Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Fall ...at last!
I seriously love fall. I didn't think I loved it as much as I do but oh the flowers! The colours are so incredible at this time of year, you just want to squish your face into all those beautiful hues. The golden rusty coloured disbud mums with the glowing copper echinacea centres....the burgundy smoke tree and amaranthus hanging so dignified! Oh and of course the peachy/fushia colour which is so hard to describe. I did a beautiful wedding a few years ago where the bride who owns an amazing tea shop called Bayswater Tea Company ( http://www.bayswatertea.com/ ) asked for her flowers to be eminent of these three words: cozy, fall, yummy. I used pale yellow creamy champagne buttery coloured roses with golds and coppers and fall leaves I picked from the trees around Vancouver, with chocolate brown and hits of greeny/burgundy hydrangeas that when they start to dry turn sort of a verdigris colour....ahh heaven.
If you love nature, flowers and poetry, read my favourite poet ever: Mary Oliver. Her poems describe how we feel about flowers, colours, nature. Total bliss!
So bring on the hot chocolate, the scarves, hazlenut latte's, chunky sweaters, brown boots and gourds! And feel free to bring us golden sparkling champagne or crisp white wine into the store at any time, we will add some extra oomph to your bouquets, always in exchange for wine or chocolate ;) (learned that one from Cheryl)
Blackberry Wine anyone? (a great book by the author of Chocolat)
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