Inspiration: Welcoming Autumn

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. - Henry Miller

 These arrangements are brimming with copper beech, scabiosa, foxglove, anemones, dahlias, roses, garden roses, dogwood, viburnum berries, and cotinus.

Fall, Leaves, Fall by Emily Brontë 

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;

Lengthen night and shorten day;

Every leaf speaks bliss to me

Fluttering from the autumn tree.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow

Blossom where the rose should grow;

I shall sing when night’s decay

Ushers in a drearier day.

 This bouquet is brimming with banksia, Baccara roses, red viburnum berries, plumosa, spray roses, leucadendron, skimmia, Quicksand roses, Nina roses, scabiosa, gomphrena, amaranthus, Italian ruscus, and copper beech.

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.