Flowers Lately

* Making a flower crown as a test for a friends wedding. Rosemary, carnation, chrysanthemum, sedum, lambs ear.

* A little jug of leftovers from crown making.

* A new awesome vase from the junk shop! Filled with roses, zinnias, buddleia, elderflower, potato vine from the garden.

* A birthday bouquet for my Mumma also from the garden. Rose, elderflower, fennel, lambs ears and white salvia plus some cuttings from a stunning weeping lime coloured tree that I don't know the name of.
* Mummas birthday cake. A lemon and blueberry number, filled with lemon curd and iced with cream cheese icing.

Do you hear that?

Rain! Finally! Oh... and radio silence from me. We've finally jumped into Christmas here and will be doing a fair bit of travelling over the next 2 weeks (3 states to be precise!). So probably more quiet from me is to be expected. But here are a couple more flower arrangements I've done recently, and hopefully I find my blogging mojo again in the New Year. Merry Christmas lovely readers.

 Sunflower, allium, onion, elderflower, fennel, artichoke, succulents, borage and queen annes lace all from my garden.

Lilly, eucalyptus, lavender, bottlebrush from a friends garden (who lets me pick his flowers and put flower arrangements in his house!) sadly only captured on an iphone.

Homegrown Bouquet

The artichoke is still going. What an amazing thing.
Lambs ears, a bedraggled looking rose (they're sick!), Euphorbia and no idea what the little yellow guy is.
Allium drumstick and flowering lambs ears.
A stray almost neon poppy, Queen annes lace and almost neon blue penstemon.
And I did a little wedding floristry practice with the tape I bought and made a wee button hole (again with a rather sorry looking rose).

Homegrown Bouquet

Actually this one is more of a vignette and the artichoke was homegrown in my mums garden. A sweet card from a friend, one of Tim's old seashells from his collection, the egg and the nest were both found separately in our garden, so was the feather.

Homegrown bouquet

This week's homegrown bouquet, just queen annes lace - and me practicing to make a proper bridal shaped bouquet, with jute wrap and everything! Note to self - strip all excess leaves before wrapping with thin string!