Lavender

 The 2014 Pantone color of the year is "Radiant Orchid" (a slightly pink lavender,) and is a welcome addition to the blush bridal floral trend. Since blue is such a rarity in the floral kingdom, lavender brings a nice "cool down" to our color palette.
 Top - A hand tied bouquet of cool water roses, pink ranunculus, silver brunia and dusty miller.
Middle - An elevated centerpiece of hydrangeas, cool water roses, lavender carnations, phalaenopsis orchids (a great example of the Pantone color I mentioned,) dusty miller and bling.
Bottom - A different take on the centerpiece trio with lavender roses, gems and mokara orchids on green wire to give some movement to the design. A hip look for not a lot of money.

roses and lilies

An anniversary/birthday arrangement for Grandma Brown. Phlox, crepe myrtle, monarda, queen anne's lace roses and lilies.

keeping up appearances

A bouquet of purple lisianthus, lavender roses and lavender hyacinth. A calm, cool and fragrant combination of purple tones that ends up reading blue. While making this I kept doing impressions of Hyacinth Bucket (bottom photo) from the BBC sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances" about a status obsessed woman who insists her surname is pronounced "Bouquet," or you can think this is a picture of me dressed up for high tea.

lavender, magenta and purple

Bouquet of lavender roses magenta stock and purple limonium.