Going into the summer I had high hopes for keeping this space loaded with great posts every single week. When declaring my grand intentions back in June to my office manager Jill, she seemed pretty skeptical. At the time I thought she was just being overly cautious, worrying that I might be met with disappointment loading the plate so very full. Well, as usual she was right. There really are only so many hours in the day, as much as I try to deny that fact.
This week 400 mixed bouquets went out the door along with 300 bunches of dahlias, dozens and dozens of buckets of garden treasures and two sweet little weddings. Phew! And this is just the beginning. Crazy season is finally here.
So this week’s bouquet making was a tad bit delayed but boy was it just the recharge my soul needed. Walking the fields in silence, picking just for myself with no pinterest boards to reference, no questions to answer, no emails or calls to take, no fires to put out. Just an hour to myself in the garden, making what felt right in the moment.
This cheerful bouquet included: rudabeckia, nasturtiums, lemon balm, wild mustard, matricaria, raspberry green, garden rose ‘Carmel Antique’, love in a puff vine and dahlia ‘Bracken Palmino’.
My time in the garden was so relaxing and there were so many beautiful ingredients that I decided to make up another arrangement. The two couldn’t be more different. The yellow one was how I was wanting to feel (cheerful, upbeat and relaxed) and this dark one was how I was actually feeling (tired, a little discouraged and reflective).
This moody bouquet included: grapes, coleus, amaranth, dahlias ‘Bracken Rose’, ‘Twilight’ and ‘Crossfield Ebony’, black queen anne’s lace, scabiosa, basil, copper beech, black elderberries, lisianthus, scented geranium ‘Chocolate’, wheat, nine bark ‘Coppertina’ and thornless blackberries.
I know how crazy life is, especially during the height summer but if you can find the time to sneak in a little flowering I’d sure love to see what you create!
If you’d like to join in the fun, simply make up a bouquet using seasonal flowers, snap a photo, post it somewhere on the internet and then leave a link to it in the comments section here. If you’re on Instagram, you can use/search the hashtag #seasonalfloweralliance for even more flowery goodness.
Ginny on
Fresh from my garden. Erin is such an inspiration! http://instagram.com/p/rh1yeXCYiZ/