Flower bunching

This week, I listed "flower bouquets" on Athens Locally Grown, and I got orders for two.  So great!  When I worked on Waterpenny Farm, Rachel Bynum, one of the farm's owners, taught me to bunch flowers for the Washington DC and Charlottesville farmers markets.  I really enjoyed it.  Learned the rule of 3s with flowers, etc...apparently three of each flower is more pleasing to see in a bunch.  And for over a year, I've been following the blog of a flower shop in New York City -- Saipua -- that couldn't be prettier.  Sarah, the owner of Saipua and writer of its blog, could not be spunkier or more hilarious.  I love LOVE reading her writing, and the flower bouquets she makes are impossibly beautiful.  There really are no words.  So romantic and whimsical and ethereal.  Dunno how she does that with flowers.  So, when I got these orders for these two bouquets, I couldn't wait to make them.  Of course, they don't look like Saipua's.  But they do look like mine :)

Apparently one can be a flower farmer.  I've already ordered a book on Amazon about it, because as soon as I have an idea, of course I have to research it.

I didn't take a picture of the finished bouquets until David and I were in the car on the way to deliver them to Athens Locally Grown, and then I only had David's IPhone.  But here are the flowers picked into buckets.  Can you believe that blue hydrangea?  Or those orange mexican sunflowers? 

I feel like that top picture looks like that scene in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy opens that door and the whole outside world's in color.  Except it's at my house, which is neat.