Cravings, for cutting flowers and greenery to make arrangements from our own garden, strike me every year about now ~ natural country type bouquets are my cup of tea, big huge ones, medium sized, comfortable ones and teeny, tiny ones too. Making bouquets feeds my creative side, I love building them!
This first bouquet is mostly pink Bergenia, a really old fashioned perennial that I remember from when I was a child and pink __________, yikes I can’t remember the name of this common native plant! It will come back to me shortly I hope. For filler I just used some native salal, I have planted a patch of it just to use for this purpose and it fills in a corner near the wood shed nicely as well.
Simple and a little sparse, but pretty…..
When I was younger and still dreaming of what I’d like to see us to do in our spare time, I would plan, dream and read everything I could on having a Flower Farm, acres & acres of flowers ~ I could envision the fields of peonies, irises, baby’s breath, dahlias and so many other gorgeous blooms. In our spare time? Silly thoughts of a young optimist – age seems to have changed me into an optimistic realist! Having given up on this idea a very long time ago, I have slowly introduced many of them into our gardens – now I’ve been thinking, why slowly ~ why not with abundance! So….., this spring I am going to start developing one area as a cutting garden, to supplement the flowers scattered throughout the garden beds. The outing to the nursery on the weekend got me started, I have a box full to plant!
The name is starting to return ~ a Ribes ____________. If you know, please leave me a comment! I know it will pop into my head – is it a red currant? I’m off to google it!
Hi Linda,
I can’t resist a blank. My Pojar – Makinnon offers Ribes sanguineum as the common native variety, but knowing your garden, its possibly something far more exotic. It is a red-flowering currant. Pretty bouquet! And don’t the leaves smell great?
Hugs,
Else
Thank you Else! That is it – I don’t know why I couldn’t remember that! It is the common native one that is so abundant and just starting it’s blooming period. I hadn’t realized that the leaves smell so good – you are so observant! and your garden is a flower arrangers paradise!
I spelled Mackinnon wrong!
E.
It made complete sense though, sometimes we read what we know we are suppose to see?!