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Spring flowers, who loves them? A huge show of hands go up in response, in our minds anyway. How many of us lose our breath over beautiful flowers? Or your heart rate raises dangerously high when looking at a bed of your favorite flowers? Who can get enough wonderful, glorious flowers? There are never enough flowers for us, are there?
I’m guilty of all the above.
Come spring I plant a truckload of old-fashioned English cottage flowers, foxglove, Delphiniums, hollyhocks, forget me nots, hardy geraniums. phlox, all to compliment my 50 + David Austin roses, not familiar? Think petal counts of up to a 100, old-time fragrance that’s non-existent in modern teas. One even had a perfume named after it, Evelyn was used as the basis of that lovely perfume.
They are bred with a mixture of old-time roses Although most of them rebloom after the first flush and continue to do so.
They fit in so well, wonderful soft romantic colors that mix so well in a cottage garden. . Then don’t even get me started on peonies, I can go on about them as much as I can roses. I take a massive amount of pictures as you may have noticed by my posts.
When I’m not planting them or smelling them or photographing them then I’m quilting them. As a quilt artist, flowers are a common theme in my work.
. Back to my post…Oh thing more, I’ll find a few photos of my garden a few years ago when it was had an especially good year, so I can brag on it.
After all this waxing poetic, What do you suppose the subject of one of my new quilts? surprize! Stylized spring flowers, a no brainier that.
So if you are a flower affectionatos, this is for you.
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Your threaded flowers are almost other-worldly, they carry so much of the essence of spiritual glory and rejoicing in them.
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That is such a nice thing to say, how very sweet of you, Thanks- Barb
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These are so gorgeous! One of the reasons I love floral quilts is that the deer eat most of the flowers at my house!
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The perfection of flowers is beyond capturing, I do stylized gardens, they a mere
reminder of the real beauty,but it makes me happy as I work at it.
Thanks girls, you are too kind.
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