For the love of color

I started using some foliage from unlikely plants
this year. 

I've been playing around with bouquets of flowers that grow around the house, and last week I decided to think outside the box. I gathered a lot of different greens from the plants we have growing around the property. I don't know their names, I just like the varying hues of green they produce, and the textures.

These are a few of the bouquets I liked best.

We grow a variety of  strawberries that produce really large leaves, and large berries. I used the strawberry leaves to add a little surprise to the arrangement. Oh, and BTW, those leaves last forever in a vase. I also used some Heuchera leaves in a couple of the bouquets and found that they also stick around for a while before they begin to wilt. I like the variety of color in the leaves.

The dahlias and zinnias are in bloom now.  I love this little vase. It's handmade pottery, and I got
it at our community fair for $5. 

I clipped this hydrangea a little early. It was white when I cut it, but after it was in the vase
for a few days the inside where the petals meet began to turn a beautiful blue.