Clockwise, starting at bottom: inula sp., spirea, daisy, seed bract, yarrow, catmint, daisy fleabane, hosta flower, butterfly weed, nodding onion, and tall border phlox in the middle.
ere’s my bouquet of the week, picked on Saturday. For my “something wild” I have daisy fleabane and the
inula, which just showed up in the chicken yard, though some people grow it as a garden plant. The “something weird” also counts as “something wild”: the chartreuse seed bracts from a tree growing wild in the
Secret Garden. I am sure it is some kind of scrub tree that shows up in the transition from field to forest, but I haven’t figured it out yet. (Note: I removed all the leaves so the bracts would show up better.) Spireas and hydrangeas get my vote as two shrubs that can provide a lot of blooms for bouquets, and they are easy to grow.
I’m a member of the Garden Appreciation Society: The idea is to appreciate our own gardens more this year. To have a daily reminder of the bounty that our gardens provide. To catch a glint of beautiful color out of the corner of our eye while standing in the kitchen, or the bedroom or the living room. Every week, go out in the garden and cut a few flowers or interesting foliage and bring it in your house to display. Take a photo of it and link it at The Impatient Gardener.
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About the Author
Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She would be delighted to speak to your group about colchicums or other gardening topics. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002.
What differentiates a bulb from a perennial plant is that the nourishment for the flower is stored within the bulb itself.…There is something miraculous about the way that a little grenade of dried up tissue can explode into a complete flower.
~Monty Don
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The Complete Gardener pp. 142
Wow! This is a nice bouquet, Kathy. Great choice of flowers. I also love making my own flower bouquets. I would love to try this. Thanks a lot!
Aprilš
Kathy I love this idea…I don’t usually do this but said I would try more to cut flowers and bring them in…i will try to get a few this summer…
Have you considered a wall vase? They aren’t common but they can be found. I bought one at Gardenscape, the Rochester Home and Garden Show. I think I’ve seen them offered mailorder, too, in home decor type catalogs and websites.
I tend not to make bouquets for the house because our cat always knocks them down, but this post has really inspired me to make a bedroom bouquet. The cat is not allowed in the bedroom; he tends to dance on our heads at 4 am. Thank you.