The garden is so generous right now, with an abundance of flower, fruit and foliage for arrangements. A dangling cane of raspberries looks gorgeous in a vase and speaks of the ripeness of the season in a single branch.
Bouquets are amped up by colors that grow more intense as the weather cools; even better, many materials dry naturally when cut this late in the year, so arrangements last longer.
All too often, we arrange flowers in spring when we're so excited about the garden, but too often forget to do it now. But bringing the garden indoors is even sweeter in autumn, when such luxuries will be over so soon. Fall offers sunflowers, rudbeckia, hydrangeas, sedum and grasses which combine into lovely, hazy, impressionistic bouquets.
The arrangement below is a jumble of colors and textures, including blue mahonia berries, little fox-tailed pennisetum flowers, a fuzzy-topped Italian purple artichoke, orange dahlias, hydrangeas, Sedum 'Autumn Joy', golden ligularia flowers, and some pruned branches from a Japanese maple.
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