Hello everyone,
Look at the beauty I found yesterday morning on the market: a PonPon Morgana Ranunculus Success XXL!
I love the very big flower from the Ranunculus Success XXL, the mix of pink, white and green of the PonPon Morgana is just so elegant that it's a good idea to present one single flower in a stem vase to let its beauty shine through.
Don't forget to keep it simple and buy some flowers!
Elodie
Good morning everyone,
I hope you had a nice week end! I have been writing my New Year's Cards today. In France, you usually don't write cards before Christmas but in January, and you can write them until the end of the month. So I thought it's not too late to look back at 2013 and show you some of my favourite flowers from last year.
Speak to you soon
Elodie
1. MOODY BACKGROUNDS:
I love flowers on the dark background and would like to do more of that kind of pictures in 2014. You can see more photos here and here.
2. BLUE HUES:
apart from moody backgrounds, I seam to have liked blues and greens a lot this year.
You can see more photos in those blogposts - from top to bottom and from left to right.
table decoration for the Metropolitain//Favourite Flower//#2flowergirls //
cactus farm//blue variation//sweet peas//
#2flowergirls - Hortensia edition//dry petals//vase story
3. LOVELY FLOWER SHOPS:
Those pictures belong to the series I made for my floral guide for sisterMAG. My second contribution for my favourite e-mag was a great experience. You can read the complete feature here.
4. SHADES OF PINK AND RED:
another red thread through my blogpost last year was the use of reds and pinks.
from top to bottom and from left to right:
crepe de chine et macarons//in my neighbourhood//pink and red roses
//pink still life//#2flowergirls - garden roses edition//wild flowers from Spain//
#2flowergirls - peonies//dahlias for baby love//#2flowergirls mums edition
Hello everyone,
I hope you are having a good week so far. I was inspired by my blogpost from yesterday about the flower shop Saxifraga and its small bouquets. It's not the best season for flowers but you start finding anemones and ranunculus in the flower shops and I love them so much that I couldn't resist, so here is my first bouquet this year for you. And don't forget: Small is beautiful and you can do a lot with just a few flowers!
Have a great day!
Elodie
Hello everyone!Here is another flower shop I visited for my article in sisterMAG last year. This shop is all about mini-bouquets. If you read my blog, you know I like mini-bouquets. My lovely #2flowergirls Inga from glomerylane calls me the "mini-bouquet lover"!
Saxifraga in Hamburg, is one of my all time favourite flower shop. Forget everything you know about flower shops before you go there. The owner Carola Wineberger is a very creative lady and really manages to create atmospherical flower compositions. The shop is situated in the very creative district called Karolinenviertel or Karoviertel and surrounded by many small shops with a lot of handmade fashion and decoration items.
She makes some very small bouquets and displays them in recycled jars or shot glasses – they really look like the ones I loved making when I was a child - and still make now. No vase is small enough for these little beauties. She sells them for a couple of Euros. I find it so refreshing to find that kind of bouquet in a flower shop. So far away from all those pre-formated bouquets you find everywhere with gerberas and a lot of green.
Have a great day and speak to you soon! Elodie
SAXIFRAGA Website Glashüttenstraße 100 20357 Hamburg Mo-Fr. 10:00 - 18:00 Sat.: 10:00 – 16:00
Hello everyone,
I am so happy to be taking part for the first time in the #urbanjungle monthly series initiated by my dear friends Igor and Judith. This time Igor and Judith asked us to compose a green festive vignette.
I have decided to show you my dry heath plant. It is not exactly a Christmas decoration but I think that it looks pretty festive with my black house doctor star on my green cabinet in my living room. What do you think?
I have decided to show you a dry plant as it's about as green as I can be with plants. I love plants in gardens, but I don't like having any in my flat. I prefer fresh cut flowers, as you well know if you are a regular reader of my blog.
I find heath looks much prettier when dry. It makes branches bend in a very elegant way and you can keep the plant forever, without having to worry about watering it.
