Leaves, Twigs and Seeds at the de Young — It’s Art, but Is It a Bouquet?

By Barbara Falconer Newhall.

Nothing seems to be off limits to the 130-plus floral designers who’ve filled the courts and galleries of the de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco this week with arrangements of flowers, twigs, branches, seed pods, pussy willows and succulents for the museum’s annual exhibition Bouquets to Art.

To my mind, these arrangements — which range from simple and lovely to downright spectacular — qualify as art.

But are they bouquets? I’m going to say yes.

Bouquets to Art at the de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, March 19-23, 2013.

More flower stories and pictures at “Bouquets to Art at the de Young — Where Poppies Dance and Cactuses Are Petit Fours” and “In My Rain-Battered Garden — Nothing Is Forever, Not Even Those Poppies.”

Meanwhile, more bouquet pictures . . .