So we all know how to follow a recipe for a quick lunch: slice two tomatoes … prepare a vinaigrette … etc etc
But how about a recipe for a rapid bouquet? because that is what I did this week, when I had guests arriving and only five minutes to pull together some flowers.
To make this delicious bouquet for four you will need:
3 white jugs, of various sizes
half a dozen sprigs of old-variety roses
three branches of black elderflower
a couple of foxgloves
and a few annual poppies.
Fill your jugs with water, and cut the flowers to suitable lengths for the height of your pitchers. Be sure to leave some branches about five inches longer than others to create interest.
This is a casual country bouquet, so don’t cut the leaves of the stems, you need bulk and movement.
Line the jugs up side by side and pop the stems inside, alternating as you go and keeping an eye on the overall shape and spread of your bouquet.
Decide where to display your arrangement, turn the jugs in the right direction and if you wish, you can lay a stem on the table or console beside the jugs … it makes the whole thing look effortless, which of course it is!
Hope that you are enjoying flowers too this weekend, whether you are at the height of summer or heading into winter.
Thank you for reading me.
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Stunning! Absolutely stunning. I can almost smell the beautiful scent of the peonies through the Internet!
Stunning…..that was also my word but I see Jackie thought the same. It is REALLY beautiful!!
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Just lovely! As always, you don’t disappoint!! We all want to create that casual, effortless look. Entertaining today is almost always done with a casual feel. Now all I need is 3 white ironstone pitchers/jugs. Guess I’d better head to Scott’s Antiques in Atlanta to find them!
I look forward to meeting you in Marietta.
Thank you, Vicky !
Looking forward to seeing you there.
best
Sharon
Thank you so much for always posting about something that brings beauty or interest into my life. To see flowers this week was nice, since I work as a florist and love how they can be spontaneous and always beautiful!! I like the contrast of the black with the pink.
Just beautiful!
Your arrangements are always so luscious and just quite soothing. Thanks for sharing. Coco
Love the flower arrangement and the sliced tomatoes sounds like a start to a lovely lunch. 🙂
Love the relaxed feel….beautiful. There is only one problem…..you need to have all the flowers to do something like this. Right now my garden is void except for Jasmine. I may have to do a little street marauding this evening. Some won’t even miss them since they only come once or twice a year! No, but am surely tempted.
Hi Sharon, your flowers are beautiful, just picked my last ones this week as we are pasted our shortest day for winter. Hoping to get back to France September 2017. Love your fabulous blog it always brightens my day. Regards Gillian
Hi Sharon, your flowers are beautiful, just picked my last ones this week as we are pasted our shortest day for winter. Hoping to get back to France September 2017. Love your fabulous blog it always brightens my day. Regards Gillian.In the middle of winter in New Zealand .
What beauty. You have the talent for knowing what works together.
Soft and elegant, however, french country classic! The foxglove is perfect! Lovely!
Hi Sharon, such beauty, you have made my day. Over here it’s cold and wet and bonus…I have a terrible cold. I have some really pretty pitchers sitting in my kitchen cabinet waiting for Spring and it’s beauty. I can just imagine how beautiful your home looks and the perfume in the air…delicious. Thank you for sharing beauty. Till next time regards Esther from Sydney. PS have a wonderful time in the US.
Lovely combination of flowers!
Happiness is having a friend on my street who tells me to feel free to pick any blooms I want from her garden, which is filled with specimens I don’t grow! It is a joy to add a few of her white hosta lilies and dancing columbines to my roses.
The little buds and feathery berry blossoms you’ve placed on the table–a charming sight!
The reader who wants to unsubscribe must not appreciate beauty in her life!! Can’t imagine as your blog is my all time favorite!
Such beautiful arrangements! Your garden must be brimming with blooms. Thank you for sharing, Sharon!
I love your bouquet! !!!!!
So pretty. The quaint white jugs really turn over the attention to the blooms.
Fresh flowers grom the garden are always lovely. Especially roses. These bouquets give something espacially.
Regards Janny
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So pretty, I have been searching for white jugs like these for vases at all the brocantes this summer, but so far have not found any! They look so pretty with any summer flowers. I shall keep looking!
So perfect,love the white jugs.I live on the Isle of Wight and am picking almost identical flowers at present but don’t have a black elder,must plant one as it contrasts so well.I inherited a white french casserole from my friend David Ellison creator ofTales of the Riverbank,I will try to arrange some peonies in this in memory of David.Thank you for the idea Sharon.
I love a garden bouquet, yours are stunning. I can almost smell the roses! ~ebh
With flowers, so often the simpler the better. What a charming arrangement!
Love your bouquets Sharon. And remind your readers that to make Poppies last more than half an hour in water they need to singe the Poppy stems for 15 seconds over a low flame.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful…
oh, le parfum qui sort de l’écran
stellar and utterly beautiful
coming home from a long Sunday, tired but happy, your flowers await me. I don’t know how you do it Sharon, but my huge garden is a total mess, all the roses are totally drenched, fouling on their stems, the marguerites are flattened to the ground, daylilies drooping sadly, but hey – the weeds are blooming and growing in all their glory!
thank you for this Sunday gift – bless you and have a happy, cheerful and flower-filled week. You made me happy!
Beautiful post! Love following your blog, Jamie Herzlinger
You are so lucky to be able to cut from your own garden. That must be such joy just walking around and thinking which ones to pick. Are the dogs walking with you?
Thank you, Petra.
They’re always somewhere nearby 🙂
best
Sharon
Sharon I love your blog especially when it relates to flowers. I’d love to know what flowers you grow, how many, and whether you have an actual cutting garden. It’s something I would like to create but don’t know where to start.
Lovely!
Gorgeous!