular images I have posted on my instagram feed over the last few months. A painted jam jar full of pretty flowers has a timeless quality which people seem to like a lot. I love to use jam jars...sometimes naked, like this:<br />
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But more often decorated. Sometimes with pretty paper.<br />
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Sometimes to celebrate a special event like Halloween.<br />
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The great thing about jam jars is that they are cheap (or even free as a by-product of your honey or your gherkins) and they can be dressed up or down in many ways. Often I decorate them with lace and string/ribbon for weddings.<br />
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The jars look great on tables or window sills, and after the wedding they can be given away as gifts to selected guests.<br />
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But most of all, I like a painted jam jar. The pattern I have developed looks brilliant for a country wedding.<br />
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I often fill these painted jam jars with flowers and give them as presents. They are lovely to take round to someone's house when you have been invited for supper - you can just place them in the middle of the table. They look great and make everyone feel happy!<br />
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If you come to my next flower workshop you will make a small posy using spring flowers from Cornwall. These will be placed in one of my painted jam jars. This will be your chance to practice hand-tying before making a large bouquet to fill a pretty jug.Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-38678654066386586172019-12-05T09:55:00.000-08:002019-12-05T09:55:40.347-08:00Happy Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Christmas is in the air! It's made me dig out one of my jugs decorated with poinsettias. I`ve filled it with white flowers (so soothing and a lovely contrast to all the bling coming our way).<br />
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The pine cones and dried peppers around this jug are pointing the way to the materials needed for wreath-making. I will be running my wreath workshop next Saturday. The wreaths can be hung inside or outside and will look something like this:<br />
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I think this is the last year I will run this kind of wreath workshop. I might experiment with other approaches in future years. Here is an example of one I made a few years ago. Instead of wire and straw as the base, I used branches from our cotoneaster tree woven together. Then I added dried materials. Jessie said it looked a bit Mrs Haversham-ish - hmm, she had a point!<br />
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Over the years I have run several Christmas flowers workshops and I've picked out a couple of the more interesting ones. For this first one we used dried materials to make a container and then we added gorgeous dark red roses, berries and foliage.<br />
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This second idea was inspired by Francois Weekes' woodland arrangements concept. All the materials were attached to a piece of wood through the medium of moss. We made a little moss-covered container for a few fresh flowers.<br />
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After all the work preparing and running workshops, when it comes to my own Christmas flowers I prefer just placing my flowers in jugs - I especially like pewter, ivy designs and vintage with a bit of gold in the design:<br />
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A couple of years ago I left everything too late and I just couldn`t bring myself to buy the glittered, glitzy, nearly dead red flowers in the supermarket. Instead I bought a couple of bunches of flowers in vibrant, mixed colours. I was pretty pleased with the arrangements I got out of them.<br />
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This weekend I will be in Filey where the fishtive Christmas tree will be turned on. This is a tree shape made out of lobster pots by Filey's few remaining fishermen. It's a tradition in Filey and it's brilliant.<br />
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A very happy Christmas to you all.</div>
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This is a haul of flowers cut from our garden a couple of weeks ago. I tried to select a good range of flowers in terms of colour and shape....but some of the flowers (sweet peas especially) are cut and come again and you just have to get on and cut them nearly every day. On this summer morning I cut phlox, hydrangea, cosmos, crocosmia, hebe, alliums, sweet peas, sea holly, mallow, lavender, scabious and dahlias. This blog is about what I did with the flowers. First of all, I used fluffy pink phlox and hydrangea off-set with white phlox, white dahlia, white hebe and blue sea -holly. There was so much pink, I used a contrasting white enamel jug.<br />
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Then I tackled the sweet peas. I started off by selecting the purples and whites with good, long stems and I placed them in a vase and a sweet moroccan glass.<br />
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Next I took the old-fashioned sweet peas (lovely scent, but shorter stems) which are a mix of purple and lavender and I hand-tied them into a jam jar.<br />
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The thing about sweet peas is that you get some with recalcitrant, curved stems - I put these into a pretty bottle (nice for the dinner table).<br />
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Then I used up the short-stemmed bits and pieces. I hand-tied them into small round containers and lined them up on a window sill. I love the splash of red here, and the flowers looked stunning in the morning light.<br />
