This beauty of a bridal bouquet was used in a lovely little photo shoot this week. I’m always inspired by the delicate beauty of agrostemma, that pretty little white bloom dancing above the flouncy white peonies. An added little bonus this week of a matching bud vase from the shoot. It’s such a pretty time of the year for flowers, don’t you think? What’s growing in your garden/yard/farm?
Feel free to add a link to your own Backyard Bouquets in the comments section below. If you are on Instagram, be sure to use the hashtag #backyardbouquets to join in the fun. I’d love to see what everyone is growing and creating!
The only “rule” is that all the elements in the arrangement must be sourced locally, within a 25 mile radius. Your own backyard is a great place to start!!
The ribbon is gorgeous!
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Thanks Jordyn! And thanks for adding a link to your beautiful bouquet!!
oh, jennie! that bouquet takes my breath away!
this week’s bouquet was a heartbreaker for me.
see why at: http://muddyfeetflowerfarm.blogspot.com/
xxoo
Oh my goodness, Kristin! That is a heartbreaker story!!! But so very touching that you can be helping make her life brighter! xoxoxo
Aren’t the blush tones yummy? This is one of 14 bouquets we did for Farmer’s Market.
Hi Jennie Love,
This is a gorgeous bouquet. I have a love and hate relationship with agrostemma, I love it for its whimsical nature but I hate harvesting it as it is so time consuming. Do you harvest the whole plant at a time with most of the spray open? If you do that do you deadhead the initial blooms that are too far gone by the time the whole spray is ready? Or do harvest each individual flower? Thanks so much, we are in our first year of farming and learning how to maximize our time in harvesting.
Megan Leiss
Spring Forth Farm, Hurdle MIlls, NC
We harvest single stems at a time, but longer stems so they usually include an open flower and several buds that will open in the vase/bucket. This way the plants keep blooming prolifically for a couple weeks. We are harvesting for ourselves for our own wedding work so it is worth the extra care and time in harvesting. If we were harvesting for market, We would be chopping the whole plant at once with a few blooms open and lots of “lipstick” buds that would open in the vase.
It is a tricky balance with crops like agrostemma between labor and quality. Consider your end-buyer always for every crop and what price you can get for the crop. ‘
Hope that helps!
We do weddings, but we don’t often get to do arrangements for other non-wedding events. We were asked to do an arrangement for part of an art display celebrating Mother Mary and the divine feminine. All flowers are from our farm (backyard), or the backyard of places we used to live (we sometimes go and cut woody greenery from there): http://springforthfarmnc.com/2014/06/19/flowers-for-mother-mary/.