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Monday, 4 May 2020

Flower Crown on Monday

You may or may not know that it's Garden Day UK on 10th May. Generally this is an opportunity to get together with friends and family, wear Flower Crowns and enjoy your garden. 
This year, of course, the getting together bit is going to be tricky but we are still encouraged to make flower crowns and enjoy our gardens. Let's hope the weather is good. This was a weekend of two halves here. Warm and sunny on Saturday and then cold and drizzly on Sunday which took me by surprise. We might have to enjoy our garden through the window. 
Florists are doing tutorials and videos and I'm posting a few pictures on Instagram this week. 

I made this Flower Crown using a birch twig base which was just two twigs bound round each other. Then I added little bunches of flowers and foliage tied on with string. There are many ways to make crowns but this is very easy. 


I hung up the first one I ever made and it dried in situ on the wall. Eventually, after about 2 years, I threw it away when it was really too faded and dusty.  That's why I'm showing this one here as I thought I'd do the same. 

We'll see how it dries, if it's awful it's off to the compost heap.

 Obviously I'm expecting everyone to be making crowns next weekend and to be showing them off next Monday. (It doesn't matter if you are in the UK or not!)
Join in with Cathy at Rambling in the Garden to see what every one else has found to put In a Vase on Monday.

 Oh alright, here is a picture of me wearing it

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13 comments:

  1. the running wave4 May 2020 at 13:18

    Love your flower crown Alison. I know that Debbie at East Lothian Flower Farm (who I help with bits and pieces) is going to be doing flower crown kits for Garden Day! Yours is beautiful! Thank you. Amanda https://therunningwave.blogspot.com/2020/05/in-vase-on-monday.html

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    1. AlisonC5 May 2020 at 12:02

      Oh good idea. Do you know how much she is charging for those?

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  2. Cathy4 May 2020 at 17:32

    Whoohoo! Glad we got to see you wearing it, Alison ;)It looks gorgeous, both on and off, and with my bundle of willow stems I have of course little excuse for not making one myself...!

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  3. Anna4 May 2020 at 19:30

    That' so pretty Alison and lovely to put a face to your name. I wish that I had the patience and manual dexterity to put a floral crown together but I would only end up stabbing myself. If I come across some buttercups in the meantime I will have a go.

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    1. AlisonC5 May 2020 at 12:03

      It really isn't fiddly if you just use string and don't try wiring.

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  4. Kris Peterson5 May 2020 at 00:21

    What a wonderful creation, Alison! I can't even conceive of the US designating a Garden Day - the fact that the UK has one, and that it involves wearing floral crowns, says a lot about the differences between the garden culture there and here.

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    1. AlisonC5 May 2020 at 12:04

      I suspect there is only a tiny proportion of people who know about it and even less who wear a crown. But we do love our gardens. It may but more popular this year as we have little else we are able to do.

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  5. Stasher5 May 2020 at 07:18

    The challenge is on Alison...Thanks for showing us how. You truly look like a garden fairy crowned for the day.

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  6. Lisa at Greenbow5 May 2020 at 10:47

    And a beautiful crown it is. I can see why you would want to keep it. You should wear it often. :)

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    1. AlisonC5 May 2020 at 12:05

      It's strange but my family look at me oddly when I wear one!

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  7. Cathy7 May 2020 at 07:57

    Beautiful! Suits you too! :-) We should wear them all the time! ;-)

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