A Hands-on Bouquet With Pink Roses

I am back to share my monthly bouquet (a especially sweet Christmas present from the hubs). And simply like last month’s gaggle of flora, this month’s blooms did not hail from the grocery store at all. In lieu of the normal $3-5 bouquet, we spent zero dollars and zero cents clipping a bunch of fuschia and coral roses from our backyard. Simply like last month’s irises, they are courtesy of the previous owners, and although we have no idea how to nurture roses (we have never fertilized them or anything) they simply keep coming back year after year like clockwork. Here they are living it up a lively ruby red vase on our living room side table:

I enjoy the two tones of blooms together, and especially like how strong they look with the deeper fuschia ones around the perimeter while the coral ones fill in the middle of the arrangement.

Even John has stopped to admire this month’s bouquet. Perhaps it is because we rarely have red & pink accents in our house, so it certainly pops and begs to be noticed. Gotta enjoy such a punchy (free) accessory.

So what about you folks? Have you snagged any cheerful flowers courtesy of your backyard or your local grocery store? We’d enjoy to know what blooms are tickling your fancy these days and what bouquets your backyard is yielding now that summer is upon us.

Wanna see our first grocery store bouquet from last January? Itching to check out February, March, April, and May too? Simply follow the links for some fairly sweet low-cost-o bouquets.