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I had quite a few airy, floaty flowers to use (like mallow, scabious and cosmos) and I decided to use these together in glass vases. I added a hydrangea near to the rim of the vase just to give a bit of weight/stability. It works well when you can see the stems in this kind of arrangement.<br />
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It can be a it of a challenge when you have flowers with really strong colours. These can be mixed in with other contrasting colours, but I decided to use them together - I mixed orange dahlias with dark pink cosmos and red sweet peas.<br />
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Then I was left with one gorgeous dahlia. I used this on its own in a brown jam jar. It is such a dramatic bloom that works on its own.<br />
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Finally, what to do with the crocosmia? I love crocosmia - such elegant and intriguing flowers. I placed them in this simple white jug. I stripped off some of the spiky foliage and added that to the jug. Perfect.<br />
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It is wonderful to have flowers to cut in your own garden....but it is important to allow enough time to harvest them - this is best done in the evening after the heat of the day. Then you need to allow plenty of time to really enjoy creating something lovely with them. This may demand a bit of imagination. It helps to have a good range of vases, jars and bottles. What I love about the end result is the way cut flowers bring the garden into the house.Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-25655293662007051282019-06-25T12:08:00.000-07:002019-06-25T12:14:09.089-07:00Mothers, daughters and flowers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my daughter, Jessie, and me a long time ago......We both love flowers and Jessie has played a big part in Meadowsweet right from the beginning. We`ve been to flower classes together, shopped in flower markets and she helped me with my workshops, especially in the early days. Now we are moving on to a new project together. We are swapping ideas about how we use flowers in an everyday way in our homes. We both think that flowers make life better - whether it is sharing a cup of tea or planning a party:<br />
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So...we`ve set up a new instagram account called <a href="https://www.instagram.com/just.add.flowers/" style="background-color: #93c47d;" target="_blank">just.add.flowers</a> Our aim is to show lovely pictures of easily available flowers (bought from the supermarket or grown at home) in our own home environments. We are trying to show how everybody can do something really satisfying with flowers with a small budget and a little thought. Before we started we decided to improve the way we take pictures of flowers and we had some brilliant help from <a href="https://www.rachelsinclair.co.uk/" style="background-color: #93c47d;" target="_blank">Rachel Sinclair</a> She showed us how to set things up inside our homes with different backgrounds. For example:<br />
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And she showed us how to shoot into the light and blur the background:<br />
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Jessie lives in a flat in Walthamstow with a balcony where she grows flowers, tomatoes and herbs. Her flat is filled with attractive books and she uses quite small, beautiful vases to display her flowers. She's a graphic designer so she looks at flowers through the eye of an artist. Here is a sample of Jessie's recent posts on just.add.flowers:<br />
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As readers of my blog know, I have a house in Sheffield with a medium-sized garden. I look at flowers through the lens of a gardener/florist and I tend to use bigger vases than Jessie just because I have more space (the jaunty little goat is an exception!). Here is a sample of my recent posts:<br />
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We really like the way our use of flowers and our pictures inter-weave and contrast. As we develop just.add.flowers, we plan to build on this to find other ways of sharing our ideas about getting the most out of flowers every day. If you don't have an instagram account you can just click below to get to our pictures:<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">I will finish with another picture of Jessie and me from long ago, and a picture taken just last month. Still laughing and smiling.</span></div>
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<br />Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-9070693851983142602019-04-29T11:53:00.000-07:002019-04-29T11:53:29.369-07:00Putting on a show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The tulips have been marvellous this year. Here they are placed in a simple vase - they make their own show with their constant growth and movement. Spring is a great time for workshops. As you all know I don`t use floral foam (otherwise known as oasis) which doesn`t work well with spring flowers because they have delicate stems and they need lots of water. It can be a bit of a challenge thinking up ways of making arrangements in water that don`t just look like vases, jugs or jars. A few weeks ago I ran a workshop to create a rectangular design in a pretty crate:<br />
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The spring flowers we used were ranunculus (red and white), tulips, several kinds of narcissi, bluebells and yellow iris.<br />
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The results were splendid - the crates were robust, beautiful and perfectly rectangular! Here are a few of them.<br />
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Perhaps the best kind of flower show is at a wedding. I ran a really enjoyable and productive DIY wedding workshop in March. The participants were two mother and daughter teams - both daughters getting married on the same day in August. They had already planned their colour schemes, so I was able to source flowers in their chosen colours to really give them a sense of what their wedding flowers would look like. The first colour scheme was a vibrant mix of bright colours:<br />
