This is just a pretty post with pretty flowers that I grew in the warm weather and sunshine of my garden last year. Take that February, you wretched, wretched month.
Near the end of last summer, when the flowers were blooming faster than a teenage girl at a Bon Jovi concert (how’s that for an incredibly modern reference?) I decided to start taking photos of all the arrangements.
This summer, when I’m smarter and more organized, as future me ALWAYS is, I’ll try to start this project a bit earlier in the season so it isn’t ALL dahlia arrangements.
I welcome you to February with these 18 arrangements that’ll help us stick it to the month of waxy chocolates and scratchy lace underwear.
There isn’t a single red rose in the bunch.
Mixed flowers in silver jug
Cosmos ~ Apricot Lemonade
Celosia – Wheat celosia (formerly flamingo feather)
Sunflowers ~ gifted unknown variety
Dahlias ~ Alfred C, Hamilton Lillian, Sweet Nathalie, Cornel Bronze, Black Satin, Rock Star
Dahlias & Cosmos in white vase
Cosmos ~ Apricot Lemonade
Dahlias ~ Alfred C, Rockstar, Cornel Bronze, Hamilton Lillian, A La Mode
Mixed Flowers in tomato jar
Celosia ~ Crested Cockscomb, Wheat celosia (flamingo feather)
Amaranth ~ Hot Biscuits
Dahlia ~ Wanda’s Aurora, Cornel Bronze, AC Paint, Alpen Cherub
Cosmos ~ Apricot Lemonade
Dahlias & Amaranth in copper vase
Amaranth ~ Hot Biscuits
Dahlias – Alfred C, Cafe Au Lait, Cornel Bronze, Wanda’s Aurora
Mixed Bunch in dahlia vase
Snapdragon ~ Doubleshot Orange
Dahlia ~ Rockstar, Cornel Bronze, Yvonne, A La Mode, Unknown (pink)
Sweet Peas – White perennial
Floating Dahlias in silver serving bowl
A La Mode (x2), Hamilton Lillian, Jess-Lynn
Mixed Arrangement in Oh Flora Cove Vase
Dahlias ~ A La Mode, Yvonne, Cornel Bronze, Dollarama Black, Black Satin, Rockstar
Sunflower – Unknown gifted variety (Liked them so much I saved the seed for this year)
Cosmos ~ Apricot Lemonade
Celosia – Wheat celosia (formerly flamingo feather)
Mixed Bunch in tall white vase
Dahlias ~ Alfred C, Rockstar, A La Mode, Cornel Bronze, AC Paint, Wanda’s Aurora
Cosmos ~ Apricot Lemonade
Amaranth ~ Hot Biscuits
Celosia – Wheat Celosia
Cosmos & Dahlia in small vase
Cosmos ~ Apricot Lemonade
Dahlia ~ Alpen Cherub
Mixed Arrangement ribbed vase
Dahlias ~ Alfred C, A La Mode, Alpen Cherub, Cornel Bronze
Sunflowers ~ Unknown variety
Amaranth ~ Hot Biscuits, Opopeo
Tomatoes ~ Candyland, Unknown yellow variety
Queen Anne’s Lace
Carrot greens
Mixed Arrangement in oval white vase
Dahlia ~ AC Paint
Cosmos – Apricot Lemonade
Celosia – Wheat celosia (pink, red, yellow)
Dahlia Arrangement in glass vase
Dahlias ~ Rock Star, Black Satin, A La Mode, AC Paint, Alpen Cherub
Hydrangeas, snapdragons, apples, sweet peas
Peonies & Sage in black vase
Peony ~ Purple (unkown variety), Pale pink (Shirley Temple)
Greenery ~ Sage flowers, apple branches, sweet pea greenery
Dahlias in glass jar
All the dahlias in this vase are the same variety from the same plant – AC Paint They’re quite the magical dahlia.
Dahlias & Cosmos in glass vase
Dahlias ~ AC Paint, Wanda’s Aurora, A La Mode, Rock Star
Cosmos ~ Apricot Lemonade
Mixed Bouquet in glass vase
Dahlias ~ AC Paint, Alfred C, Alpen Cherub, Rockstar, Dollarama Black
Cosmos ~ Apricot Lemonade
Sunflower ~ Unknown variety
Celosia ~ Wheat celosia
Amaranth ~ Hot Biscuits
Mixed Arrangement in Ironstone jug
Dahlias ~ Colleen Mooney, Yvonne, Rock Star
Snapdragon ~ Doubleshot Orange
Celosia – Crested Cockscomb, Wheat celosia
I’ll be planting many of the same, plus this year I’ll remember (because again, future self is SO much better at stuff than present or past self) to plant more greenery.
All I had were flowers but to make nice flower arrangements you need as much greenery as you have blooms.
You can learn more about the varieties of dahlias and the other flowers in these posts.
I had pretty good luck with everything, other than the Henriette dahlia which turned out to be not a Henriette dahlia but something else entirely. Which is why labelling your dahlias when you dig them up right away is important.
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Source: theartofdoingstuff.com
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