Flora Focus || Dogwood

Flowering dogwoods are some of the prettiest in the spring. The whole tree is filled with large pink, red or white blooms. It is quite the site!

Flowering dogwood
Botanical Name: Cornus florida
Flower: The real flower on a dogwood is actually very small. They are the little yellow clusters in the middle of the 4 showy bracts. The bracts are the pink parts on this tree, that resemble petals. The bracts can also be white or red. They emerge on the tip of the branch before the leaves.
Leaf: The leaves or ovate (oval shaped) that come to a point at the end. They can be 3-6 inches in length.
Meaning: Love undiminished by adversity

A little bouquet for Mom

I made this little posy for my mom on mothers day. I just went around the yard and picked these flowers. I wanted something bright to cheer up the kitchen table and catch her eye when she got home. She really liked it, so everything was good!

The recipe is:

2 stems snapdragon
5 stems anemones
4 stems scabiosa
3 ranunculus
4 vinca vines

My Most Favorite Dress

I do believe this is my new favorite dress. For some reason I am attracted to ALL the white and cream dresses lately. I don't know why, Im just loving them right now! But then add some floral print to it and I'm all over it. I think this is more of "fancier" dress, one that you can easily wear to a wedding or nice brunch but I have been trying to dress down my nice dresses lately. I don't want to wear them just for special occasions. You know? So this is my attempt to dress it down. Add a bit of country flare to it :)

Details

Dress || Modcloth

Top || Kohls

Shoes || Target

Necklace || Forever 21

Osborne Farm Semi Truck

The Osborne Farm semi truck. I would have loved to have seen this truck in its glory days with my grandpa, "Bud" (can you see his name written on the door?) driving horses to and from the race track. But as you can see this truck has been in this exact location for a very, very long time. There is a tree growing through the middle of it! Thats kind of incredible. I would love to have this truck, tree and all, if I ever get a big piece of land. I just completely love it!

Outfit Details

Top || Kohls

Skirt & Necklace || Forever 21

Shoes || Target

Flora Focus || Lilac

Lilacs are probably the best smelling flower that bloom in the spring. If you bring a small bouquet of them into your house, you will soon be smelling the sweet, fresh scent in every room, they are that fragrant. And I love it. You can see them in the wildflower, roadside bouquet I made last week. They are quite the statement flower!

Lilac
Botanical Name: Syringa spp.
Flower: Blooms in spring and can be white, purple or pink. Large clusters of small tubular flowers. Clusters can get up to 8 inched long. Very fragrant.
Leaf: Leaves are oval to heart shaped with a smooth margin, 5 inches long.
Meaning: First emotions of love

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Backyard Spring Bouquet

Hello! I hope everyones weeks are going good so far. Yesterday I spent some time in the yard picking flowers and decided to make a little tiny arrangement out of them. I have been loving experimenting with different flowers and figuring out what I think goes together and different color combinations. What you see in this little posy are really the only flowers blooming in the yard right now.

If you wanted to create this yourself, the recipe is..

3 stems anemone

3 stems ranunculus 

4 stems scabiosa

1 branch of a dogwood

1 stem snapdragon (its hiding in the back)

And I don't know the name if that little pink flower with the variegated leaf in the bottom right…

Have you created any arrangements or bouquets lately? If you have link them below, I would love to see!

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April in Review

So yeah, 1 photo a day is hard. I really didn't think it would be that difficult, but it is. I just must be to lazy to whip out my phone and take a picture of those mundane activities. So instead here are the few photos I posted to Instagram in April. I also just realized that all of the pictures have to do with flowers. Floral obsessed maybe? Yes.

Favorite posts from last month…

Whats the Big Deal?

Flora Focus || Anemone & Ranunculus 

The Rome Dress

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival 

Roadside Bouquet

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