early summer garden bouquets

I've been off adventuring with some great florists this spring and am finally getting back to business here in Jeff City. We've had some good rains lately and the garden is responding very well (over responding in some areas.) Here are 2 hand tied bouquets from the backyard. Top is a hand tied clutch bouquet of; dianthus (sweet william), coreopsis, cornflower, monarda (horsemint), vinca vine, lemon balm, spirea and a hosta leaf. Next is a small arm bouquet of; delphinium, monarda, dianthus, cornflower, scabiosa and campanula (bellflower.)

rites of spring

Nothing says spring like an all bulb flower bouquet. A lovely mix of: hyacinths, grape hyacinths, tulips and narcissus.

Blaine Evans and peonies

What a cutie! Her smile is the genuine article. If you're wondering why the bride is hiking up her skirt and the bridesmaids are looking down, it's to show off those jazzy kicks from last post.  

Central Missouri Bride 2

More from the Central Missouri Bride Magazine cover shoot. The model here is Jordan Cheatham.

Central Missouri Bride

A great shoot for Central Missouri Bride magazine. We had 2 great models. This post features model Kahlia Kanas. Editor Stephanie Garrison Strobel. Hair by Catherine Crum. Shot at Travis Duncan Photography (photographer, lighting and background genius, the man etc.) The flowers; peonies, viburnum and astilbe, a trendy and romantic bouquet. The next post will feature model Jordan Cheatham.

Sweet May

This post got lost when blogger was doing some repairs. So in case you didn't get to see it here it is again. A last minute courthouse wedding bouquet with spray roses, viburnum, sweet peas and lisianthus.

under the hood

Here is a lovely "scepter" style bouquet of hydrangea, tulips and ranunculus. The handle of this bouquet is about 1&1/2' long, hence the scepter moniker. If you look below you can see that some of the stems are quite short, so to create the illusion I've used headless stems of flowers to give it length. These are going to be some great bouquets and I will post the finished product tomorrow or Sunday.

  

Bouquet of lavender roses, white tulips, magenta stock and limonium for bridal show tomorrow. I generally  like to show something from the upcoming season, hence the tulips. As you can probably tell this "cool water" rose is one of my faves -  a trendy color and being a 40cm. rose I can make a more affordable bouquet.