FYI, these orange guys with the spiky leaves smell exactly (and room-fillingly) like weed (not the good stuff, apparently) and may not be what your estate agent had in mind when he said to get some flowers in before viewers came to see your house.
(ain't they gorgeous though? We pilfered them from a photoshoot we did at the weekend. They're by Sophie, obviously.)
Ha! They do look gorgeous, though.
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ReplyDeleteThey do look beautiful and I love the ranunculus (I think) in the bouquet too.
ReplyDeleteHaha, we had them in our flat prior to the shoot and we're still airing out the room! They are so gorgeous though and totally worth the stinkiness!
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Very lovely to look at and a near relation to the common or garden stinking hellebore. In addition box smells like cat wee and Hawthorne like something decomposing (could be why it's considered bad luck to have indoors) imagine all that in an arrangement....
ReplyDeleteHa ha, love the little dose of reality! ;) They look really fantastic though... (also the scoring out of 'bears' in your header made me smile too!)
ReplyDeleteHa that's amazing! They are beautiful though.
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ReplyDeleteI don't even know what these are called (bas wannabe florist). I just think of them as the Van Gogh flowers because he painted them a few times. Weird reference, I know.
How crazily beautiful are these photos? I want to live in them.
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ReplyDeleteWhat pretty flowers love the colours together. The orange very smelly ones are called Fritillaria these being Fritillaria imperialis. They are quite a large group of flowers including Snakehead ones which use to grow wild on water meadow's but I have never seen them wild. I do grow them as they are one of my husband's favourite flowers but he calls them Salamis as the pattern on the purple ones (you can get them in white) look just like pieces of salami well they do to him! When I was a child we had lots of the orange ones and my Mum always told me they were Easter Lily's as when you shook them they cried ( I presume it was water or the nectar falling from them) so the symbolise the tears that Jesus cried on the cross. We never picked them for the house though as they smelt to horrible!!!
ReplyDeleteYes they cried on me while I was making the arrangements! I think due to their shape the water must condense on the flower heads. They were beautiful, but so stinky!
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ReplyDeleteoooh looking at that arrangement makes me think about carnations in a whole new (good) way.
ReplyDeleteSo, Fritilaria eh? Getting my spring flowers mixed up again... Good thing I do dresses and not floristry ;) Well, they look absolutely beautiful don't they? Although to be fair, a certain photographer lady can make me see beauty in places I'd never even think to look.
ReplyDeleteMore inspiration for my 'landscape paintings'. Thank-you.
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Ha. I do love you.
ReplyDeleteI'm no expert when it coms to flowers but I have to say you have captured their colour and texture so well in these photos! Has made me think I need soem flowers and colour in the office to liven up things a little! So used to the gorgeous colours and textures in fabrics and accessories and often forget what nature offers us!
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