Spring Styled Shoot
- The Saol Project
- Jun 9, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 9, 2020
Spring offers some of the most beautiful flowers! After the tulips and narcissus come the ranunculus and anemones, which are definitely crowd favourites. Our ranunculus and anemone patch is just starting to bloom after a terribly cold April and start of May (We had snow and hail!).
I decided to do an impromptu styled shoot to show off the very first flowers of the season. I challenged myself to use only what was blooming in the field and some trailing ivy that I found. Here's what I came up with! To me it feels a bit like a romantic enchanted forest - if an enchanted forest was hosting a spring dinner party
I started by harvesting some open anemones, a few ranunculus and some long tendrils of ivy.
Next, I bundled each of the like varieties together and put them into little bud vases - the white anemones together, the bordeaux anemones together, etc. I also found some salvia, two Koko Loco garden roses and some flowering ninebark. I snipped little bundles of all these and put them into their own bud vases.
Pro Tip: you can create more of an impact for the viewer if each vase is filled with one type of flower or greenery. Mixing all the varieties together can sometimes look like a big mess, whereas blocking each vase with a specific variety allows the eye to rest on each section easily. Here are some of the individual bud vases below so you get the idea.
Once I had all of my flowers in little vases, the rest came together pretty quickly! I laid a sheer white table runner along my harvest table and set four place settings with my own plates, cutlery and wine glasses. I put the bud vases on top of the table runner and trailed the ivy tendrils throughout. I also added a sweet little detail of twine-wrapped salvia to each place setting just to give it that extra touch.
Last, I hung lights and draped ivy to add some intimacy and romance. I think the contrast between the light strings and the whimsical ivy is quite beautiful - tying everything together.
That's it! It took approximately an hour to put it all together (and then I spent another hour photographing it all). I will leave you with a few other angles, some detail shots and a wee video.
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