A green bouquet
The Eryngium leapt over the central terrace wall into the lawn many moons ago. NAH's threat to 'mow the meadow'*, as he calls the wild and woolly lawn , prompted me to cut back the emerging flower heads to make his job a little easier. Instead of composting them as I usually do, I decided they would make an interesting green bouquet for the house. It looks like they last quite well in the vase, a week at least. Green allium seed heads made a long lasting bouquet in my Flowers for Mum project last year. It meant she had flowers (in the widest sense) in her room whilst I was on holiday. I'm definitely warming to the green bouquet concept. I rather like the effect of these architectural stems (and one of the new filters on my editing software), what do you think? Original photo for comparison * = of course if it was a real meadow, he could leave it until much later in the year 😉