The theme for FLOWERS this week is Bouquets of Herbs.
I think we all love herbs - growing them in the garden or in pots on the window sill, picking them to use in food and drinks, chopping them up and cooking with them - in general herbs are a delight and they will brighten up any dish you create in your kitchen.
Or like here using them as flowers and making lots of pretty little arrangements.
The herbs I used in the bouquets are:
- Chives
- Dill
- Mint
- Parsley
- Rosemary
- Sage
- Thyme
In the background - and just for pleasure and not used in the bouquets - are two potted herbs - Lavender with lots of lovely flowers and Thyme.
As background I used an old hessian coffee sack from my grandfathers country store and a rag rug woven by my great-grandmother, and I even found my aunts old school writing slate board and wrote 'HERBS' on it.
Conditioned the herbs I did more or less the same as I do with flowers - except that I left a lot of the leaves lower down on the short stems.
I tied a short piece of different coloured ribbon around each jar but kept the colours to green and grey. The ribbons are from Jane Means ribbon collection.
When I arranged the herbs in the jars I wanted to have as many different textures as possible - so I happily mixed large leaves with small leaves and added long chives, dill and stems of rosemary for height.
The dill flowers had such a phenomenal texture and so much grace that they got their own little vintage bottle.
Here is a link to all the previous FLOWERS Titti and I have done so far.
You can also find all the images on my Pinterest.
Have a Wonderful floral Day!
I hope you are having a lovely summer!
I hope you are having a lovely summer!
See you on Friday for 'A Bunch for the Weekend'.
xoxo Ingrid
6 comments:
Bonjour chère amie,
J'ai manqué plusieurs de vos publications ! Aussi tranquillement en sirotant ma tasse de thé je me suis agréablement promenée dans votre jardin !
Vos photos sont toujours magnifiques et vos idées astucieuses.
En ce moment je serai moins présente et ce jusqu'en septembre.
Je vous souhaite un bel été.
Gros bisous ♡
Everything here is so beautiful, Ingrid!
I especially love the lavender.
It is one of my very favorite summer flowers.
Happy day to you, my friend! xo.
I think of the smell when you were arranging these herbs.
Hi, good morning -
so lovely and fragrance!!!!
wonderful! I love fresh herbs
have a sunny and happy time
Elisabeth
Hi,
All your arrangements are small and very classy! I love them all.
Sajina
danke für die schönen bilder!!! alles liebe von angie
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