WwW: Gathering of the Greens

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Gathering of the Greens

The Super Green movement which has been fostered by the millennia’s need for basic, natural and an organic lifestyle has impelled the popularity of the Eco-Green Bouquet. This bouquet is a tribute to Mother Nature with an earthy and simple yet elegant decor that creates a claiming effect by using a variety of foliage’s in a stand along arrangement.

The “gathering of greens”  for an Eco-Green Bouquet has texture and a contrast of color that include natural shades such as: apple, aquamarine, beryl, chartreuse, emerald, fir, forest, grass green, jade, kelly green, lawn green, leafy green, lime, mint, moss, olive, olive drab, pea green, pine, sage, sap, sea green, sea foam, spring green, viridian.

Some of my favorite gathering greens to use are:

Sweet Huck





Lily Grass

Fatsia japonica

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet Huck or Vaccinium Deciduous Huckleberry (top left) is light and airy deciduous shrub found on the West Coast. Sweet Huck has a vibrant green color and flexible willowy branches which maintain their green color when dried.

Lily grass, formally known as Liriope, (middle picture) produces grass-like leaves that grow to be about two feet long. They are soft, narrow leaves that compliment almost any type of flower arrangement, outdoor landscaping or can be very showy in a gather-in the greens bouquet.

Fatsia japonica, known as Fat-J, (bottom right) native to Southern Japan, has leaves with 7-9 broad lobes, edged with a coarse, blunt teeth appearance.

A gathering of the greens vase has a great shell life and is a perfect way to bring the outdoors indoors.

Did you know, at the Flower Nook, we have a cooler just for greens which you are welcome to go inside and hand pick your own foliage (or flowers) to have wrapped or vase for you.

Can’t come into the store; take a look inside our floral cooler. We have suggestions for you including a Gathering of the Greens Bouquet!

For a peek at what is currently in our cooler, click below!

http://flowernook.greenboxfloral.com/

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