'One Bowl'
A farm grown flower arrangement for each month of the year.
In January 2024 I took one bowl and designed a arrangement using only flowers and foliage’s from from Jordan’s Farm.
I enjoyed it.
Lets follow this through I thought, and explore different designs in the same bowl using using the flowers available at the farm that month.
A year later and I have 12 bowls of blooms or foliage’s or even fruits. Each one is different and demonstrates what is available in each magical month of the British floral season.
Who says we don’t have beauty all year round?
January: Perhaps the hardest month I used furry Pampas Grass plumes and pink Pussy Willow. A few twigs of pink blossom and some variegated evergreen foliage’s. The dried Amaranth added a different dimension to finish it off.
February: The Crocus are flowering! A delicate plant for flower arranging but they, together with greeny Hellebores sat beautifully in the acid green of our native Hellebore. I then added some Hazel catkins for their beautiful twigs and pendulous blossoms and I loved this fresh arrangement announcing the coming of spring.
March: I now grow a large variety of Daffodils, these beautiful harbingers of spring. Teamed with twiggy Forsythia and they formed themselves into a beautiful light and airy arrangement
April: The month of white and blue. Fresh, yet still cold, these lovely flowers, the purple Lilac, the White Pheasent Eye Narcissi, the Blue Bells and the early Hawthorn blossom are the promise of some much more to come and the greens just leap out at you they are so fresh!
May: A native meadow arrangement this month. The fields are just a joy so why not enjoy the beauty of our delicate wildflowers? Oxeye Daisy, Buttercup, Pink Campion and Cow Parsley make this a light, airy and delicate celebration of early summer!
June: For June I had to use my roses, creamy yellows and pinks studded by cornflowers. Ice cream in a bowl!
July: I wanted to use some silvers and deep purples and so I did. I loved the Artemisa’s fine foliage and the deep purple grasses. I set it off with some Cosmos and zingy lime Zinnias. It’s fun to be different!
August: I had to go bright this month and in mainly daisy forms. Hot pinks and oranges in the form of Marigolds, Dahlias, Cosmos & Zinnias. Just fun.
September: The joyful blooms of Dahlias, the last of the Sunflowers, together with Sage, Crocosmia seedheads (which I love), Asters, and Sedum.
October: The gourds were the stars! Their smooth texture compliments beautifully textural yellow dahlia and Amaranthus. A few rose hips for a pop of more colour!
November: I was delighted to find I had beautiful white Nerines braving the late Autumn. For this arrangement I used a ‘frog’ in the bowl and curly rushes to complement the straight stems. ‘Simples’ but I liked it and it lasted a long time.
December: Our dining room is blue (ish) we have some lovely glaucus Pine and Eucalyptus so this month in the midst of excess elsewhere I played it down and added seeded ivy and blue candles. It adorned on our sideboard and we lit the candles on Christmas day
I think that demonstrates the variety across one year available from one flower farm! And every arrangement uses ‘0’ floral foam and utilised the same wire mesh in the bowl to hold the stems in place!
