HYACINTH & JAPANESE MAPLE
A group of pale pink and lilac hyacinth with Japanese maple in a glorious ginger brown leaves tipped with raspberry pink, mauve-grey hellebores, ferns and lemon daffodils.
MARCH
INGREDIENTS
Acer (Japanese maple)
Dryopteris (wood fern)
Hyacinthus ‘City of Bradford’ & ‘China Pink’ (hyacinth)
Helleborus ‘Maestro’ & ‘Harvington White Speckled’ (hellebore)
Narcissi (daffodil)
VASE
A cream ceramic ‘curvy’ vase by James Burnett-Stuart
NOTES
Colour and texture - two essentially important elements in floral design. Here, the intricate ginger feathers of unfurling Japanese maple contrast well with what we call ‘a strong leaf’ - bright green, sword-shaped ferns. The grey and plum tones of the hellebores could be dreary on their own, but are lifted by the addition of creamy and citrus yellow Narcissi and the jazzy hyacinths, used low as a filler.