Today I did a few table arrangements and a bridal bouquet for a small intimate wedding at the Mayne Island Resort. It was a fun little job…sometimes the small ones are the most fun. The table arrangements were an island gardeny combination of beautiful Stargazer lilies, pink and reddy/orange roses, grasses, lady’s mantle, grapevine, rosemary [. . .]
flowers
another lily bouquet
This lily is called “Scheherazade”. I wonder how it got it’s name? Perhaps to give people like me the idea that we shouldn’t cut it? ooops….but it’s such a beautiful flower and makes a gorgeous wildly natural looking bouquet. I made this one a couple days ago. Perhaps next year I shall leave them alone, [. . .]
crocosmia and parsley
Every summer, I can’t wait for the crocosmia to bloom. It must be one of my favourite perennial flowers in the garden. The hummingbirds love it and so do the bees. The bees and other beneficial bugs also love the Italian broad-leaf parsley that I try to let go to flower at the same time [. . .]
pretty pink peonies
The peony plants that I planted 3 years ago flowered enthusiastically this year! They really made me wait and finally my patience has been rewarded with amazing blooms to use in my arrangements. I made this one yesterday for an island business. What a treat! a variety of pink peonies, hydrangea branches with young flowers, [. . .]
daffodil bouquets
I’ve been making the first garden flower arrangements of the season lately….spring has sprung and things are getting busy! These bouquets were sold at Happy Tides last week and I’m making more this week. Daffodils, star magnolia branches with big fat buds that are beginning to open into white flowers, alder branches with new bright [. . .]