STEM GINGER

After a lot of hard work on the garden in spring, July is a month for taking a bit of time to enjoy the results and letting the miracle of nature do its thing, as more and more plants come into flower while others fade beautifully (such as the clematis seedheads in this arrangement). For this month's arrangement, I ventured outside of my own garden to my Mum's where I collected sunflowers, heleniums, crocosmia, dahlias, knifophia (red hot pokers) clematis and peachy roses. I

Quite a contrast from the soft pinks and greens of May, my garden in June is full of bright jewel tones. Everything in this arrangement is cut from my garden. It contains annuals: sweetpeas, corncockle, cosmos, cornflowers and larkspur, a biennial foxglove, and perennials: alchemilla mollis, dahlias, spirea foliage, and anemone and blue allium bulbs. This lovely pompom dahlia is called ‘Franz Kafka’. He’s almost too perfect to believe. I also made some small buttonholes with