Picture Picnic 🅿🅿: Flowers and Vintage Flickr Group

Styling and photography by Ingrid Henningsson for Of Spring and Summer

Ribbon from Jane Means collection.

That Ranunculus is a big favourite is no surprise. Its a romantic, delicate and feminine flower that appeals to most people.

The author and gardener Sarah Raven says: "Everyone loves these as cut flowers and they're good in the garden too."

The flower has whorls of petals that are like tissue-paper and arching long stems. They look best when they are fully opened but they are all right to buy in bud and let them develop in the vase.

As a cut flower Ranunculus last for about a week, they are not happy in floral foam so should be placed in a vase with plenty of space.

Ranunculus come in a wide variety of colours - pink, red, yellow, orange, white, purple, apricot, even green, as well as multi-coloured and they come as single or double flowers. Flowering season is usually from January till May.

Image by Helena Söderberg at craftandcreativity

Image by Maria at marissen

Image by Radostina Bosseva at 79ideas

Image by pillipilli at abitofpilliplli

Image by Elena Kovyrzina at elenakovyrzina

Image by Susana Oliveira at citrusandorange

Styling and photography by Ingrid Henningsson for Of Spring and Summer.

All images are from the Flickr group Flowers and Vintage that I moderate and all images link back to Flickr and the photographers blog or website.

I hope you enjoyed some of the pretty images of Ranunculus and that you have found some inspiration.

Thanks for visiting and for making lovely comments.

xoxo Ingrid