This spring the garden has offered some interesting flowers for arrangements. Tulips, hellebores and lilacs are the main players in the vase above. I have made several similar ones over the past week.
Peony-flowering 'Blue Spectacle' tulips add mauvey-plum or plummy-mauve or some color like that. I love how their stems curve to make a soft and flowing arrangement.
'Double Queen' hellebores have aged from cream to green but they still work well in an arrangement. Hellebore blooms last a long time in the garden or in the vase.
'Katherine Havemeyer' lilacs make a good filler and add that yummy lilac scent to the creation.
Muscari paradoxum are a deeper color than regular grape hyacinths. The buds have a turquoise sheen, then they open to pure navy.
The fluffy white stuff is 'Victoria' rhubarb. Have I mentioned that I'm completely in love with rhubarb for its ornamental qualities? Everyone who visits the garden comments on it - it's about five feet tall right now in bloom. The huge ruffled leaves are beautiful and the flowers work well in arrangements.
I also used several stems of 'June Bride' heuchera buds to add a dainty touch. In this arrangement I forgot to include variegated Solomon's seal (Polygonatum), but it is a useful foliage addition to vases.
If I had unlimited resources, I would bring spring flowers to everyone. But since I am not superwomen, please enjoy this vase via photos. Happy spring!
What a beautiful arrangement! You have a gift for combinations for sure. Thanks for sharing your lovely bouquet! Happy May :)
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ReplyDeleteLovely arrangement... As much as I love being able to fill my own vases, I'm always perhaps too mean in my arrangements because I want blooms in the garden... Perhaps this is a lesson to plant more??? I don't think that's possible though.
Your muscari is gorgeous; definitely one to get in future.
I know what you mean - it's hard to take flowers from the garden. In this case, I had several large pots of tulips so a few missing weren't noticeable. The hellebores were covered up by the leaves by this point, there are 6 large lilacs with plenty of flowers, and I also had plenty of M. paradoxum. Multiple numbers of the same type of shrub make it easy to find enough fillers for bouquets with just a few showy flowers.
DeleteI'm not one for flowers in a vase but I could admire these displays all day long. Very creative!
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