Florets - Floral Quote - # 100 - by Shane Connolly

"Nothing epitomizes spring more than blossom. I love each and every variety as it comes into its own, but perhaps nothing is quite so uplifting as watching the first piece of single blossom slowly opening at home. Then you feel that spring is really on the way even if snow is falling outside."

~ Shane Connolly ~  

[Shane Connolly: florist and event designer, he designed the flowers for the Duchess of Cambridge's wedding in 2011, author of three books - A Year in Flowers, Table Flowers and The Language of Flowers.]

[Quote from: A Year in Flowers (2012).]

[Flowers: Prunus branches with pink spring blossom.]

[Styling and photography © Ingrid Henningsson/Of Spring and Summer.]

Enjoy your flower arranging and have a fabulous floral Sunday!

I will be back next week with more floral delights from Of Spring and Summer.

Ingrid

~ xoxo ~

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Florets - Floral Quote - # 77 - by Shane Connolly

"I also learnt that exuberance is not autumn's only attribute. It can be subdued, with the calm, gentle colours of fading hydrangeas; the milky white and blush pink of snowberries; the parchment shades of mushrooms or the papery browns and buffs of hornbeam and beech." 

~ Shane Connolly ~ 

[Shane Connolly: florist and event designer, he designed the flowers for the Duchess of Cambridge's wedding in 2011, author of three books - A Year in Flowers, Table Flowers and The Language of Flowers.]

[Quote from: A Year in Flowers.]

[Flowers: Hydrangea and pink Snowberries.]

[Vases: Swedish vintage Gustavsberg jar.]

[Vintage props: Vintage handwoven rag rug from Sweden.]

[Styling and photography © Ingrid Henningsson for Of Spring and Summer.]

Have a Wonderful Floral Sunday!

~ xoxo ~

Ingrid 

Florets - Floral Quote - # 67 - by Shane Connolly

" I can never decide if peonies are a spring finale or a precursor to summer. Perhaps it's because they appear in the flower markets long before they open in the cooler climate of the garden. Either way they gently blur the seasonal edges and i quite like that. 

Luckily they look wonderful; with the last tulips of spring or with the first flowers of summer. Or, and this is my favourite way, completely on their own.

There are few flowers so completely sumptuous, and quite frankly, as buxom, as a fully open double peony. A wide range of beautiful colours gives them very different characters but these exquisite shell pink specimens are without doubt the refined, couture-clad princesses of the peony world."

~ Shane Connolly ~

[Shane Connolly: florist and event designer, he designed the flowers for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding in 2011, author of three books - A year in Flowers, Table Flowers and The Language of Flowers.]

[Quote from: A Year in Flowers.]

[Flowers: Pink Peony 'Sarah Bernhardt'.]

[Vase: Clear glass laboratory bottles.]

[Painted wooden board and marble table.]

[Styling and photography © Ingrid Henningsson for Of Spring and Summer.]

Have a Wonderful Floral Sunday!

See you again next week!

xoxo Ingrid

Florets - Floral Quote # 43 by Shane Connolly

"Cyclamen are incredibly popular winter houseplants. They deserve to be as they are so easy to grow and have a broad colour range. Large trays of flowery cyclamen plants seem irresistible, but a few lonely pots seldom look as good when you get them home. Then I discovered a new way of enjoying them: I harvest the flowers and use them for cut arrangements instead. They last very well; the plant keeps producing flowers on the windowsill out of sight; and I can have little vases to enjoy around the house. Somehow these small but intense clusters of flowers capture the enticing vibrancy of the potted version en masse."

~ Shane Connolly ~

[Shane Connolly: Florist and event designer, he designed the flowers for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding in 2011, author of A Year in Flowers, Table Flowers and The Language of Flowers.]
[Quote: From A Year in Flowers.]
[Flowers: White Cyclamens with some white heather in the background.]
[Container: Vintage cream coloured wash bowl.]
[Other Props: Vintage French louvre doors.]
[Styling and photography: Ingrid Henningsson for Of Spring and Summer.]

Have A Wonderful Floral Day!

See you soon.

xoxo Ingrid