It matters not a bit which flowers you use to create a color bouquet - just get out there and clip the colors that stir you and mix them together for an evocation of summer finally arrived.
This simple bouquet, cut this morning and popped into a vase, is all about the purple and deep bourdeax shadows of a summer dusk, and the bright golden sun of mid-day, with no mitigating shades in between to dampen the contrasts.
Elaborate bouquets are unnecessary in summer when flowers are so fresh …now arrangements can be as casual and welcome as a cool breeze blowing through the house. An overwrought bouquet looks as out-of-date as an Ivana Trump sculpted hairdo, or worse yet as passé as fake nails (have you seen those disturbing reverse French manicures? No bouquet could be as bad as that!)… You get the idea….as spontaneous as a tossed salad just cut from the garden, as simple as a shift dress and flips on a hot day…
The dark purple sweet peas are tantalizing fragrant, the 'Hadspen Blood' astrantia adds texture. The summer shout out of golden Peruvian lilies and nasturtiums is bright, brazen, cheerful and no more subtle than the sun at high noon on a clear day in July....
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