Tiny Blooms - # 12 - Pink Roses and Eucalyptus

This series of blog posts - called 'Tiny Blooms - are about small flower arrangements. Small - might be the size of the container or it could be the size of the flowers or the amount of stems in each container. It will also be that the arrangement is minimal both in presentation and that it's quick and easy to do. Apart from that there are no other strict rules - I'm allowing myself a lot of creative freedom!

This week on 'Tiny Blooms' I'm featuring some pink roses and Eucalyptus foliage.

I have used a low wide container that is really the bowl of a black stone pestle and mortar. I very much liked the dark against the pink and the grey green foliage

I cut down the Eucalyptus into short little sprigs and I filled the bowl around the edge and in the middle creating a grid-like pattern to support the roses.   

The stems on this particular Eucalyptus has reddish pink stems and even the veins on the leaves are pink nicely picking up the pink in the roses.

I have added a few little extras - a Lotta Jansdotter fabric in grey and white, a roll of black garden twine, an old little pink spool with black thread and two vintage black wooden buttons.

Three pink roses from the supermarket, some grey foliage and a bowl from the kitchen is all you need to make a floral arrangement for your Monday morning!  

Have a Lovely Floral Day!

I'll see you later in the week with more flowers from 
'Of Spring and Summer'. 

~ xoxo ~

Ingrid 

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

Tiny Blooms - # 1 - Ornamental Cabbage

I'm starting another blog series or column - that I'm calling 'Tiny Blooms' and it will be about small arrangements. Small or tiny might be the size of the container or it could be the size of the flowers or the amount of stems in each container. It will also be that the arrangement is minimal both in presentation and that it's quick and easy to do. Apart from that there are no other strict rules - I'm allowing myself some creative freedom here!

In this the first 'Tiny Blooms' - I'm diving straight in and almost breaking some of the rules. 

I'm using some rather long-stemmed ornamental cabbage - you should have seen them before I got hold of them, they were twice as tall - BUT there are only three of them.

I have also reduced the flower head taking off the greener outer leaves and just leaving the really stunningly colourful ones in the centre. I also love the amazing colour on the stems and wanted to show part of them.

So after conditioning the flowers - I reduced the heads by taking off a lot of the lower leaves - I trimmed the stems so that they are in proportion to the container - and in this case allowing for some of the beautiful stems to show - rather then having the flower heads rest on the edge of the container - as you probably normally would do.

I tried to tie some purple raffia around the stems - to hold the three stems together - but in the end decided that it didn't work - the heads looked too squashed together - instead I just let the three stems lean to one side. I didn't want a stiff arrangement and as I said before I wanted to show the stems. 

I changed from purple raffia to black twine and tied some around the neck of the cream ware container - just with a double knot and leaving the ends to casually hang down. 

Voilà - a seasonal, quick and easy arrangement - using some colourful 'tiny blooms'.

  Have a Lovely Floral Day!

~ xoxo ~

Ingrid 

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