Bouquet «Hors-Mesure»

This accumulation is deliberate. Hors-mesure: beyond reasonable measure. A left-panel "Garden of Earthly Delights" by Bosch, c. 1495–1505 — paradise before the fall, where every creature, fruit, plant exists in full presence without hierarchy. A beauty that does not rank itself. Pink Sarah Bernhardt peonies hold the centre — double, fragrant, dense in flesh. Pink hydrangea lays a cloudy matter. Green viburnum — the snowball Roseum — sets the rhythm in spheres. Orange leucospermum Sunburst brings the graphic peak. Spider gerberas open as stars. The Girlfriend rose, deep magenta, holds the accent. The pink anthurium closes the composition with a wax-like density. Seven flowers from different seasons and different continents. The leucospermum comes from the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, a cousin of protea. The hydrangea comes from Japan. The peonies are Chinese in origin, naturalised in Europe in the 19th century. The anthurium is tropical, from the Colombian Andes. This bouquet is a cabinet of botanical curiosities, the kind composed in 17th-century Europe. A geography on a single table. This is a bouquet for a large vase. For a large room. For moments that deserved to be excessive. A gallery retrospective. A dinner for twenty. A homecoming. A statement that isn't made under one's breath. The flowers open and close at different speeds. The viburnum holds for two weeks. So does the leucospermum. The peonies go first — it is their pact with beauty. The bouquet changes every day without ceasing to be itself. Want a different palette? Peonies in white or burgundy. Gerberas in red, white, yellow. Leucospermum in pink or yellow. Hydrangea in blue. WhatsApp before ordering. I make it. No extra charge. Delivery in Paris, Monday to Saturday. At the right moment. Not the day before. Not three hours before.