Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Historic Agrarian Modern Arrangements

Perfect, arrangement, below.  Florist style, without flowers, without expense.
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Only recently have I  begun making 'arrangements'.  Who has time for that?  People, without a life, made arrangements.  Now, apparently that is me.  Oddly, life gets crazier, necessity increases to hunt/gather and create arrangements for the house.  My life 'fell out', so choices had to be made. 
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Hungering for joy, the choice was easy.
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Aside from the expense of store bought flowers, their footprint upon Earth isn't something I wish to partake.  What about flowers in my own garden?  Rather a mood about those too.  Taking my own flowers, takes away pollinator food, and later, their seeds won't exist upon Earth.
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What to do?
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Bushes need pruning, and there's plenty of roadside greenery, pure joy taking clippers/basket, zero guilt.


Pic, above, here.
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Line and form are the most important layers of historic agrarian modern garden design.  Exactly the gardens I relish.
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Not a stretch, understanding, my love for the arrangement, above. 
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Silhouette, above, of the greenery, its scale to the container, and relationship between greenery/container using rustic/formal.  Full on miniature historic agrarian modern garden design in an urn.
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Notice the debris field, above?  Quite amusing, and part of the process, creating.
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I create arrangements on the front porch of our ca. 1900 home.  With its historic agrarian modern garden design, sweeping clippings, from making arrangements, off the porch, enriches the soil, and is covered with foliage.  Win/win.
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Hunted/gathered greenery, often has a lifespan of a month as an arrangement. 
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Understanding the alchemy of creating these historic agrarian modern floral arrangements, and what they add to my life & home, pure visceral.  Yet what are the words for the creation, then enjoyment?
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Grace and joy arrive quickly, but it's deeper than that.
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A transcendence.
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Certainly worth the price, becoming one-of-those-people-without-a-life !
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Garden & Be Well,   XO T

5 comments:

Penelope Bianchi said...

My favorite arrangements are the trimmings from the bushes and branches. Beautiful! What do you mean, your life "fell out"?

Please let me know! This scares me

I care so much about you!

Penelope Bianchi said...

OH, by the way, Tara, you will never become on e of those people without a life.

That day will not dawn. Please believe me.

Barbara Pilcher said...

JUicy food for thought, as usual! Thank you for sharing the intelligence you bring to gardening and living. I am currently readiny Michael Pollan's Second Nature and consequently thinking of you.

La Contessa said...

I DID THIS YESTERDAY AS I NEEDED TO GET OUT OF THE CASA!!!!!!!!!
MADE ME SO HAPPY!!!!!
XX

Dewena said...

I love this post so much! RH goes to the hedgerows here for my flower arrangements. And all around me right now I see vases of tall dill stalks (second volunteer growth and yellow flowers on them are just beginning to open) and tarragon and other tender herbs cut and brought in yesterday before our first hard freeze of the season last night, I can't help but think they're more beautiful than any florist blooms. And our house smells lovely. And easy snippings last night over our soup bowls.