The Last Bouquet?

I kept thinking this was probably the last big bouquet of the season as I arranged flowers Thursday for Museo Gallery's opening party tonight. The temperature was plummeting, wind gusting, and the rain starting to fall. A real October day, which means it's time to harvest the last of the hydrangeas and dahlias....This big bouquet actually needed three gardens to fill it out. I plundered some rusty-colored Sedum 'Autumn Joy' from a neighbor on one side, and a few dahlias from a neighbor on the other. The mophead hydrangeas, crocosmia seed pods, and little purple-belled Clematis 'Roguchi' are from my garden. The vase was made by Whidbey Island ceramist Al Tennant; its mottled glaze sets off the rich, subdued colors of the flowers, fruit and grasses.

It was lovely to arrange flowers while the rain beat against the windows and the wind "wuthered" around the house. October is my favorite month, autumn the season I love best, yet it's a little melancholy to think I'll be buying flowers for every Museo opening for the next five months. No that the garden won't flower, but the Camellia sasanqua, Viburnum tinus 'Spring Bouquet', witch hazel's  fragrant little blooms, snowdrops, and hellebores won't be enough to make an extravagant, heart-healing bunch. It won't be until April, when the narcissus, daphne, bleeding heart, and fritillaria come on full tilt that I'll be able to gather glorious big bunches of flowers from the garden again.

I do love the colors of autumn, collected here in black hypericum berries,  sedum and pennisetum blooms. The hydrangea petals add bulk and the feeling of movement. The red and orange dahlias spark the more muted tones of the other flowers.

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[Send Roses Philippines]

Nice! beautiful flowers i like it so much.Will certainly visit your site more often now.

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