Inspiration from nature

The French countryside is awash in color during spring and the early weeks of summer. There are fields covered with wild red poppies, called coquelicot and houses draped in boughs of wisteria.
It's easy to see French textile manufacturers were inspired by the beauty of the surrounding countryside to create designs for floral printed fabrics.

 

Color, color everywhere

This post is simply for the enjoyment of French spring colors.
The red of the local poppies (coquelicots), lavender wisteria (glycine), yellow baby roses with a lizard basking in the sun, pale pink and white cherry blossoms, bright green leaves of a climbing vine and the tiny new leaves on the grape vines.