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The other was very different - just classy white and greens:<br />
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We made posies, bouquets and buttonholes and experimented with flowers in bottles, teapots and jam jars. I was so busy working with individuals on their designs, I had no time to take any photos. But Shirley, one of the participants took a few - so a big thank you to her for sending me these pictures of everyone hard at work.<br />
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All the participants produced gorgeous results and went away feeling confident that they could do their own wedding flowers. Hurrah! Here is a little taste of what they made:<br />
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Finally, a couple of pretty jugs that I put together for my home. First just narcissi and bluebells. Then a jug filled with abundant, glorious spring flowers.<br />
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I can`t sign off before giving you a sense of the brilliant show that our garden has produced this spring - you can see tulips, hellebore, narcissi and blubells. It has been simply wonderful.</div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-7077714616315880392019-02-04T15:11:00.000-08:002019-02-04T15:11:34.563-08:00Vintage Flowers <br />
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Of course flowers themselves are not vintage. They are fresh as a daisy and here today and gone tomorrow (or at least next week). It is the containers that are vintage and I love using them to display flowers. I especially like old jugs, pretty cups and saucers and heavy glass vases. Digging around in antique shops and junk shops can yield all sorts of great (and inexpensive) finds. Here are a few of my favourite jugs filled with spring flowers:</div>
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And with late summer flowers:</div>
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Cups and saucers and sundae dishes look pretty:</div>
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This heavy glass vase works well with old-fashioned flowers (in this case dahlias):</div>
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I run two different vintage flower workshops. One makes use of a trio (cup, saucer and small plate), jam jar and sundae dish to make three arrangements using three different construction techniques.</div>
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The other uses a foliage base to hold the flowers in place. We start by making a small arrangement using an eclectic range of pretty jugs.</div>
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Here are a couple made up:</div>
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Then for the main show we use all sorts of large vintage jugs to make lovely, individual arrangements. Here are a few:</div>
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If you can`t get the kind of vintage containers you want, why not fake it! Sometimes I make 'vintage' containers by covering juice cartons with vintage-looking paper.</div>
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For my next workshop in April we are going to fill a fake vintage crate with spring flowers - it looks gorgeous. Why not come along and make something stunning - we will be using lots of spring flowers, not just tulips.</div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-78599213663678140662018-12-09T06:12:00.000-08:002018-12-09T06:12:11.408-08:00The Brexit threat to the floristry industry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Annie got married in April. She sent me this photo of her bouquet which she took in her hotel bedroom. It is made from gerberas, alstroemeria, sea holly, veronica, avalanche roses, asters and gypsophila, all of which I bought from GT Flowers, my wholesaler of choice in Sheffield. All of these flowers had been imported from Holland through the Dutch flower auction. High street florists depend on imported flowers and Brexit threatens the quality and cost of the flowers that make up this kind of bouquet. The operation of the European flower industry today is totally brilliant. This is how it works.<br />
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The UK imports 80% of its cut flowers and 70% of its plants from the Netherlands from Flora Holland, a co-operative of 4,291 growers mainly based in Holland. The biggest operation is at Aalsmeer (I wrote a blog about this in May 2016). The import value of these products to the UK in 2017 was 837 million euros. This was the wholesale value. The retail value through high street florists was far greater than this. When the trucks set off from Holland they head for UK ports (mostly Dover) and the Channel tunnel.<br />
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No tariffs apply to the flowers as they reach the UK and there are no customs controls. All of the flowers shipped have to meet EU standards relating to quality, control of pests and disease. Whilst most of the flowers are grown in Holland, the EU also has trade agreements with African countries, Turkey, Columbia and Israel whose flowers are also sold through Aalsmeer. For example, the EU has an agreement with Africa's Least Developed Countries through which 'Anything but Arms' can be sold duty-free into the EU. This means Ethiopian gypsophila can be sold through the Aalsmeer market with no added duty.</div>
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Kenya is a much bigger player in the flower industry than the Least Developed Countries and it has its own trade deal with the EU - the Market Access Regulation - which means that its beautiful flowers, like these roses, have duty-free access to the EU market. No problem trading with the world then!</div>
