Succulents, moss and shades of lilac

Managed to make time in between meetings with my brides this week for a little creativity.

I ordered Memory Lane roses (lavender blue-pink colour) and thought this would team well with astrantia in a deeper shade of pink. This offsets the slight colour of the sweetest echiveria plants I was wanting to use. To lighten the posy I used spring hellebores - decadent I know, as not the longest lasting flower but a total jewel and for some depth of colour I bought almost black anemones, which are only now just opening on my table. I had wanted to include my favourite spanish moss with its curly grey trails, a pretty dianthus which mimics a sweet pea and to finish off some green jasmine trails. The result was gorgeous, and these photos (taken with iphone) dont really do it justice...

Here you can see the spanish moss, dianthus, echiverea well, unfortunately the deep anemone is almost hidden but it accents well with these colours

..you can see what I mean about TEXTURE, MOSS and recessive colours...

New Year New Inspirations

December whizzed by, out in the studio I was surrounded by pine, moss, berried ivy, berried eucalyptus and it was all go. I'm immersing myself in research this month, seeing whats trending overseas and getting all excited and bursting to try some of the ideas I have. Despite all I have ever thought about them I now like carnations. I shall call them Dianthus, sounds a little better, but really there are some fab new varieties out there and when pulled open can look like a frilly sweet pea and such a wide range of colours too. I've signed up to an online notice board where I can load images from websites and see what other people like its fascinating and addictive!

 For one of my regular clients whose theme is white
and silver. Here I used grevillea and coral fern sprayed silver with a green small eucalytpus berry

To conclude some of the last Christmassy pictures, next year I vow to do some full on floral wreaths. They are expensive and I am not sure of the market for them but I can only try as they are a joy to behold.

I love the richness of this combination - a lush garden rose with craspedia balls, eucalyptus red, scabious, dianthus and silver brunia - great texture here too!