A work in progress.

A glorious spring bouquet coming into being.

Colours, shapes and fragrance meet.

After a morning wander through the beds and borders, a gardener has brought back their bounty to the flower room and puts their creative mind to work on all that magnificence.

In a small glass vase on the marble slab, they start to arrange:

Aquilegia

Auricula primula

Catmint

Flaming parrot tulips

Geraniums

Hellebore

Pelargonium 

Peonies

Roses of several varieties and

Violets

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Delicate butterflies have wafted in from the garden and landed on the bouquets. Their wings, pale orange, paler blue, mirroring the petals. 

And on the slab in front, a lemon and fig that might work well in the composition, a rose and some pansies that haven’t made the grade and a pair of well-used secateurs, the ultimate tools of this gardener’s trade.