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So what is the Brexit threat? The British Floristry Association (BFA) is the trade body for professional florists. There is a lot I don`t like about the BFA, but it has been very strong on identifying the threats and lobbying the Government on behalf of the industry and most of my evidence here is drawn from their sources. The fall in value in the pound against the euro has already pushed up the cost of imported flowers and high street florists are already closing at the rate of five per week. Here are some beautiful imported flowers in great condition. This is what we are at risk of losing:</div>
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The first threat is to quality and vase life. Experience from handling flowers imported from outside the EU, where there are customs controls, suggests that customs delays currently take up to 4 hours. If the traffic to be cleared through customs increases with EU imports (a massive increase in volume) the likely delays will be very long indeed. Just think what impact this will have on the quality and vase life of the flowers you buy in the shops - your rose will get to the stage in the picture below far more quickly!</div>
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The second threat is to cost. If we crash out of the EU with no deal, tariffs will be added to the price of the flowers we import. Also, the pound is likely to fall still further. Your bunch of flowers could cost 10-15% more than you pay today. The livelihood of florists is already precarious. The cost of flowers fluctuates weekly, depending on the prices fetched at the Dutch flower auctions. It is very difficult to make any money at all, but with higher flower costs, even more high street florists will close and the supermarkets will take even more of the flower market share. That will lead to a narrow range of flowers - typically roses, chrysanthemums and carnations - on offer and a loss of variety and of floristry skills. Perhaps I am being pessimistic - might some opportunities open up? Perhaps African countries might export direct to us, by-passing the EU? What would be the attraction of this to the growers? Perhaps less restrictions on quality or pest control? This does not sound attractive to me. But, what about opportunities for our British growers?</div>
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I love British flowers and buy and sell lots of them. British growers are getting much better at marketing themselves and they are gaining a stronger and stronger following. But they have no chance of taking up the slack and producing millions of pounds worth of flowers. Their product is seasonal and particularly wonderful in the spring and summer, but limited in the late autumn and winter:</div>
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The main problem is that most are micro growers, employing just a few family members at most. Their product is mainly for their own use - for weddings, bouquets, workshops and farm gate sales, with perhaps some flowers going into local flower shops. Green and Gorgeous is a great example of a successful, small flower grower, but I can`t see them expanding production very much:</div>
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The few larger-scale growers - like tulip and lily farmers in Lincolnshire - depend on free movement of labour in order to hire people from Eastern Europe who are prepared to do the low paid work required on a flower farm. The work involves long hours, it is physically demanding and much of it is outside in the elements. The horrible irony is that the chances of British flower farmers growing to meet the market opportunity for supplying flowers to the UK floristry industry will be strangled without access to this labour post Brexit. </div>
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So, all in all, the floristry industry post Brexit is likely to go into decline. Expect to see poorer quality, higher cost flowers and a severe reduction in the number of flower shops. I don`t want this to happen. I don`t want us to leave the EU with all the trading benefits and product protection it gives to us. Still, at this late hour, I am hoping that we might get another say through a People's Vote. That is why Mike and I marched with 700,000 other people in October, demanding our say:</div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-9103078938116392192018-11-05T02:50:00.000-08:002018-11-05T02:50:25.555-08:00Purple roses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When Gemma came to see me in February this year, she had a really clear concept for her October wedding. She wanted it to feel autumnal, not frothy and summery, and she had a precise colour scheme - dark purple, light purple and white. Lovely, but a bit of a challenge as she was hoping for purple roses. I had never seen any purple roses at the flower market, and when I asked I was told that only light purple roses existed and a rose called 'Purple Haze' would be easy to get hold of. Gemma's husband to be, Ian, liked the idea of Purple Haze because it's the title of a Jimi Hendrix song. Here is a picture of it - looks like it would do the job.<br />
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Well, I tried ordering this a few times over the year to see if it was true and could be obtained easily. The first time a bright cerise rose arrived! The second time an OK-ish rose called 'New Orleans' arrived, but it was a bit pink and not best quality. Then I spied a beautiful rose called 'Ocean Song' in someone else's order. This is just exquisite and it even has a bit of a rose fragrance. I got it - 100 stems.<br />
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Then, the dark purple came from lisyanthus and the white from glorious avalanche roses and gypsophila.<br />
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Gemma bought gorgeous metallic glass vases for the welcome vase and the table centres. Here they are in my workshop.<br />
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I made small vase arrangements for moving around the venue - from the registrar's table and window sills to the top table. The ladies' buttonholes had a little gypsophila and lisyanthus added to the rose and the foliage. They were finished off with lace and purple ribbon. The men's buttonholes were simpler and finished off with silver wire.<br />
