Creative Ways with Flowers - # 2 - Colourful Tulips, Ranunculus and Anemones

I love colour - well, almost all colours - I particularly like all the pinks and purples and the blues and lilacs. I often keep a very tight colour palette - that I find easier to work with and I still find it a challenge to combine strong colours from different ends of the spectrum.    

Here I have worked on combining some deep purple and bright orange double tulips - with bright orange ranunculus as well as some extremely dark anemones - they are so dark they look almost black.

All the flowers have interesting textures and colour variation in the petals. I like the fluffy foliage on the anemones and the little green pointy tips of the tulip leaves. It all helps to give a lot of interest to the arrangement.

I have cut the stems very short. All the flowers sit just above the edge of the vase - giving it a low and compact shape - perfect for a dining table, coffee table or side table.

I have used my old favourite vase - the Savoy vase designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. This one is a mini one just 10 cm tall - but perfect for small, short and sweet little flower arrangements. 

Enjoy your flower arranging and have a lovely floral Wednesday!

Me and Titti from HWIT BLOGG will be back on Friday with another FLOWERS - all about early white spring flowers for your table.

Ingrid

~ xoxo ~

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Creative Ways with Flowers - # 1 - Orange Flowers

Orange flowers is not everybody's favourite - and more often than not it's simply because a lot of people don't like the colour orange. 

Well, I quite like orange but I have to admit that it's not an easy colour to combine with other colours. The way a vase with orange flowers is so intense in colour that it almost jumps out at you. 

At the flower stall I found one of my favourite orange tulips and a mixed bunch of orange ranunculus ranging from an orange red to almost yellow.   

Orange is the hottest colour in the spectrum and it can be an intense and challenging colour to work with. So what I have done in most of my arrangements here - is that I have followed the colour-wheel and picked the complementary blue colour to contrast with the orange.  

For the first arrangement I have used a dark blue handmade glass vase - many years ago it was a wedding present from the glass blower herself. I made a loose arrangement with the orange tulips and the dark blue vase nicely complements the flowers. 

For the second arrangement I have used a pastel blue vintage jug from the 1930's. It's a little bit more of a challenging and unusual light blue colour that I'm using here to complement the orange ranunculus.

In the third I'm featuring a Swedish hand-blown glass bowl by Bertil Vallien. The tulip stems are cut very short and sits neatly upright next to each other in the bowl. 

For the last arrangement I had to cheat - I simply couldn't find a blue vase anywhere that would fit this mixed hand-tied bunch I made of the tulips and the ranunculus - so I used a vintage cut glass vase. But it ended up being the perfect size as well as nice and neutral. So it all had a happy ending!  

Enjoy your flower arranging and have a fabulous floral Wednesday!

I'll be back later in the week with more floral delights from 

Of Spring and Summer.

Ingrid

~ xoxo ~ 

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