Garden History
Here is a mixed bouquet from Sam’s Club. I was drawn to the wonderful blue agapanthus and deep red gerbers so I bought it with an experiment in mind. How many arrangements could I make with all this material: 4 red gerber daisies, 5 red alstromeria, 3 blue agapanthus, 3 blue delphinium, 3 eucalyptus, […]
Seventh arrangement – this is probably my favorite. So simple, yet the glass makes the daisies step up in style. These yellow daisies caught up in some long grass perk up any nook and cranny.
At first you look at this arrangement of all red with greens and think Christmas. But think again. The vase is neutral and when you put this piece in the same room as the red gerbers, it just carries the color with the eye following. If you wanted to use this arrangement in a […]
Four Gerber Daisies each in a bubble glass bud vase. You can put them in a line on a table, at the place setting of each of your guests, split them up and bring them back together again. Their little heads love to talk and have fun.
The Agapanthus and Delphiniums are so beautiful, so different from each other, one round and the other straight and tall. Great counterpoints to the small mass of yellow poms that they surround. The container plays off their colors too.
The last of the dissected arrangement. What is left is one stalk of eucalyptus. I put this in a vase which reminds me of a pen and ink stand And one stalk of delphinium which I took apart and put the flowerets in a little white china bowl filled with a bath of water. […]
