studio flowers

One of my favourite things about studio life is the flowers. They live in an old glass jar on top of our lovely wooden shop counter and can't help but catch the eye of each visitor.

For the first week I tried bunches of roses bought from the local farmer market – they lasted only a few days in the summer heat. After that expensive disappointment I decided to try local, native flowers from the gum trees the council had planted on the footpaths. Native, colourful, local and free – a perfect solution. And popular too – more than one studio visitor has admired their colour, beauty and simplicity. One even remembered that last week I had orange flowers.

I love watching them evolve over the days – from closed buds to popping open to unfurling to fully opened.

 

Week one was a bright neon orange, week two a paler coral orange and this week is two shades of pink. For week four I'm hoping for bright red – but I'm still trying to find a tree that has flowers at a height I can harvest without the use of a ladder! Not quite inconspicuous that ladder.