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A display of twigs, ferns, and flowering bulbs: Three simple ingredients that add up to a breath of fresh air in a spring vase.
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How-To: Slow Flowers Bouquets
Make pretty, rustic bouquets with flowers from your yard or the famers market
Written by Debra Prinzing
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Slow Flowers
One of the joys of gardening is to step out my back door and clip a few sprigs to bring inside. The day's prettiest blooms and just-unfurled leaves – gathered simply into a bunch and displayed in a jar of water – provide everything I need to start the day. The tiny arrangement graces my kitchen counter or brightens a spot by the keyboard, connecting me with the natural world even when I'm stuck indoors, away from my beloved garden.
Is this floral design? I guess it is, but like many avid gardeners, I certainly never considered myself a florist. When I began a weekly flower arranging ritual, though, I discovered that there is great satisfaction in choosing blooms, foliage and other botanical elements – and then assembling them into a beautiful composition in just the right vase.
As each season unfolded, so, too, did my passion for floral design. My experiment turned into Slow Flowers, a season-by-season, week-by-week book of ideas and inspiration for gardeners and DIY floral designers. My goal was to use only seasonal ingredients from my personal garden or blooms grown by local cut flower farms.
A vase can be a little garden, its contents gathered and arranged to please the eye. So give it a try. Design a bouquet. Channel your inner floral designer and begin your own year with slow flowers.
Slow Flowers: Four Seasons of Locally Grown Bouquets from the Garden, Meadow and Farm (St. Lynn’s Press).
Written and photographed by Debra Prinzing
St. Lynn's Press, 2013
$16.95
144 pages, hardcover
Photography: courtesy of Debra Prinzing
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