To express this feeling of Indian Summer in flowers - and create the sultry atmosphere in our homes - combine as many tones as possible in a lush bouquet. From bright to pale, from sunlight to shadow, with many red and orange touches. Green foliage is less important, but red and greyish-green leaves go well with this theme.

Such bouquets look best in thick-walled, ethnic earthenware pots, decorated with braided or worked leather, feathers and colourful glass beads. Indeed anything evoking the landscape of the Grand Canyon; the southern foothills of the Rocky Mountains; or the colours of Mexico.
Such bouquets look best in thick-walled, ethnic earthenware pots, decorated with braided or worked leather, feathers and colourful glass beads. Indeed anything evoking the landscape of the Grand Canyon; the southern foothills of the Rocky Mountains; or the colours of Mexico.

And what flowers express this Indian Summer feeling best? Lush peppery chrysanthemums, with their powerful burst of colour; gladioli, with their deep purple and red tones; intense crocosmia and mini-gerbera; and, finally, sweet-smelling roses, the symbol of eternal love and long-lived summers.

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