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Everybody tells me how important it is to take photos of wedding flowers - but mostly there isn`t enough time. On the day of the wedding everything needs to be packed up safely and off we go. I ran out of time to take photos of Gemma's bouquet and the bridesmaids' posies - just managed to snap them in the back of the car before we set off to the venue.<br />
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Ian's interest in Jimi Hendrix became clear as we got to the venue. The clue starts with the sheet music you can see on the right of the welcome table.<br />
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Every table had a record placed in the middle. The centres of the records were purple and there were purple petals scattered on the wood slices where I placed the flowers. It looked wonderful.<br />
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Whilst I was setting up, the lady with the cake arrived. I couldn`t believe it - she had made icing sugar flowers in exactly the same colours as the real flowers.<br />
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What a gorgeous October wedding. Finally, on the subject of purple roses. During one of my workshops when I was talking about purple roses, and the difficulty in getting hold of them, one of the participants, Christine, told me she had seen a bush of purple roses for sale at a local garden centre. The rose is called 'Rhapsody in Blue' and it is a fantastic deep purple - so dark purple roses do exist!<br />
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<br />Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-39402232367491805232018-08-28T02:55:00.000-07:002018-08-28T02:55:05.681-07:00Summer in the City<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been a scorching hot summer, but our garden has held up well with a lot of effort put into watering. Here is a picking of flowers one morning in early July. Stand out flowers were sea holly, red alstroemeria and sweetpeas.<br />
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Another favourite of mine has been perennial scabious. It is lovely when it is just starting to open up, when it is in full bloom and also as a seedhead.<br />
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Other brilliant flowers, still in bloom, are cosmos, echinacea, garlic chives and lavender.<br />
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In the height of the summer I was really pleased to arrange the flowers for Holly's wedding. She got married in Sheffield Town Hall and then had her reception at Tampers. I made her bouquet with just white and blue flowers (including the gorgeous scabious with asters, sea holly, lavender, roses, phlox and agapanthus).<br />
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Her bridesmaids' posies included a few yellow roses to match up with the gold ties worn by the men.<br />
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Now we`ve got to late summer, the dahlias are the star of the show.<br />
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Also the produce for eating!<br />
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Mike is really keen on geraniums. They aren`t my favourite, but I have to agree that they have really livened up this bit of wall.<br />
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There are a lot of flowers to harvest at this time of year and I find myself arranging them straight into jugs and vases. I will be running a workshop on Saturday 6th October about arranging into vintage jugs. These are the kind of things I like to put together.<br />
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Why not come along to the workshop and release some creativity!<br />
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This weekend I`ve lifted the last of the tulip bulbs and the specialist narcissi bulbs to store until the autumn. We`ve had brilliant weather here in South Yorkshire for the last few weeks. In May I did the wedding flowers for a fabulous wedding at Cressbrook Hall which is the depths of Derbyshire near Monsal Head. The weather was spectacular:<br />
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Here are the flowers as I brought them into the hall:<br />
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Then here they are in their proper place on the tables. The colours looked great against the views outside and in the setting of the hall:<br />
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I am hoping I will get to see some photos of the wedding party with their flowers soon. But, for now, here is one of the bridesmaid's posies (mainly pink and white) and the bride's bouquet (with more blue flowers) in my workshop before they were packed up to go:<br />
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I also made a couple of presentation bouquets for the mothers of the bride and groom:<br />
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This time of year is usually a bit disappointing in our garden. The spring flowers have gone and the annuals are not yet in flower. This year has been different - the perennials have burst into life. The astrantia and alchemilla have blossomed with particular vigour:<br />
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Then the roses and clematis are also fully out in all their spendour:<br />
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We have a rather dank area at the side of the house which is full of beautiful spires of foxgloves.<br />
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At the front of the house we have some wonderful bright red poppies with splashes of black, the last of the iris and an intriguing flower that we grew from seed - it was a present from a friend and we don`t know what it is. Any suggestions?<br />
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And to finish, here is a simple posy of June flowers picked from our garden this morning:<br />
