Sunday 1 February 2015

In bloom: hydrangeas

Every so often, we pen an ode to a flower that's in season and ripe for the picking (or more likely, buying) and filling your apartment with. If ever there was a bloom that perfectly captured the essence of summer, the hydrangea would be it. We love how Sydney is awash in pastels at this time of year - from the violet plumage of jacarandas to the sky blues, candy pinks, mauves, mints and even crimson colours of hydrangeas. 

With their cloud-like form and sculptural stems, hydrangeas are beautiful grouped en masse or styled as single stems in bud vases. If you change the water, they really last weeks - it may be hard to believe, but we still have only ever-so-slightly faded blooms left from early January. Feast your eyes on the petal perfection below...

Image via oldnavy.gap.com

Our favourite Saturday markets find (along with a cronut and coffee, please). 

Image via treasuresandtravelsblog.com

Purple-toned hydrangeas divided amongst recycled glasses for a stunning windowsill display.

 Image via thistlewoodfarms.com

Milk glass vessels are the ideal complement to lollipop pink blossoms.

Image via stephaniesterjovski.com.

Diptyque candle? tick. Fashion tomes? tick. White hydrangeas? Tick, tick, tick.


It's hydrangeas aplenty at Estee Lauder heiress Aerin Lauder's sigh-inducing Hamptons home (above).

Image via Fenton & Fenton.

{SHOP THE STYLE} 

Bask in the beauty of hydrangeas no matter what the season with these inspired homewares, from hydrangea-printed cushions as styled in the gloriously colourful boudoir above (also available in upholstered vintage mannequins) to limited edition art prints. 





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