Each month I share favorite flower pictures I’ve captured in the garden during the previous weeks. Light on words, Rewind is the perfect place to enjoy still photography, an increasingly rare medium on social media.
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November 15th - These yellow craspedia flowers, soft like felted mittens, provide a welcome interlude of color as the scene outside shifts into monochromatic tones full of grey and white hues.
Sphagnum moss + bittersweet + hydrangea + birch + pothos.
Coleus slips rooting in water (and masquerading as a flower bouquet.)
Welcoming the winter season with handmade wreaths of arborvitae, false cypress, and blue spruce.
Holiday bouquets perfect for the fireplace mantle. (Inspired by Hanne Utoft).
Bittersweet on a bright, wintery day.
Prepping materials for a dried flower wreath.
The final product.
The first blossom on the Thanksgiving cactus.
Using scraps from left over wreath projects, I built this tiny wreath using evergreens, dried oregano flowers, and dried Japanese ribbon plant.
Converting a cast-off container into a festive vintage holiday vase.
Thank you, red grapefruit; I adorn the house with your translucent pink centers reminiscent of stained glass windows.
Every December I remember how much poinsettias glow when they catch the afternoon light.
Dried strawflower + gomphrena + statice
Dried flowers on December 15th
Thanks for reading Rewind. See you at the end of the month for more writing and garden photography.
-Betsy
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