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<br />Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-51409354187685741432018-04-22T15:36:00.000-07:002018-04-22T15:36:07.879-07:00Spring at last<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Spring has come late this year. In March the only things up in our garden were hellebores and a few early daffodils. But I was able to buy these bright spring flowers from my supplier in Cornwall - multi-headed narcissi, double daffodils, tulips and snowdrops. We used these to make naturalistic arrangements in three parts (like a triptych) in my March workshop:<br />
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I`ve also been buying gorgeous tulips from Smith and Musson (based in Lincolnshire). I love these deep plum-coloured ones. I mixed them up with clematis, waxflower and spray roses in this white urn. I really like plum up against white like this:<br />
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Here is a simple and effective idea for showing off tulips. They are in jam jars placed in a pretty crate:<br />
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Another idea is to use a flower brick. I bought this one when we were in Amsterdam a couple of years ago. It is based on an old method (it has a removable lid with holes in it) and the blue and white design is a traditional Delftware pattern with a modern twist. Easy to use and very effective.<br />
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I arranged the flowers for Annie and Ed's wedding in April. They got married in Bakewell - here are their flowers ready to go. Just a bouquet, posy, a couple of buttonholes and a few jars to carry from place to place as the day unfolded:<br />
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After the wedding they went for a ramble in the Peak District - they both have their walking boots on at this point in proceedings. Such a happy day, and so reflective of their interests and values.<br />
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At last our garden has some flowers growing in it. There are lots of white blooming flowers - fabulous daffodils, pear blossom, tulips and narcissi :<br />
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We also have lots of blue flowers at this time of year. Some old friends which appear every year - rosemary, bluebells (just starting) and muscari (grape hyacinths). Also some new perennials only recently planted - brunnera and anemones:<br />
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Then we have some brilliant purple/mauve flowers. Aubretia so vivid it is hard to look at, intriguing snakes head fritillary and, of course, tulips.<br />
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I will finish off with the simplest of little arrangements for a dinner table in spring.<br />
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<br />Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-47984465678510155232018-02-18T12:35:00.000-08:002018-02-18T12:35:51.667-08:00February<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's easy to get into the flower doldrums in February. It's still winter and nothing is flowering in our garden yet apart from a few unhappy hellebores. But this winter, my heart has been lifted by embroidered flowers. It all started at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow. They were exhibiting the works (embroidered) of May Morris, William's daughter. She was chief designer of embroidery at Morris and Company. At first she followed her father's style, but over time she developed her own complex and beautiful designs. Often these included flowers and birds:<br />
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She lifted embroidery from a domestic craft to a serious art form. Here are a few more examples of her work.<br />
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But the domestic craft can also be wondrous. This work was embroidered my Mike's grandfather who was a miner. He produced this embroidery when he could no longer exert himself physically very much.<br />
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Mike's mother also created some beautiful pieces - full of flowers and birds and not so very different from the Morris style.<br />
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Back to the real thing! We have now acquired a new propagator with both heat and light and we have started off some germination.<br />
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Then, at last, some spring flowers for Valentine's Day last week. I bought tulips, snowdrops, exquisite green iris and narcissi (wonderful scent).<br />
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The flowers were delivered on Tuesday morning and all the bouquets, posies and bunches I put together had been collected by the evening - it was busy and I had no time to take any pictures of the finished things. But I did make a few simple arrangements for our home:<br />
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I also developed some ideas for a new workshop using a naturalistic style. This involves placing the flowers vertically into the container as if they were growing. I think this looks really delightful and I will be running the new workshop on Saturday 10 March.<br />
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<br />Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-1595283925177807692018-01-03T10:21:00.000-08:002018-01-03T10:21:28.178-08:00Happy New Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This Autumn I started Emma Davies' wonderful photography course so that I could improve the pictures I take of flowers. The course is on-line and you can either do it for free, or add in some cost, like the workbook included in the image above. I am trying to be more thoughtful about some of the photos I take. I was trying to capture some of the elements of Christmas wreath-making in this picture. I ran two wreath-making workshops in December this year. Here are some of the participants from the first one:<br />
