Wonderful. And now that I have tried it, creating a bouquet of flowers to sit in one's hand is actually a lot harder than it looks. I did take a walk through our meadow on Wednesday and hope to show some of what I came up with soon. Except for the goldenrod, I think we have mostly different flowers.
So interesting - looking forward to seeing what you've got in your meadow and how it differs from ours! I'm glad you tried the hand bouquet - it IS indeed harder than it looks and usually a frustrating process.. but when it all clicks into place - with a shutter click to make it official - it feels amazing!
Will be so interesting to explore your wild plants there. The fern is strange - never seen that before and unlike any here. Your yellow sorrel is poss the Upright yellow-sorrel Oxalis stricta here in UK, introduced from North America, non-native, but our native Wood-sorrel is white, the low growing one that speckles under the trees in spring. I think the grass may be a couch grass or a perennial rye. I’m wondering what you might find growing in the meadow in spring.
The fern is indeed very strange but for me, it makes the bouquet particularly special... looks almost like caviar in botanical form. The fern looks beautiful when it is fully unfurled, almost like a house plant, we'll look up close at everything when you get here, I can't wait! And yes our wood sorrel is oxalis stricta - the most delicious wild edible green. I love your native wood sorrel too - so pretty.
I did comment earlier what a nice addition to your great hand bouquet series, but it seems to have disappeared - all are so tenderly composed. We enjoy our bouquet print every day. S
Wonderful. And now that I have tried it, creating a bouquet of flowers to sit in one's hand is actually a lot harder than it looks. I did take a walk through our meadow on Wednesday and hope to show some of what I came up with soon. Except for the goldenrod, I think we have mostly different flowers.
So interesting - looking forward to seeing what you've got in your meadow and how it differs from ours! I'm glad you tried the hand bouquet - it IS indeed harder than it looks and usually a frustrating process.. but when it all clicks into place - with a shutter click to make it official - it feels amazing!
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Will be so interesting to explore your wild plants there. The fern is strange - never seen that before and unlike any here. Your yellow sorrel is poss the Upright yellow-sorrel Oxalis stricta here in UK, introduced from North America, non-native, but our native Wood-sorrel is white, the low growing one that speckles under the trees in spring. I think the grass may be a couch grass or a perennial rye. I’m wondering what you might find growing in the meadow in spring.
The fern is indeed very strange but for me, it makes the bouquet particularly special... looks almost like caviar in botanical form. The fern looks beautiful when it is fully unfurled, almost like a house plant, we'll look up close at everything when you get here, I can't wait! And yes our wood sorrel is oxalis stricta - the most delicious wild edible green. I love your native wood sorrel too - so pretty.
I did comment earlier what a nice addition to your great hand bouquet series, but it seems to have disappeared - all are so tenderly composed. We enjoy our bouquet print every day. S
Thank you, that is great to hear! I'm very glad to be back in the flow of making these again...