A bouquet needn’t be huge. In fact, dainty arrangements are often best at the table, where you don’t want to be looking through the greenery to see your dinner companion. This dainty pitcher, made by a local clay artist, is only two and a half inches tall.
Nor does it need to be floral. This little posy is made up entirely of foliage: a dark Heuchera leaf and another that is H. ‘Marmalade’, two sprigs of Artemisia ‘Silver Brocade’ and three leafy tips from Weigelia ‘Wine and Roses’.
Put it on a different background and its whole character changes. Of course part of that is the camera adapting to different light readings too.
But I am partial to the look of the high gloss Alizarin Crimson of our coffee table as a background.
Do check in with Cathy to see what she and others have found to put in a vase this Monday.
Pretty arrangement and so fun you got to use Alizarin Crimson in a sentence.
Lovely, Ricki. It has a definite retro feel, like a bouquet you’d see in a book from the 1950s. Very sweet.
That is super Rikki – and goes to show why I and others are enjoying this meme so much. There are just so many possibilities for containers – vase, jug, teapot, bucket, box, etc – and what a range of sizes we have seen too 🙂 Then we get the props and the location – so thank you for showing the effect of different backgrounds. And of course it can be blooms, foliage or both or twigs, stones, feathers, fruit – whatever we can forage from our gardens. AND I have googled to find out what ‘Alizarin Crimson’ is!! Such fun all round 🙂
I like your foliage bouquet in the tiny pitcher and it was interesting to see how the different backgrounds change the effect. Nice! Susie
Very nice, and cool–foliage instead of flowers. Backgrounds sure do make a difference.
You’ve found great foliage contrasts. I like the idea of foliage bouquets too. As flowers “melt” under the summer heat in my own garden, I may even resort to succulent bouquets.
A beautiful diminutive foliage arrangement! You have such a talent for considering things in a variety of ways.
Oh. I love this, nice job Ricki! I’ve got to remember to join up with this Monday meme sometime soon.
This is fun Ricki, small IS beautiful!
Shirley~Hah…your art background is showing(?)
Grace~I didn’t think of it as retro, but that’s an interesting slant.
Cathy~I love your wide-open attitude, and thanks for starting this. It IS fun.
Susie~Thanks. Context is everything.
Hoov~I’m a foliage kind of gal.
Kris~Ooh…succulent bouquets: I like the sound of that.
Peter~I blush.
Loree~You should…your take is always refreshing.
Christina~Small, big…s’all good!
I love all your foliage/flower arrangements. I’ve got as far as putting a vase on my table outside …now for something to fill it.
Linda~Filling it should be no problem for you.
That’s really effective, and a good reminder that the small arrangements are not to be forgotten, they are brilliant for using blooms with short stems or for brightening up small or crowded spaces. I have a single dahlia bloom in a bud vase in the chaos of my desk.
Janet~Great minds, and all that…I am looking at a single Zinnia currently perking up the clutter of my work area. It makes me smile.