FLOWERS by ingrid and titti - Happy Midsummer!

It's midsummer and Titti and I would like to wish you all a Happy Midsummer!

I have put together a summer bouquet especially for today. It's full of frothy bright green Alchemilla mollis, dark coloured Astrantia and Aquilegia and some small bright pink Gladiolus italicus.

It's always something special about summer flowers. All of these are grown in Britain and again most of them are from Forever Green Flower Company.

Simply a perfect and lovely bunch to celebrate midsummer with.

Titti Malmberg - my Swedish based collaborator - who I work alongside on FLOWERS - also has a new post on her blog HWIT BLOGG - so please follow the link and go over and see what she has created.

Titti and I are taking a break over the summer and we will be back with more FLOWERS in August. 

Have a Very Happy Midsummer!

I'll see you next week with more floral delights from 'Of Spring and summer'. 

~ xoxo ~ 

Ingrid

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Floral Media - The Flower Appreciation Society Workshop and Book

'Not Your Average Florists' Anna Day and Ellie Jauncey are the team behind The Flower Appreciation Society and they have also just published their first book - The Flower Appreciation Society: An A to Z of All Things Floral.

Last Saturday I had the great pleasure of meeting the two lovely ladies, Anna and Ellie, and take part in their British Bouquet Making workshop at the GROW London contemporary garden fair on Hampstead Heath in London.

While they were checking their social media I took a few pictures of the fabulous British grown flowers they had brought in - all placed in oversized recycled pickling jars.

Every jar of flowers were a little bit different - an array of colourful British summer flowers with a few herbs mixed in.

I had already bought a copy of their lovely and fun book and they happily posed and signed it for me.

We were shown how to make a hand-tied bouquet - the kind you hold in one hand while adding the flowers with the other and the stems form a spiral. Looks easy but takes a little bit of practice to master - so every opportunity to try it is a step in the right direction. 

We all left happily carrying an oversized and wild looking flower bouquet full of seasonal colour.

Here is the final result - my bouquet at home - in a vase.

Anna and Ellie feature cut glass vases in their book and feeling inspired I went to dig out a few that I inherited from my grandmother. 

So here we are at the end of a great day - a perfect combination of beautiful summer flowers in a vintage cut glass vase.  

Enjoy your flower arranging!

Have a Great Floral Day!

I will see you later in the week with more Do-It-Yourself flowers from 'Of Spring and Summer'.

~ xoxo ~

Ingrid

[Styling (image 1,7 and 8) and Photography © Ingrid Henningsson/Of Spring and Summer]

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Flowers and Vintage Flickr Group - Summer Flowers

Image by Ingrid Henningsson for Of Spring and Summer

Ribbon from Jane Means collection.

Summer flowers - who doesn't love summer flowers weather they are from your own garden, picked from the side of the road or field out in the country or bought from the farmers' market or flower stall.

Life is easy and the sun is shining - or it's suppose to - but even if it's raining you enjoy the sound of the rain on the roof and you stay warm by the open fire.

I often feel that summer flowers are extra special - with delicate colours and wonderful textures. 

Here are ten simple and easy little summer arrangements to be inspired by.

Image By Ingrid Jansen at Wood and Wool Stool

Image by Katherine Morozova at Food and Life in Photos 

Image by Kathie Kirts

Image by Oksana Kiyan

Image by Ingrid Henningsson for Of Spring and Summer

Image by Ingrid Jansen at Wood and Wool Stool

Image by Constanca Cabral at Creative Homemaking with Constanca Cabral

Image by Jessica Enig at Such Pretty Things

Image by Ingrid Henningsson for Of Spring and Summer

All images are from my Flickr group Flowers and Vintage and they all link back to Flickr and the photographers blog or website.

I'm now back from my break and I'm slowly getting back to a routine of posting on a regular bases. 

See you later in the week!

xoxo Ingrid