bouquets in sherbert flavors

Three sherbert-y bouquets, tangerine, lemon and passionfruit.  Each of these has a mitigating factor of white and/or ivory, and just a touch of clear green to add definition.  While they are all designed in relatively the same style:  hand-tied with a bit of the garden, I think the designs get a little more interesting as you go down the line, the last bouquet being my favorite of the three, as I think it shows the most personality.  The change in texture from the Cafe au Lait dahlia to the snowberries does it for me - the dinner plate dahlia against the clusters of symphoricarpos, a native shrub to our garden in Virginia, although the shrubs in the wild part of my garden bear no resemblance to the cultivated white beauties you see here.  








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