Green as grass
Lovely and oh so summery: various corn sheaf tied summer bouquets. Starting with the fresh grasses, each with summer flowers twisted at the same height. Finally, a border of grass is tied around it. In this way fresh summer bouquets are created, an atmospheric decoration of a summer garden dinner. Materials used: Panicum, dill (Anethum graveolens), sunflower, aquilegia and various native plants from the garden or roadside.
Nature at its best
The white bowl is filled with unusual stones with holes formed by nature. They come from the Normandy coast where the holes were created by wind and sea. The stones give hold to the branches and flowers inserted through the holes and between the stones in a natural line. Nature at its best. Materials used: Magnolia, Tulipa, Ornithogalum thyrsoides, Panicum virgatum, Lunaria annua.
Spring Messenger
In a beautiful earthenware oval pot, Oasis TerraBrick was used as a base at the bottom, In this, dried grass (Panicum virgatum) from the winter garden was inserted and sandwiched. Between the dry grass, spent branches from the garden (Spirea japonica, Solidago, Lunaria annua) have been inserted, giving a beautiful winter silhouette. Spring is revealed in the subtle shape and color of the dwarf iris bulbs. Up close, this frilly soft yellow Iris 'Katharine's Gold' has beautiful bright yellow with blue markings.
Roots
A dried root system of an old rosemary bush was used upside down as a frame for this natural-looking bouquet in shades of pink, white and green. All the flowers and grasses have been given their own place and thus stand out beautifully. Materials used: Tulipa, Panicum virgatum fresh and dried, Lunaria annua, Scabiosa BonBon Scoop 'French Vanilla', Alstroemeria florinca 'White Pearls', Ranunculus 'Pon Pon Malva', Ranunculus 'Charm Pink', Agapanthus 'Glacier', cherry blossom, Anethum graveolens, Chasmanthium latifolium.
Circles
One hundred Aspidistra leaves are coiled and pinned together to form a large organic circle. This whole remains independent and is placed in a round water dish with a structure of many small circles. Into the Aspidistra circle are inserted the flowers; they stand directly in the water. Used are: Clematis 'Amazing Miami', Panicum 'Heavy Metal', Eryngium 'Sirius Questar', Polianthes 'Epic Elsa', Helleborus 'Bella Belles', Ranunculus and Muscari.
Grown
Salix branches bent in a u-shape are fixed with 1.8mm braided wire. A refined selection of flowers is placed at different heights in this frame and bound corn sheaf: Chaenomeles, Nerine, Gloriosa superba 'Simba Fifty Shades', Ranunculus 'Butterfly', Scabiosa 'Bon Bon Scoop French Vanilla', Talinum 'Long John', Tulipa jonquieres, Panicum 'Heavy Metal' and Limonium 'China White'.