Hey, there! Are you enjoying wonderful weather like we are here in Massachusetts? I spent last weekend at the beach on Cape Cod and you would have thought it was still August. It was great! I hope you all had a good weekend, as well!
Now it is back to real life and new inspiration. I was walking around my garden the other day and I discovered this pod-shaped flower attached to one of the wildflowers hanging around my garden. It used to have a little white flower on the stem but, now it has turned into this pod. I saw it and thought that it would look great in a boutonniere...a foraged one, at that!
From that point on I was determined to discover other foraged finds in my yard and garden.
Here are some of the beauties I found:
Gaillardia↑
Dusty Miller ↑
Wild Fern↑
Unfortunately, I do not know the names of most of these plants but that is some of the charm of foraging.
Since I was making a lonely boutonniere, I could fit everything I found in a little cup.
This is how the boutonniere came out ↓
It is always fun for me to experiment and this time of year I seem to really love what happens to be available to me in nature. I find myself intrigued by the various grasses and such that are out there.
I forgot to mention that I did steal a very small hydrangea blossom off of one of my late blooming hydrangea shrubs. It is still foraged, just not in the woods :).
I kind of love the ribbon I found, also.
In the next two photos you can see the foraged materials more closely. I really like the fern that had turned almost white in one part of the yard. I don't know if it changed to that color because of the drought we are experiencing or if it does that every year. I never noticed it before.
I wish I had had more time to make another boutonniere or two. I liked this one that much!
I hope you are inspired to do some foraging of your own. If you find enough material, you can easily make a beautiful bouquet with what you find.
Happy Exploring!!!
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