You can also check out UnDueTre Ilari, Fluxi on Tour, Peg London, Mouseblossom and Emerald Green Interiors for more festive decoration ideas!
You can also have a look at the beautiful Urban Jungle Bloggers Pinterest board.
I wish you a great Wednesday - Thank you Igor and Judith for this brilliant idea.
Elodie
Hello everyone,
I am back today with the 8th and last "lovely flower blog" this year. Don't worry, I will be back next with some more gorgeous blogs for you.
I have been waiting for the relaunch of their website, and I am so happy and excited to present you the gorgeous Grown & Gathered blog today!
1. Who are you and what are you talking about in your blog?
Hello all, I am Lentil and I, like many of you reading have a love of flowers. My partner and I have our own business grown and gathered, his love is the vegetables and mine the flowers.
I find it super difficult to talk about what exactly it is that we do – because I am one of those ideas people. I always seem to want to try something new ha. But in a nutshell, we grow and forage cut and edible flowers seasonally. I love the simplicity of flowers, I like how they grow and I like to represent them as they are.
We focus on local produce and sustainable as well as organic growing practices. As the business has grown, we have realized we are most passionate about sustainability, more than anything else. We only use post consumer green-waste and farm manures for our growing practices and are trying to create a closed loop system, where what we sell comes back, i.e. We give vegetables, fruits, herbs and edible flowers to restaurants, they give us back their biodegradable waste to add to our compost and we use that compost to grow the restaurants more vegetables, fruits, herbs and edible flowers! Brilliant!
2. Where does your passion for flowers come from?
Well, I grew up in the country and was one of those children who liked to run around, play in mud and pick flowers. Then as I grew older, for some reason, I felt as though I needed a “real job”, so I went to university, got a Speech Pathology Degree and got that “real job”. While I worked in my “real job” I dreamt about working with flowers and I remember in my spare work hours researching flowers secretly ha.
Speech Pathology is all about helping people in many ways, but what I realized while doing this is that I wanted to help people in a more simple way. I wanted to help people focus on the positives, the simple things and to stop and think about what they have, not what they don’t. For me the answer was flowers. I feel as though flowers have their own little language. Of course the fact that I hated working in offices helped to make the decision much easier.
3. What inspires you?
Many things.
My lovely Matt and how we live most of all. We try to live in a simple and sustainable way.
The next is probably our ideas, we always seem to have more ideas and things we want to try than hours in the day.
And People. Not reading about them, but meeting them and talking with them, any type of person really.
4. What is your favorite flower?
This is probably one of the hardest questions I have ever been asked, but I think I’ll have to choose a poppy (of any variety).
5. Which other flower blogs are you reading regularly?
To be honest I don’t really get around to reading other blogs often, we don’t have great internet in the country and life gets busy! But I would like to think I read Cecilia Fox and Pomp and Splendour blogs when I can haha!
So I hope you enjoyed this interview today even if it is not very christmasy!
I wish you a great day! Talk to you soon!
Elodie
Hello everyone,
It's not exactly summer here in Hamburg, and as I am writing this post we are in the middle of a big storm. That's why I want to share with a little treasure I found on the market on Tuesday: A bunch of mimosa to brighten up your day!
Elodie
Hello everyone,
today I would like to introduce you to Kimberly Watt and to her beautiful flower blog Petal Pixie. A very talented florist and stylist from the US, that I discovered on Instagram. Here goes to my little interview. I hope you will enjoy it.
Have a nice day!
Elodie
1. Who are you and what are you talking about in your blog?
I am Kimberly and I discuss floral and event design. Most of my blog showcases images of my wedding work and styled editorial shoots.
2. Where does your passion for flowers come from?
I grew up on a farm so I always have had a love for planting and watching things grow. My grandparents had a beautiful flower garden and I spent a lot of time there with them. I don’t think I realized at that time I would make it a career to work with flowers. Then in high school I took a floral design class as an elective. My teacher and my mother decided I had too much talent to not do something with it. So my mom researched floral design schools and enrolled me in The Floral Design Institute in Seattle. The rest is history so to speak.
