FLOWERS by ingrid and titti - Flowers and Candles

The theme for FLOWERS this week is 'Flowers and Candles' - very appropriate for this time of year and it being so close to Christmas.

Christmas can come in many different colours - here are some inspirational images using quite colourful flowers and fabrics - mixing new with vintage and some subtle hints of Christmas! 

This first pink arrangement has a mix of tulips, hyacinths and Ranunculus in a metal container.

For each image I have included - some flowers or foliage in vase or container, a contemporary patterned fabric and a candle holder that is either a candle stick or a tealight holder. This very simple arrangement consists of grey-green Eucalyptus foliage in a white Bertil Vallien Kosta Boda vase.

I have of course also included some small Christmas decorations - such as a couple of different wreaths in the background, some vintage golden Christmas tree baubles, as well as some new silver mini baubles.

Even this black and white fabric has snowflakes on it! 

The flowers are some dark pink Anemones in a matching pink glass vase. I have used this arrangement in a previous post - but here added the pink tea-light and vintage baubles.

This last arrangement has some Hyacinths on their own in a vintage zinc coffee pot.

I hope you have enjoyed my little bit of a different or alternative way of decorating for Christmas. There really is no wrong way of doing it - it's whatever takes your fancy and whatever makes you happy that is the most important!

Please, go over to Titti's blog and take a look at how she has interpreted the theme this week. Here is the link to her blog HWIT BLOGG.

I will be back on Sunday with another Florets - floral quotes by flower lovers.

Enjoy your flower arranging and have a great floral day!

~ xoxo ~

Ingrid

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FLOWERS by ingrid and titti - Autumn Wreath

For this week on FLOWERS - Titti and I are doing Autumn Wreath.

Here in my part of the world - the Hydrangeas are still in full bloom and it's such a beautiful late summer early autumn flower to make wreaths and arrangements with. 

I found some hydrangea in a gorgeous deep pink colour - and some ornamental cabbage that had a centre with the same colour. 

In addition I got a few branches of snowberries with clusters of lovely big round white berries.

As always - I conditioned everything and left the flowers and branches to recover in containers with deep water outside my kitchen door.

I didn't want to use wire, moss or evergreen foliage as a base - but went instead for a ready-made grapevine wreaths for making my autumn wreath. 

I wanted to make a wreath just using hydrangea flowers - so I started by cutting the big flower heads into smaller sections. I then used thin florists spool or reel wire and wired each individual head by winding the wire around each little stem. I then pushed the wire through the grapevine wreath and secured it at the back.

It's a wreath where you can replace the flower heads or you can leave it to dry. Hydrangeas continue to look good and the fuller you make it the better it will look when dried.

  

Ornamental cabbages are great to use in flower arrangements at this time of year. I found some with very long stems which meant that I could use them in a tall terracotta container. I did cut one down and used just the pink centre in a little green cup. 

Ornamental cabbage has beautifully multi-coloured leaves - the end of the stalks and the veins are deep pink against a lovely green background.  

Snowberries or Symphoricarpos - as they are called in Latin - is a shrub in the honeysuckle family - and they keep their unusual white berries long after the leaves are gone. 

I used them in two ways - leaving the stems long in a tall container and cut down very short in an old jam jar. I then put the jar in the middle of another small wreath. Just showing another way to use a ready-made wreath.  

Titti over on HWIT BLOGG is also posting her Autumn Wreath post today - so please - go over and see her take on the theme. 
You can look at our previous FLOWERS posts here and you can also see them on Pinterest.

Have a Wonderful Floral Day!

~ xoxo ~

Ingrid 

[Styling and photography © Ingrid Henningsson for FLOWERS by ingrid and titti and Of Spring and Summer.]

Floral Media # 10 Last Minute Christmas Inspiration

Stylish wreathes for your front door - Erin Boyle from Gardenista - took a walk around Brooklyn in New York and found some interesting and unusual stuff. It also looks like everybody has a black front door!

The British gardener, TV presenter and author Sarah Raven creates a white and silver table decorations scheme that sparkles in the candle light. 

Some more wreaths with bright red rose hips - they are quite wild but beautiful - by Kendra Wilson at Gardenista.

How about making a mini Christmas tree for your window sill? Minna Mercke Schmidt from Blomsterverkstad - shows you how to make one.

Christmas can be many colours - Claus Dalby has waved his magic wand and used some unusual but very beautiful colours. 

I love Linda Lomelino's work - and I have featured her before in this post - here she has made a Saffron Cinnamon Wreath - and taken some stunning photographs.

Photographs: 1. © Erin Boyle, 2. © Kendra Wilson, 3. © Minna Mercke Schmidt, 4. © Claus Dalby, 5. © Linda Lomelino 

Wishing You A Very Happy Floral Christmas!

See you soon again!

xoxo Ingrid