This Monday’s bouquet turned into an adventure.

I went outside with a simple plan: cut some Anemone sylvestris, which I’d seen blooming the other day. I was hoping the bergenia would be out as well — I did a really cute pink and white combo with them a few years ago.

The bergenia was not out.

However, I found a few lily of the valley blooming next to the anemone, which spurred me to go check the big colony by the garage. Those were definitely starting to bloom, much to my delight, so I grabbed a handful for the vase. Next to them was a new colony of red campion — my first time seeing them in this spot — so I grabbed a handful of those too.

On my way back, I remembered the blue myosotis haze in the flower field and added those to the pile.

Then, back on the terrace, I discovered that a particularly enthusiastic gust of wind had snapped my larger angelonia clean off at the base. No big deal — there’s enough left in the ground to grow back, and now I’ve got a bunch of stems to make cuttings from. But cuttings require removing the flower spikes, and flower spikes require… a vase.

So into the arrangement they went.

(Vase, I say. It’s actually a sugar container from a matching tea set, but it was the closest thing I had that scaled with these delicate flowers.)

So yes: I went from an intentional two-tone arrangement with simple shapes to this profusion. Sometimes the weather throws plants at you and you just have to say “well, if you insist…”

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