3. What inspires you?
I am inspired by a lot of things, other designers, nature and traveling. I tend to be inspired by different cultures and environments; I think you can find a lot of inspiration from the way others live. I also love interior design and fashion. I think if I was to make a career change it would be in interior design.
4. What is your favourite flower?
I really don’t have a favourite flower. I love to use what is in season. I think if I had to choose it would be ranunculus, berries, hellebores, clematis, fruit, flowering branches, lilac, garden roses, and stock.
5. Which other flower blogs are you reading regularly?
Holly Chappel, Saipua, Ariella Chezar, Floret Flower Farm, and Flowerwild. I check their posts regularly. I also love reading Botanical Brouhaha and Flowerona.
Thank you so much Kimberly for sharing your passion and your talent with us!
xoxo
Elodie
© pictures by Ali Harper Photography, Alixann Loosle Photography, Blush Photography, Jessica White Photography
Hello everyone,
After a little break, I am back with a new interview from my Lovely flower blogs series. It is already the 6th one and I am very happy to welcome another of my compatriots on the blog today. The lovely Claire from the blog roses by claire. I am really in love with her delicate work and pastel colours. Her work makes me think of this beautiful song from Bjork: subtle and happy!
I am glad Claire agreed to answer a couple of questions about the origin of her passion for flowers and her inspiration. I hope you enjoy it!
Talk to you soon,
Elodie
1. Who are you and what do you talk about in your blog?
Hi, I’m Claire, a young French Florist based in Paris, France. I have worked as a freelance florist since May 2012. I created Roses By Claire, my personal work blog, while I studied at florist's school, to show my work and also because I really love taking photographs.
My blog talks about my work as a florist, shows my bouquets, floral crowns, inspiration and some DIY.
2. Where does your passion for flowers come from?
Probably from my beloved grandfather. When I was a child, I remember his amazing garden with so many different flowers, smells and colours; I was fascinated and I loved smelling and seeing all the flowers every morning. My step-mother has also been a florist for 18 years and I really loved watching her when she worked. I also helped her at the flower shop. Three years ago it was therefore obvious: I REALLY wanted & needed to be a florist.
3. What inspires you?
Everything. The most, I guess, is the feelings, the colours, textures and the forms, an emotion, fashion, my family, and music is a big part of my inspiration. I can't work without music, in fact.
4. What is your favourite flower?
Ahhh! You torture me! ahah Probably, the rose for all the different crazy perfumes, varieties & colours.
5. Which other flower blogs do you read regularly?
Well, I read
Jo Flowers Blog, she is an amazing artist and I really appreciate her work.
Un Beau Jour, I love this website so much, it's beautiful and a big inspiration for me.
Style Me Pretty, is also a big inspiration for me.
I follow my lovely colleague Poppy Figue !
You can also find roses by Claire here:
Blog
Facebook
Pinterest
Instagram
Thank you so much Claire for taking the time to answer my questions!
Pictures: © Roses by Claire, Studio Menesson & Marylin Mugot
Hello everyone,
Today I take you to a shop I really like in lovely Hamburg. This is a flower shop I photographed for the flower guide I wrote for the online magazine sisterMAG.
This shop is situated in the part of Hamburg called Sternschanze.
The shop is called after a building in the same street (Schulterblatt) named rote flora - a former theatre, squatted since 1989.
The flowers in the shop are very elegantly presented and the interior of the shop is spectacular, with a floor made out of loose stones and a little wooden path in the middle that makes you feel as if you were in a garden.
The walls inside are painted in a very nice shade of turquoise and they also sell a great selection of vases.
They also have a large variety of outdoor plants for balconies.
So I hope, this post made you curious, and I hope that you will pay Grüne Flora a visit if you live in Hamburg or if you are visiting soon.
Talk to you soon,
xo
Elodie
GRÜNE FLORA
Website
Schulterblatt 79
20357 Hamburg
Mo-Fr. 9:00 – 19:00
Sat.: 10:00 – 17:00