9 flowers to match the colour of the year

 
 

Greenery 15-343 colour of the year!
Each November Pantone Color Institute choose the colour which will influence fashion, design and weddings for the following year.

I love the motivation and definition that Pantone gave for this year’s choice: Greenery is a fresh and zesty yellow-green shade that evokes the first days of spring when nature’s greens revive, restore and renew. Illustrative of flourishing foliage and the lushness of the great outdoors, the fortifying attributes of Greenery signals consumers to take a deep breath, oxygenate and reinvigorate.

If you are going to get married this year, Greenery will be very easy to add to your moodboard. You could either choose just a green palette or add it to the other colours. In addition to the classical and timeless white and green combination, there are many other possibilities: take a look at this link.

Talking about flowers, there is quite a choice, here are some that have interesting shades of green:

  • Carnation “prado”, annual
  • Light green eustoma, best time spring &summer
  • Rose from Ecquador, annual
  • Light green hydrangea, spring&summer
  • Chrysanthemum “froggy”, annual
  • Snowball, May
  • St. John’s Wort green, annual
  • Alchemilla, annualAmni, spring&summer
  • Blue throatwort, annual
  • Dianthus tricky, annual

Finally green is perfect for any style you choose for your wedding: from modern to romantic, from elegant to natural.

Have a look at the moodboard I created to get some inspiration. Have you already decided about your wedding moodboard? Tell me about your choices.

 
 

May blossoming in my garden and terrace

 
 

May is an awesome month for my garden and terrace, every day there is surprise awaiting. I’ve been watching the peony bush for some days and just yesterday the first white flower blossomed. There is such a lot of life within it, ants are running up and down its branches and insect are nestling among the petals.

A poppy with its delicate red petal has just blossomed and I really don’t know where the seed came from.

The plants that we chose for the terrace are growing very well.

The green wall that we created is fully blossomed: in April the Osmanthus plants were a perfumed white cloud and now all the roses are opening up. There are different rose plants and each one has its own distinctive colour and perfume. The huses range from pale white to deep purple. The perfume from the white roses is very delicate whereas that of the deep purple ones is so rich and timeless. These roses remind me of the English garden ones which I really love.

The seeds that we planted in early March are growing beautifully. We planted some sweet peas, nigella and cornockles, but we have to wait patiently to see them bloom.

The herbs are coming on splendidly and the first strawberries were delicious.

Yellow, pink and red roses run along the garden fence. Like paint from an artist’s palette splashes of colour brighten every corner of the garden.

On Sunday afternoon I was sitting on the terrace in the shade reading an article about the use of the rose in the cosmetic industry. I discovered that the rose it the most studied flower by biologists and botanists. The only two roses that are used in this sector are the antique cabbage rose and the damask rose. The cabbage rose is cultivated in the South of France and Morocco in the valley of roses and I strongly recommend that you go there! The damask rose comes from Turkey and Bulgaria. Elisabeth de Feydau, professor of the Ecole of Perfumiers of Versailles, describes the scent of the cabbage rose : as herbaceous, poudrè and gourmand. The damask rose however has a fruitier scent with notes of litchi, raspberry, geranium and verbena.

Still on the same topic have a look at the video about the “Rose of Grainville” which was coultivated for the first time in Grainville in Normandy by the Dior. The villa and garden became a museum in 1997.

That’s all for now. I’ll be back next month to tell you how white lavender and seeds are coming along.