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I caught a few people at work in the second workshop. Notice the glass of wine already at hand!<br />
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And here they are with their finished wreaths.<br />
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I made two wreaths for myself. I hung one inside and one on an outer door - just look what a difference the light makes.<br />
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I didn`t run a table centre workshop this year, so I missed getting a delivery of Christmas flowers. This meant I was driven to buy last-minute flowers from the supermarket. Most of them were very disappointing - nasty bunches full of glitter and dye, and lots of nearly dead flowers. I liked Sainsbury's offering best and I bought a couple of mixed bunches - they were in jewel-like colours and included roses, chrysanthemums, gerberas and the odd bit of foliage. I added foliage from the garden - choisya, ivy, holly, sarcaccoca(with brilliant black berries) and rosemary. I used pewter vases for everything and was pretty pleased with the results:<br />
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So...as we approach Twelfth Night and the end of the Christmas festivities I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year and thank you for all your interest and support during 2017. I am looking forward to sharing new ideas with you for things to do with flowers in 2018.<br />
With very best wishes, LizLizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-81454514147898990112017-11-28T06:16:00.000-08:002017-11-28T06:16:11.602-08:00November<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nearly the end of November already. After quite a mild Autumn, it suddenly turned very cold this week. It was also very beautiful. This is a picture of the gate into our garden in the middle of the afternoon a couple of days ago. There was a low sun and a bright, blue sky. I am surprised by how much life there still is in our garden. The cotoneaster tree is laden with berries and we are waiting for the flock of redwings to appear and devour them.<br />
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We still have some climbing roses blooming.<br />
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We also have some pretty red rose hips.<br />
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And, despite a few frosts, the nasturtiums haven`t yet collapsed.<br />
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The flowers from the late clematis have formed lovely, silky seedheads.<br />
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Mike and I have both been working hard in the garden this week. Here is Mike, loppers in hand, after pruning the apricot tree. I took this photo from the warmth of the house! You can see our artichoke heads still standing proud and adding a bit of structure to the view out of the window.<br />
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I brought some of our succulents in from the wet and I`ve placed them under our veranda. It will be interesting to see how they fare there.<br />
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I have also spent days clearing out pots and clearing beds ready for the bulbs. I`ve planted lots of different tulips and narcissi and I'm already looking forward to the first shoots of spring.<br />
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Whilst we are waiting for the redwings, I will finish with this pretty picture of pretend birds!<br />
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<br />Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-55257506642488258712017-09-07T14:45:00.000-07:002017-09-07T14:45:55.443-07:00Yellow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yellow is the most luminous of all the colours in the spectrum and it really grabs our attention. The Cambridge Dictionary defines yellow as 'a colour like that of a lemon or gold or the sun'. Exactly! It lifts our hearts and makes us happy. What better colour could there be for a summer wedding in Ecclesall Woods. I mixed in some blue for the venue flowers. Sarah's (the bride) Dad made her a cute little crate which I filled with flowers:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The yellow flowers are sunflowers and gerberas. The blue flowers are cornflowers, sea holly, veronica, brodiaea and ageratum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I used kilner jars for the registrar's table:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then I dotted a few jam jars around and about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The wedding photographer was Ben West and I am delighted that he has given me permission to use some of his photographs to show the flowers with the wedding party. You can find more about him and his work on his website <a href="http://www.benwestphotography.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.benwestphotography.co.uk/</a> Sarah chose to have her bouquet made with sunflowers, gerberas, gypsophila and just a little foliage. Here she is arriving with her proud Dad:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And with her beautiful bouquet:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The bridesmaids' posies were classy and simple, just with gerberas. They contrasted very well with their navy dresses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The men had buttonholes made with gypsophila. The ladies had buttonholes based around a single gerbera. They looked great and complemented the wearers' smiles magnificently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are Sarah and Chris looking bright, sunny and happy. Everything that yellow symbolises.