KATIE CHARLOTTE FIEDLER
14.06.2024 - 09:31 / balconygardenweb.com
Cosmos flowers are for harmony and balance, so if you’re looking for these things, it would be a great choice for you. Let’s see what they represent and get into these.
Cosmos flowers are known for their simple beauty and pretty colors of pink, white, and purple. Similarly, a cosmos flower shows beauty and appreciation for the simple things in life. You will often see these in people who love enjoying everyday moments.
Cosmos flowers are hardy and can tolerate a lot of conditions that make them reflect the person’s capacity for resilience and adaptability. These tattoos show how you have or are trying to overcome challenges in life and growing through them.
Cosmos flowers are seen as a bridge between the physical and spiritual realms and are lovely choices for positive energy and harmony. A tattoo of a Cosmos shows the desire or journey to find inner peace and a sense of balance in life.
Here’s a gorgeous chocolate Cosmos flower with bumblebee ink, or as the artist calls it, a Chungee Bumbo.
You can also get a pretty trio of Cosmos flowers on the arm. These are also chocolate Cosmos but you can get them in any color.
If you’re not a fan of colored inks, why not go with a shaded piece like this? It brings out the highlights.
Cosmos flowers look amazing in black and gray inks as well. Just look at this one.
Nothing can beat the beauty of a simple Cosmos stem. You can also add a memorial date like these Roman numerals.
Check out this delicate Cosmos flower without outlines paired with the quote, “Be tough.”
This Cosmos flower design has the petals done in fine line with the leaves slightly shaded.
You can also pair up Cosmos flowers with others. Take this violet, for example; it’s for spiritual wisdom.
This pink Cosmos flower is just
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Planting up a flower bed can seem a bit daunting to begin with. Initially, it’s important to consider factors such as the size of your bed, how much sun it gets, the quality of your soil and what kind of planting and colour scheme will suit your house style and your own preferences.
Zen gardens provide places for contemplation and relaxation in the whirl of busy modern life. They emerged as spaces for meditation around the fourteenth century in Japan. In Zen Buddhist temples of the time, a new style of garden was developed based on ancient traditions and intended to represent the Japanese landscape. These representations weren’t meant to be realistic – instead they included abstract forms, such as rocks and waves raked in gravel, to symbolise natural features. The purpose of a Zen garden was to inspire profound thoughts and meditation.
Image: Hampton Court Flower Festival. Credit: RHS
You can easily grow this plant with seeds.
Homeowners and renters alike have flipped the switch on how their lighting should feel. Bright and sterile overhead lighting is getting replaced with small and moody ambient lighting as more and more people ditch the big light for more custom options. You’re probably already familiar with the concept of mood lighting, but there are more benefits to leaving your big light behind than just for the sake of ambiance. Try a combination of our creative ideas for unique ways to light up your space without the typical overhead light to discover them for yourself.
This year Chelsea Flower Show was full of interesting trees and shrubs with lots of dreamy woodland-edge planting in dappled light underneath leafy canopies. Native trees such as hawthorns, hazels and silver birch were the favoured choices in many of the show gardens, with a mixture of native and non-native ornamental plants selected for resilience and sustainability. In Ula Maria’s Forest Bathing Garden, white foxgloves, cow parsley and other umbellifers like Baltic parsley (Cenolophium denudatum) and valerian (Valeriana officinalis) were mixed with the simple shade-loving grass Melica altissima ‘Alba’ while Tom Stuart-Smith showcased intricate tapestries of interesting foliage in different shapes and textures. In other gardens, orange was a popular colour in many shades, from deep rusty orange irises to pale orange geums, especially in Ann Marie-Powell’s exuberant Octavia Hill Garden. As always, the Grand Pavilion is the ideal place to discover new and interesting plants showcased by some of the country’s leading nurseries.
The beauty of the brightly-hued daisy-like cosmos flower is undisputed, but is there something more to it? What sets this blossom apart in the far-reaching world of blooms? Read on to find out the meaning of the Cosmos flower and why everyone should grow it!
In a sunny garden, creating shady spots can be a great way to enjoy being outside on hot, sunny days. Not only does shade provide a break from the summer sun but it also lowers temperatures, which can bring comfort when it’s blisteringly hot. Whether you want somewhere to sit, relax, read, eat or entertain, there are lots of great shade options to suit almost every garden style and your budget.
A rose garden used to mean a garden planted only with roses.
Once the temperature rises, and that unwavering urge to spend even more time outside kicks in, the great outdoors becomes the best room of the house. (For a few glorious months, Mother Nature replaces our living room… dining room… and, yes, even our kitchen!) However, just like in your home’s interiors, an outdoor space hinges on selecting the right furniture.
Hannah Rose Rivers Muller is essentially a farmer-florist by birth. She was born at Full Belly Farm, located in the rural, charming Capay Valley of Northern California, and works there to this day. She gained her expertise similarly to how plants absorb water, through osmosis—her skills and knowledge a result of the very soil she was raised on. Here she learned the inner workings of the flower fields, small hands exploring the ground, taking naps in harvest baskets between colorful rows, watching seasons change in vibrancy and texture, and admiring her mother who skillfully nurtured and expanded the flower fields over the decades with care.