A lovely bouquet from the forest

Hello! Here is a little bouquet I kept for you as a little holiday souvenir. I made it during an evening walk in the Jura with my husband, while Ella was already asleep and my parents in law looking after her.  Everytime I went for a walk, I decided on a colour - I love monochrome bouquets - or on a a combination of colours. I love blue and yellow together. My mum's favourite colours.  This bouquet is made of:

• Buttercup
• Veronica
• Edelflower
• Colombine
• Daisiy

I wish you all a splendid day! Elodie

#flowersonmyway in May

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@zuckerzimtundliebe//@stilzitat

Hello everyone! I am back from my little lunch in the park, as the weather was threatening to get nasty, and I thought I would take some time to write my long overdue post with the winners of #flowersonmyway for May. I am so happy that more than 500 pictures have already been posted since I started the project a few Month ago, with contributions from all over the world. That's one of the reasons why I really love Instagram - It is a true international platform, where almost everyone writes in English, and I love following the daily life of creative people in Korea, the USA or France and see which flower is passing their way right now. I was very happy to see so many poppies, peonies and roses this month! The winners are welcome to send me their postal address to this email address: elodie@madame-love.com, if they want to receive some snail mail from me. I wish you a great day tomorrow! Elodie

forget-me-not

Hello everyone, I took quite a long break while in France, but I hope you didn't forget me! Here is a little Forget-Me-Not bouquet with flowers from the garden I showed you yesterday. Have a great day! Elodie

garden tour

Hello dear flower friends, I hope you are all doing well. I am back from my long holiday in France with a lot of memories and a lot of new experiences for my little Ella: first ice cream, first long walk in the forest, first ride in a horse drawn carriage, first swim in a swimming pool... I enjoyed so much seeing my family and my friends and spending time in Provence and Paris. I also took the opportunity to spend as much as I could in the nature and in the garden. Today I would like to show you some pictures I took in the garden of my mother in law.  I am especially in love with the double aquilegia and the myosotis. I love the contrasting colours and the interesting shape of the aquilegia makes it super interesting to photograph. I wish you a great day! Elodie

Roses and Hellebores from the garden in a blue vase

  Hello everyone! New day means new bouquet for my #onebouquetperday challenge initiated by Juliane from the frokenskicklig. You can see my bouquets so far here, here and there and also on Instagram of course. Today's bouquet is really my kind of bouquets: simple and a little bit wild, in a very rustic vessel. I love the imperfection of the garden roses and the beautiful shades of the hellebore. See you tomorrow with some more flowers! Elodie

A bouquet of Clematis and Aquilegia

Hello everyone! Just a short post to show you my bouquet today from the #onebouquetperday series while I am in France. Today I decided to make a bouquet with some clematis and a couple of aquilegia in the same shade of pink. I hope you will like them. They don't last very long in a vase, but I still like them very much. See you tomorrow for the next flowers from my parents garden. I might show you some more Pierre de Ronsard roses before the end of the week as they are just gorgeous at the moment. Have a great day! Elodie

roses and peonies

Hello everyone, The good thing with the rain outside, is that the garden is gorgeous! So many shades of green and the flowers are blooming everywhere. I can't stop making bouquets. As soon as Ella is having a nap and it's not raining, I am out in the garden making bouquets. Oh my god, how much I wish it could be my job someday. If it happens, I would really love to do wedding decoration with wild flowers and blooms from the garden. Today's bouquet is everything but wild. Roses and peonies from white to bright pink in a precious lalique vase. My favourite rose is the pink, climbing Eden rose, that we also call Pierre de Ronsard in France. This bouquet would be perfect for a pastel wedding. What do you think? This will also be my bouquet for the #onebouquetperday Challenge on Instagram. Have a great day everyone and see you tomorrow with my new bouquet. Same garden, totally different style. Bisous de France, Elodie

From the garden with love

Hello everyone!I am in France now for the next three weeks, spending time with my family and enjoying some time off with little miss Ella. I am participating in Juliane's Instagram Challenge #onebouquetperday and will be posting my bouquets mainly on Instagram, but also from times to times on the blog. For this bouquet, I used mainly some Aquilegia and some thyme from the garden. Today, you can also read me on the Backbube's blog for a little blogpost in German about decorating your flat like in the film Amelie. I wish you all a great day full of flowers! Elodie

A bouquet of globe flowers

Hello! The other day, I bought those beautiful flowers for the first time. They are called Trollius, or globe flowers, because of the beautiful shape of their petals, curved over the top of the flower, forming a globe. The petals are bright yellow and the pistil orange. I think they are really happy flowers and look fantastic in a contrasting blue vase. They are closely related to ranunculus and their leaves look really like those of an anemone.  If you find them in a shop, don't hesitate to buy them, they don't just look pretty, they also last pretty long in a vase.

I wish you all a great day! I am flying to France on Saturday. You can follow my adventures on Instagram and I will also be posting my bouquets from the garden and the forest on the blog regularly. xoxo Elodie

Mini Bouquet of Aquilegia

Good Morning,I have a lovely mini bouquet for you today in a mini vase I found in Amsterdam, made by ceramic artist kirstie van noort. I really love her work, so simple and beautiful.  The flower I used is called Aquilegia, but is also called Granny's Bonnet, Columbine or Akalai. The name Aquilegia is derived from the Latin word for eagle (aquila), because the shape of the flower petals, which are said to resemble an eagle's claw. The common name columbine comes from the Latin for dove, due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together. Symbolism of columbine flowers is often combined with symbolic numbers. Thus, the tripartite leaves were seen as symbols of Trinity, seven columbine flowers can be interpreted as the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.  I love the complex shape of the flower and the contrast between the colour of the petals and the yellow of the pistil, which makes a it a perfect flower for a miniature bouquet.

Have a wonderful day and speak to you soon! Elodie

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