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I think just a bit of yellow as a pop of colour works really well. Here are the bouquets that Sarah asked me to make as gifts to say thank you to people who made a big contribution to her wedding day. What a lovely idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-5917734201591109822017-07-16T01:25:00.000-07:002017-07-16T14:22:42.891-07:00The Dutch Masters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Last month I ran a new workshop broadly inspired by the Dutch Masters who painted pictures of flowers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Their art has influenced a lot of great floristry over the last few years and produced some wonderful, abundant arrangements. Here are a couple of examples of Dutch paintings. The first is by Jan van Huysum and the second by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (thanks to the Getty Open Content Programme for use of the digital images):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Real blooms, especially tulips, were so expensive at the time that wealthy people commissioned pictures of their favourite flowers. But the paintings were not of actual arrangements - often the stems were unrealistically long and flowers were painted which were not in season at the same time. There was also a still life feel about the pictures with cut flowers and insects placed around the arrangements, or artefacts like skulls or books. The paintings showed off the skill of the artists, especially their use of colour, light and shade. In fact, it is the use of moody shade that pervades many of the images of floristry influenced by the Dutch Masters. It is so much part of the current trend that I was taught how to take these dark photographs at a course I went to last year (at the Green and Gorgeous Flower Farm) to improve my skills of photographing flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Whist I really admire some of this dark, romantic work, I prefer a light-filled environment. Here is the example arrangement I created for my workshop participants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The shape of this arrangement is based on an asymmetrical lazy-S rather than a pyramid or a dome. The workshop took place in June when there were some vibrant late spring flowers for us to use. Sweet william, brodiaea, cornflowers, pinks and alstroemeria from Clowance in Cornwall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Gorgeous white avalanche roses and pink and white stocks from the Sheffield flower market.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And lovely pink astrantia from our garden. I love this starry, light flower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I had sourced these attractive beaten metal bowls for our arrangements which would be made in chickenwire (the gardening gloves are to protect people's hands from the spiky wire).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The arrangements that participants produced were simply wonderful. Gorgeous, sumptuous and exciting to the eye. Here are a few examples.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was hard to capture the magnificence of the arrangements in our work area as there were just too many flowers to get into our peripheral vision! After the workshop a couple of participants sent me pictures of their arrangements in situ. Just fantastic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I really enjoyed this workshop and was stunned by the results. I am planning to run it again this Autumn - there should be some great seasonal flowers to use. I am hoping for dahlias.</span>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425805440914227093.post-55586552598569075202017-05-29T05:46:00.000-07:002017-05-29T05:46:40.066-07:00All White<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Usually I use beautiful colours when I work with flowers, but recently I have been drawn to using just white flowers. There is something pure and exquisite about white flowers. <span style="font-family: inherit;">This quote <span style="background-color: white; color: #666363;">from Vanessa Diffenbaugh's novel</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #666363;"> </span><em style="color: #666363;">The Language of Flowers</em><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #666363;"><i> </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666363;">captures the essence of
white <i>'The bouquet was white as a wedding and spoke of prayers, truth and an
unacquainted heart'</i>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #666363;"> Last month I ran a workshop with all white flowers. Here are some of the flowers set up before the workshop - tulips, roses, delphiniums, white bluebells, lily-of-the-valley, veronica, alstroemeria, soloman's seal and feverfew.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #666363;">We lined up all the flowers for making a large hand-tied bouquet. The flowers looked absolutely beautiful and everyone felt that there was something very calming, and almost therapeutic, when we worked with them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #666363;">We placed the finished bouquet in a simple, unadorned kilner jar.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #666363;">Then this was presented in a green Meadowsweet gift bag. Green works especially well with white.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #666363;">Weddings are associated with white - of course they are given the connotations of purity! Mostly I have used white in buttonholes - either a single white rose, just with some green foliage or a touch of colour:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #666363;">....or a little bunch of gypsophila tied with lace and string:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #666363;">For one wedding I decorated tables in a marquee just with gypsophila - a frothy mass of white!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #666363;">This white urn would look gorgeous in a wedding venue.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #666363;">Finally, here is a simple jug of mainly white flowers - peonies and astrantia picked from the garden, snapdragons and foliage. Joyful and lovely.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #666363;"><br /></span></span>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335141504776824733noreply@blogger.com0