Flowering Vegetable Bouquet:

1  Carrot: Delightful lace umbels for months.
Season July-November

2 Garlic chives: Strong sturdy stems and flowers that will last for ten days.
Season July-October

3 Orach: Very useful in bouquets.
Season September-October

4 Chinese broccoli (Kai-lan): Fastest growing broccoli with white flowers and lots of side shoots.
Season Spring-autumn from several sowings

5 Red basil: Dark wine colour and a perfect scent.
Season August-October

6 Leek: Very useful, long-lasting flowers.
Season August-September

Combinations created by: Peter Bauwens, Gardens Illustrated 

Daily Bouquet. 

‘Bouquet of Flowers’ (1884), Ivan Kramskoy. Still Life, Realism

Play me a melody, “Play it, Sam.” 

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Still Life with Roses and Anemone, Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840).

The Flower Picker, by François-Alfred Delobbe

Simple. Simply beautiful.

My blue heaven. 

Reap what you sow. 

Sunday brunch.

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Above: ‘Chyrsanthemums.’ 

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was one of the great designers of the Arts & Crafts Movement. He gave us the Dahlia, the Chrysanthemum, and of course, the Mackintosh Rose. These images first appeared on appeared on paper, but were soon to appear in textiles, stained glass, fabrics, and tiles.

Watercolor, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Mymosa, 1924, France.

“Art is the flower, life is the green leaf. You must offer…flowers that grow from but above the green leaf…the flowers of the art that is in you.”

Spurge 1909.

Below, ‘Bouquet’ from 1915, watercolor.