Exochorda x macrantha The Bride, Delphinium Lord Butler, lilacs and apple blossom, tulips Spring Green, Grand Perfection, Helmar, Spring Green, Burning Heart, Flaming Parrot, Paul Scherer, Brown Sugar, Raspberry Ripple, Ranunculus (left) Lilacs (Syringa Charles Joly and Katherine Havemeyer) and Delphinium Loch Nevis, Euphorbia, Ammi, Solomon’s Seal, Ranunculus, Narcissus (right)
Sweet rocket, Orlaya grandiflora, Ammi majus, Digitalis Sutton’s Apricot, Euphorbia oblongata, Centranthus ruber, tulips Grand Perfection, Sorbet and Francoise, white ranunculus and delphiniums (left). Ammi, spirea, Delphinium Blue Dawn, lilacs, tulips Flaming Parrot, Tulip Sorbet, Spring Green, Helmar, Sutton’s apricot, white pink and red ranunculus, euphorbia oblongata.
Double white lilacs (Syringa Madame Lemoine) Delphinium Cupid, Hesperis matronalis – white and lavender, Rose Olivia Rose Austin, Digitalis purpurea, Digitalis Sutton’s Apricot, Centranthus ruber, aquilegias, foliage of Rosa Alba Semi-Plena and Euphorbia oblongata.
Tulips Belle Epoque, Blueberry Ripple, Grand Perfection, Flaming Heart, and white, red and pink ranunculus. Lilacs (Syringa Charles Joly and Syringa Katherine Havemeyer) (left). Tulips Flaming Parrot, Pink Impression, Rasperry Ripple, Blueberry Ripple, Mickey Mouse, Burning Heart and Black Charm, Apricot Pride, Flaming Parrot and Spring Green.
Lilacs, aquilegia, iris, Rosa Heritage, blackcurrant leaf, Delphinium Lord Butler, double white lilac (Syringa Madame Lemoine), Hesperis matronalis – both white and purple, Digitalis purpurea (left). Lilac (Syringa Charles Joly), euphorbia oblongata, spirea, lily flowered tulip Marilyn, tulip Blueberry Ripple and Ammi majus.
Tulips Belle Epoque, Violet Beauty, Burning Heart, Grand Perfection, Ivory Floradale, Brown Sugar, Design impression, Raspberry Ripple, Blueberry Ripple, Black Charm, Fringed Elegance and Sorbet. Lilacs (Syringa Katherine Havemeyer), Delphinium Cupid, apple blossom, white and pink ranunculus, tulips Helmar, Blueberry Ripple, Spring Green and Exorchorda x macrantha The Bride.
No nonsense instructions on how to arrange flowers from “Down The Garden Path” by Beverley Nichols, published 1932, Jonathan Cape Ltd.
