A crown for the goddess Astrantia.
With her attending angel.
I have been following Floral Forager on Instagram, she also has a website.
So inspiring! She makes wonderful headdresses and this is where the idea took me.
I sought out the frame after seeing these wonderful creations at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2016. I can’t remember exactly where I got the frame from now, I think it was from an Etsy site – it might have been this one: Geckomeister.
The angel etched in a glass block – how do they do that??? comes from St David’s Cathedral shop. I bought one for each of my grandchildren as a christening present.
I’m joining Cathy for her IAVOM meme, where we pop something in a vase (ahem) from our gardens and share our arrangements with other gardeneners all over the world.
You can see my more conventional arrangement using Astrantia here.
Yesterday I had the utter joy of going to the Rare Plant Fair at Sculpture by the Lakes
I bought 3 plants
An alstroemeria, a trailing snapdragon which sounds almost too good to be true and some quaking grass.
My daughter chose alstroemerias as the main flower to decorate the marquee for her wedding reception so they have a special place in my heart – I hope I can grow them – any tips?
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A great idea for astrantias.
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Thank you Chloris – they are like littel star bursts aren’t they.
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Astrantias as a crown, I love it. I am also pursuing Alstroemerias, pursuing being the operative word. Sulking is more like it. Them, not me. I am so unfamiliar with the Astrantia this is quite exotic and creative.
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Sulky Alstroemeria – the other ugly sister!
So glad you liked the crown – it was fun to make.
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I am not sure the ugly sister will grow here, a friend gave me a start from Alstroemeria my mother gave her. It is languishing thus far.
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Oh dear! I wonder what it does not like.
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The heat and sugar sand, my guess. Clay soil and 30 is different from the sand and 40. But. We will see.
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Yes, they probably don’t like sand much – the guy I bought it from said they need a lot of nice sticky compost in the hole before planting.
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Amazing and too wonderful for words! Again, please, and soonish rather than later? 😘
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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That is astonishing Sandra – am amazing creation! Do you surprise yourself with your creativity sometimes?! 😉
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Constantly Cathy!
Thank you for you lovely comment. 🙂
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Brilliant! I’d be happy to see such creations on a regular basis from you. ❤ And a hat for Cathy!! 🙂
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Wow! there’s a thought. If I could think of a suitable outlet for such headdresses they would be fun to make. I need a product manager! 😉
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I adore Astrantia (another of the plants that doesn’t want to grow here). You did a wonderful job turning it into a crown. How I wouldn’t love to tour that sculpture garden. I grow various Alstroemeria, including ‘Indian Summer’, which has already become a favorite. Of course, my climate is very different than yours so I can’t speak to what kind of winter protection it needs. It’s a very reliable plant, although some varieties duck underground to wait out the worst of summer’s heat here. I can’t say whether that’s true of ‘Indian Summer’ as this will be its first summer in my garden. The only maintenance mine require is pulling the spent flower stems up from the base – the stems shouldn’t be cut but rather yanked. Good luck with it – it’s a beauty!
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Thank you for your tips and your encouragement Kris, I have been prowling round the garden today looking for a suitable spot for Indian Summer to reside. Fun knowing that you have the same variety.
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I love the crown. It looks futuristic somehow, like something you’d see on an alien in the original Star Trek.
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Cool! I love that image. 🙂
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Great flower choices, a trailing snap dragon I’ve never seen, so this will be interesting. I love the color you chose for the alstroemerias, hope those go well!
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It took a while for me decide on the Alstroemerias as there was a very pretty pink one, but these are closer to the colour of the ones we had for my daughter’s wedding and I do have masses of pink in my garden – I thought it might be good to break that up a bit.
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Love it, everyone should wear a flower crown.
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Yes! Especially on their birthday. ❤
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All hail the queen of summer!
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‘Astrantia, Queen of Summer’, yes it does have a ring to it!
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Whereas Asarina sounds like the wicked step-sister.
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Sure does!
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What a cool idea. That crown armature has endless possibilities.
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Yes indeed! So many ideas careering through my mind. I need a specific event to crystaliise them I think.
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Such an exciting end to June and beginning of July. Beautiful flower crown and those sculptures are WOWs.
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Thank you Lisa, I’m glad you enjoyed them.
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Loving those Astrantia in the head! So you. Looks a great plant sale
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Wonderful weather, beautiful setting, meeting up with friends, lots of people sharing their passion for plants – it really was one of those special days.
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Fab
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Utterly gorgeously fabulous! Your creativity knows no bounds, except, like me, you have no idea how they get the angel suspended in that block. Mine is looking at me now from across the room. Same place of purchase too!
Have a wonderful July!
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Oh, it thrills me to know we both have the St.David’s angels! What a lovely link, I imagine them communicating with one another ……
I wish I knew how to ‘ground’ my creativity into something more solid. Ideas abound but what to do, where to go with it …… I feel like I need a swarm of elves making all the stuff that swirls around in my head!
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I find myself so swimming with ideas I have difficulty in settling in to anything, because as soon as I do, more ideas rush in on the tidal waves of creativity!
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Sounds very familiar!
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A most unusual crown! You do have some interesting flower arrangements. It looks like a lovely day out. I like the sound of the trailing snapdragon and the fact it likes shade.
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The IAVOM meme encourages me to experiment with flower arrangements and in the garden.
I do hope the Asarina does what it says it does and I can strike cuttings to put it all over the place.
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I love this arrangement a lot, so elegant, and so beautifully staged. The plant fair looks wonderful, and the new plants are going to be fabulous.
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Aw thank you Cathy – it was not easy finding a way of getting the white and the wire in a photo and I wasn’t sure I’d managed it well enough, so your comment is particularly welcome.
The plant fair was a real treat.
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What a shame Cathy’s son’s wedding has already taken place – I’m sure your arrangement would have made a wonderful hat for her 🤣
I’ll be interested to see how the trailing snapdragon does. We grew Alstroemeria in Sussex but haven’t grown it here. They had some huge pots of it in our LIdl the other day for 6.99 euros but, whenever I succumb and buy plants, Mr. T. moans because plonking a plant in the ground isn’t an option for him – it is a grand production – and then he has to find the time. If I do it, it’d be wrong.
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I never thought ….. I should have offered my crown making abilities to Cathy for the wedding shouldn’t I! LOL! ROTFL! Can you imagine ….
Well if ever you need a hat Lynn – you know where to come.
Gosh sounds like garden wars out there – mind you I have killed a lot of plants by not giving enough thought to the planting, so I have some empathy with Mr. T.
Could you have some pots for your own horticultural experiments?
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I’m doing my own experiments with hostas at the moment. I don’t think my children were as well coddled and fussed over as these four pots. Of course, he is convinced the snails will still get them despite my ministrations but even though we had some rain in the night after some scorchio temperatures in the high 30s, so far so good.
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Brilliant! I’m rooting for you!
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As it happens there is another wedding coming up very shortly…..
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Just say the word! 🙂 🙂
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