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WHEN MY FRIEND DEE NASH saw this bouquet she proclaimed “this is a bit of purple heaven!”

The wistful arrangement of blue, purple and plum flowers looks quite awesome against the chartreuse vase. It includes ingredients gathered on a weekend in early June when I traversed the state of Washington with Lorene Edwards Forkner, a friend and fellow writer. We left Seattle to drive to Pullman, where Suzanne St. Pierre and Scotty Thompson hosted us as speakers at Living in the Garden, one of the most charming country nurseries you’ll ever find.

Suzanne sent us to visit Jane Stratton of Sunshine Crafts and Flowers on Old Moscow Road, just a few miles away. Jane’s cut-flower farm and bouquet subscription service is a hit with her local customers and florists. We gazed across her orderly fields of perennials, annuals, ornamental shrubs and grasses, beauty bursting from every row. And then we began to snip our favorites!