This week marked the end of the school year for both of my girls. For teacher presents, I asked them if they would like to give a gift card for coffee or a flower bouquet.  They both chose flowers.  Yay, I am raising them right! What woman doesn't love to receive flowers?


First were the flowers for Teacher Denise and Teacher Cindy at Bethany Covenant Preschool in Mount Vernon.  They loved the flowers and Chloe was very proud to hand them the presents.  We will miss these lovely, caring teachers!


Chloe was very particular about what flowers she wanted, "the tall pink ones that smell good".  She was talking about the lupine, which does smell heavenly. Also included in the bouquets are peonies, mint, oregano and ladies mantle.  Ladies mantle is that perfect shade of lime green/yellow that works so well with flower colors.  


Next were the flowers for Ms Rittenhouse and Mrs Mirante at ICRS in Mount Vernon. We chose blue and white flowers, the school colors. Both teachers know Ava helps in the garden, so they were very happy to receive flowers from her.  Ava was very sad to be leaving their class but Chloe gets to attend next year.  So we don't have to leave these great teachers just yet.


Isn't this white peony gorgeous?  So full of petals.  Also included were delphinium, oregano, mint, ladies mantle, star-of-bethlehem and love-in-a-mist. The blue and white color combination is a great one for spring, a nice change to the pink tones.

Though we are sad school is over for the year, we are so excited to start summer break. Now we just need warm weather to arrive and all the summer weddings.  Let the fun begin!

I had the pleasure of providing bouquets for the teachers luncheon at Immaculate Conception Regional School in Mount Vernon. The graduating 8th graders put on the event. My oldest daughter starts school here in the fall, so we were very excited to start helping with school functions. 

Since the peonies were just starting to bloom, I created beautiful bouquets of coral and burgundy flowers.  I hope the teachers enjoyed them!



Flowers used are coral and burgundy peonies, mint, lupine, love-in-a-mist, lunaria seed pods, lady's mantle and aruncus leaves.  Isn't the lupine a gorgeous color?  And they smell delightful.



The peonies were not open for the picture, as they were still cool.  But when open, they are semi-double.



Here the bouquets are loaded in the car for delivery.  I use these old wooden boxes my dad made when I was young, for use in his boat.  They are the perfect height for this size vase, keeping the flowers safe during the drive.  Love re-using items I find in our barn!