Florets - Floral Quote - # 54 - by Louise Curley

"Use your imagination when it comes to what to put your flowers in. Although you may have a suitable tall plain glass vase in your home, there are so many other containers you could use that will add a touch of individuality and quirkiness to your display. 

The only really essential requirement of a vase is that it is watertight. It is best not to pick something with a wide neck or one that is very big. It will take a considerable number of flowers to fill them, and they will be difficult to arrange and will tend to be quite floppy, because the container will not be able to provide enough support."

~ Louise Curley ~

[Louise Curley: British, freelance writer & journalist, gardener and author of The Cut Flower Patch. She has also been writing the blog Wellywoman since 2011.]

[Quote: From The Cut Flower Patch by Louise Curley.]

[Containers: Vintage bottles and jugs.]

[Other props: Fabrics by Sarah Hardaker.]

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

Wishing You A Wonderful Floral Sunday!

Hope to see you back here soon!

xoxo Ingrid

Floral Styling - A Simple Flower Arrangement - # 4 - Green Tulips and Blue Hyacinths

This is the fourth instalment in my series called Floral Styling - A Simple Flower Arrangement and this time I have used some fabulous green parrot tulips and purple hyacinths. 

As soon as I got home from the farmers' market - I conditioned the flowers and left them outside in the cold to have a good drink. 

I knew I wanted to do some strong colour contrasting and started by putting together all my props - vases etc. I went for two vintage very dark blue apothecary glass bottles and a smaller lighter blue.  

In this case I knew I couldn't use the bottles as vases - the neck is too narrow and both tulips and hyacinths have thick fleshy stems - and for this occasion the two bigger bottles were also too tall. 

I like the look of the fleshy stems and in particular the colour of the stems on the hyacinths. So the vase I went for was a square clear glass vase - perfect for a short squat arrangement.   

I stripped off all the leaves on both flowers and I also cut the stems quite short. I wanted the flower heads of the hyacinths to rest on the edge of the vase. The two flowers are mixed randomly - because I didn't want it to look too arranged.

I used nine stems of hyacinths and twelve parrot tulips - just enough to make a perfect size arrangement for a table.

The contrasting colours work well together and the dark blue bottles makes a stunning backdrop.  

Here are links to the three previous posts in the series. 
Post # 1 has an introduction to the series. 

Floral Styling - A simple Flower Arrangement # 3 - Eucalyptus and Pink Tulips

Floral Styling - A simple Flower Arrangement # 2 - Ornamental Cabbage

Floral Styling - A simple Flower Arrangement # 1 - 
White Delphiniums

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Have a Wonderful Floral Day!

Back soon!

xoxo Ingrid