I needed to revamp the ikebana today, but I have so much orange in the garden at the moment I just wanted to use some subtler colours…

The honeysuckle smells amazing so I thought I’d try to use some…

…as well as a tiny piece of fennel as I didn’t want to pick the large flowers…

and as this evergreen shrub ( I’m not entirely sure what it is ) is flowering too, I thought it would provide some frothy texture…

I started to arrange the honeysuckle…

…but just couldn’t get it to flow

So I took it all out and just used a stem which didn’t have many flowers on…

I then added poppy stems and fennel…

…and had a bit more of a fiddle before I was happy to leave it alone!