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I have always been passionate about wildflowers, making wildflower bouquets for my own enjoyment for as long as I can remember.

I want to share my passion with others and show that beauty can be found in most unexpected places.

12/06/2022

Once again I got my wild florist urge while out with the dogs and this is the result. The original theme was 50 shades of green but at the end I added some delicate whites and pink of honeysuckle for the scent. Featured plants: bracken, male fern, rhododendron, larch, lady's mantle, wood avens, common knapweed developing shoots, beech twigs, cock's foot, soft rush, ground elder, cow parsley and honeysuckle.

30/04/2020

Spring is here and with it my creative flair. Today's bouquet has been assembled from plants found while out on bikes with the kids for our daily exercise. The various shades of green scream spring and the beautiful whites talk of the new beginning and something young and pristine. Not only is the bouquet exquisitely delicate, it is also fragrant as I used sweet cicely. If I was a spring bride this would be a serious contestant for a bouquet of my choice! The green base is formed of colt's-foot leaves, young fern fronds and wood avens and the whites are white dead-nettle and sweet cicely. A wee splash of blue forget-me-nots for an accent and as a symbology of an unforgettable day. I hope you will like it as much as I do:)
Yours
Wild Bouquets

27/10/2019

Today's bouquet is a wee commission, from a colleague of mine to another colleague of ours. It includes plants I tried in yesterday's bouquet and it expands on it with some last frost-hardy flowers from my garden and other structural plants. I love the mix of colours and the various stages of life the different plants are in. It was a great fun building the bouquet and as ever, it has turned from a small posy through a bunch of flowers into a full-blown bouquet which I had to use my biggest vase for. Now I have to figure out how to carry it on the train tomorrow....

I used corn marigold, calendula, ivy, hawthorn berries, dead heads of common knapweed and hawkweed, male fern, bracken, willowherb rosebay, tufted hair-grass, rhododendron, broom and what to me looks like a snowberry cultivar, but i can't be certain.

I hope it will put a smile on my colleague's face :)
Yours
Wild Bouquets

25/10/2019

Wow wow, where has the summer gone my friends? I have been busy with other things close to my heart so no wild bouquets since June, but I am back on now to show that even at the time of first frost and the imminent shut down for the winter there's beauty to be found, and colours so vivid they beat the summer palette. Today's bouquet started like many others, while walking the dogs. One by one the plants, some already dead, some withering and some very much alive, were presenting themselves, resulting in this ephemeral autumnal bouquet. I have robbed the birds of a few berries and seeds but plenty left for them to feed on.

I used cotoneaster, ivy with tender forming flowerheads, dead stems of hogweed, willowherb rosebay and garlic mustard, hawthorn twig heavy with berries, snowberry and bracken and the burst of scarlet comes from raspberry.

I hope you enjoy this slice of autumn with me.
Yours
Wild Bouquets

30/06/2019

Today I have set myself a challenge of making a wild bouquet of anything I find within my garden and here is the result. A nod to summer in all its glory. Personal favourite today (apart from oxeye daisies of course) are the young soft silvery shoots of Yorkshire fog.

The bouquet includes viper's bugloss, yellow loosestrife, oxeye daisy, yellow rattle, Yorkshire fog, rowan epicormic growth, red campion, false oat-grass, fern, plantain ribwort.

I am going to enjoy it for a few days, dreaming of lying in a meadow on a warm summer day, listening to the bird song and chewing on a stem of grass :)

Yours
Wild Bouquets

29/06/2019

Who wants to see some more wildflowers? Welcome to my garden :)

28/06/2019

It's midsummer and it's the time of plenty. The story of today's wild bouquet started by me taking the dogs out for a walk, I spotted some tutsan at the side of the path and before I knew it I was in a usual trance, momentarily removed from here and now. The bouquet is not only a clash of colours but also a clash of scents. The pleasant scent of elderflower mixing with the not-so-pleasant scent of hedge woundwort, which, despite its smell is a fabulously beautiful wildflower and good for the bees too! The umbelifers are the backbone of the bouquet, with hogweed, ground elder and cow parsley all mixed in with the rest of the summery loveliness. Personal favourite today are the twigs of bramble with the buds about to burst open, there is something very beautiful about them.

I thought I would just make a small possy today but alas, I ended up having to use a big jar to fit the bouquet in. Long may it last and long may last the summer, time to make elderflower cordial!

The plants used include bramble, ground elder, hogweed, ivy, elderflower, tutsan, hedge woundwort, red campion, meadowsweet, hoary willowherb, willowherb rosebay, touch-me-not balsam, cow parsley, garlic mustard, cock's-foot, false oat-grass, reed canary grass, docks.

I am glad I can share my piece of summer with you:)
Yours
Wild Bouquets

05/05/2019

Today's spring inspired wild bouquet. It's bursting with life everywhere these days, spring has definitely taken its hold now.

The bouquet includes sweet cicely, garlic mustard, flowering currant, broom, greater woodrush, beech twigs, honeysuckle, Solomon's seal and unfurled fronds of bracken, which I think are really beautiful. I am loving the different shades of green, the mauve of the honeysuckle, and the splashes of colour added by broom and flowering currant.

I hope you like it too!:)

Yours
Wild Bouquets

27/04/2019

These beauties arrived in post today, I can't wait to see them grow to end up in some beautiful wild bouquets! :) All wildflower species of Scottish origin.

26/04/2019

The inaugural post and the first bouquet for Wild bouquets. It started innocently as I took my dogs into the garden this morning and noticed that some willowherb rosebay shoots are coming through the grass. I have pulled these out and they were destined for the compost heap when the idea was born that they could be put to a better use. I looked around the garden some more and then along the walls and fence lines of my house and collected enough material for a spring wild bouquet.

I am pleased how it turned out and I will enjoy it in my living room for a few days. I am hoping I can show others how beautiful wildflowers are, despite many seeing them as nothing more than 'weeds', and that beauty really can be found in the most unexpected places.

I also want to show that a nice bouquet doesn't require hundreds, if not thousands of air or road miles.

All plants are harvested within the law, locally and sustainably so I can return to them in the future:)

The bouquet includes: willowherb rosebay shoots, epicormic growth of rowan, Spanish bluebells in three different colours (which my garden is full of), water avens, groundsel, hogweed, stinging nettle and some small white-flowered Brassica family plants (I need to polish my plant id skills!), which i see as a pretty alternative of gypsophila.

I take commissions, but please be aware that wildflower floristry is season-dependant and works with whatever plants are growing and flowering at the time. This also means that each bouquet is unique :)

Yours
Wild Bouquets

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