Friday flowers - daphne

    Deborah was writing about Daphne odora the other day and she's spot on in her description of the scent. The flowers shown here are on my desk, and the fragrance - from just two sprigs - is indeed sublime.

Comments

[Lee]

I do love the scent of Daphne. My little one has just reached the end of her blooming but it was lovely while it lasted.

[Lyn]

Daphne is one of my favourite flowers & scents. I have a lovely daphne in the back garden & I was in a nursery just this morning thinking about buying a white daphne to put in a pot. One of the blessings of winter.

[Rose]

I've spotted a cornflower!

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ra-magazine/spring-2012/in-the-studio-gillian-wearing-ra,347,RAMA.html
'Gillian Wearing' Whitechapel Gallery, London, 020 7522 7888, www.whitechapelgallery.org,
28 March–17 June

“This flower display, as yet unnamed, is one of the works for her new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, a major survey of her work.

The arrangement echoes Jan ‘Velvet’ Brueghel’s A Stoneware Vase of Flowers (c.1607-08) at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It also has the mood of a memento mori, and brings to mind the gaudy bouquets that these days are found at roadside shrines. A heap of stems, discarded or not yet used, makes a colourful, disorderly pile on the polished wooden floor. Scissors, wire, masking tape, snippets of that flower-arranger’s godsend, Oasis Foam, surround the base of the vase, the kind of work in progress you might find in the back room of a florist.”

[Cornflower]

You're very good at spotting them, Rose! Many thanks for the link.

[Cornflower]

Yes, indeed.

[Cornflower]

I must go and find another sprig or two to bring in - the scent is lost where it is outside.