Sunday Leftovers
I used to do an album on facebook called Sunday Leftovers. It was vases of leftover flowers from our market sales for the week. Recently I haven't had many flowers that were leftover for me to play around with and enjoy in our house. Which is REALLY great! But this week has been very slow for flower sales for our designers and from the farmers' market. It wasn't just us but all the vendors had a slow day, guess people are on vacation as school just got out for the summer. Having a few flowers around the house is really nice but having flowers in every room is not so great from a marketing point of view.
Jane over at SmallButCharming /http://flwrjane-smallbutcharming.blogspot.com/ is hosting flowers in the house today. Here are a few of the flowers in our house.
My husband challenged me to include some blackberries in one of my arrangements so donning a pair of leather rose gloves, there are leaves and berries of the Himalayan Blackberry in this vase. Pretty but dangerous, oh the thorns.
Raspberry sherbert is what I think of when I use these flowers together. Very bright and cheery, good because it has been raining and gloomy so far this summer.
Odds and ends flowers, not artfully arranged but they brighten up a corner of the kitchen and isn't that what flowers should do for us.
A vase of the blues........
So hop over to Jane's house and see her beautiful flowers and all the other great flower people's designs.
Wow I've just had my first sip of coffee and my first eyeful of your flowers.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. Love the colors, the combos and of course the raspberries.
I'm not usually a lily lover but what a beauty that one is.
Thank you for getting my morning off to such a fantastic start.
xo Jane
Thanks Jane, that's a new lily for us and was very popular. I snagged the only one left. Thank you for hosting.
DeleteBeautiful! I hope next weekend is busier for you.
ReplyDeleteThank you. We hoping too. Keep wishing for sunny weather here.
DeleteBeautiful arrangements and colors. Those lilies look like velvet!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much! They do look like velvet up close. Camera isn't doing them justice.
DeleteOh my gosh, beautiful1 So unrestrained. Wonderful.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much.
DeleteMay next week be better, your vases empty but pockets full. They are glorious all.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much. Full pockets is nice but being a flower nut, I just want others to enjoy the flowers as much as they give us pleasure.
DeleteWe ordered raspberry vines from California a few years ago to design with and ended up eating all the fruit!!! I love the berry foliage when it's so fresh.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much. The berries are so very yummy when they are ripe. The vines are just loaded with thorns so it makes for dangerous picking. But the jam is worth it in December.
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ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful especially love the iris one.
DeleteThanks Kathleen.
DeleteOh your iris! They are so so pretty! (I know we share the love of all flowers purple but those are just too dreamy!)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much. We do love the purples and blues.
DeleteI like your blog and your flowers! Beautiful ones!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Alicia.
DeleteBeautiful colors in that first arrangement. The lily is fantastic! I don't know the white lacy white flowers. Is it some kind of hydrangea?
ReplyDeleteThank you so much. The lily is a new variety for us and has been very popular. The white lacy flowers are orlaya. Also a new flower for us.
DeleteYou are brave to work with blackberry. I've been dodging the thorns to pick berries lately, but cannot imagine trying to maneuver the vines in a vase. Bravo!
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