Do you take the time to bring your flowers from your garden indoors to enjoy? The above arrangement was made with hosta leaves, sweet peas, lilies, Queen Anne’s Lace, blue anise and an orange gerbera daisy. joenesgarden.com
You can make simple and sweet arrangements:
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When time is limited, one of the easiest summer table arrangements can be created by five hosta leaves and three large hydrangea blossoms as in the photo here. Use a short vase. Cut the hosta stems so the base of the leaves sit on the rim of the vase. Place the hostas in the vase so they edge the entire rim – the stems will criss-cross in the vase. Cut the hydrangea stems so the lower portion of the blossoms will rest on the hosta leaves. Ten minutes, tops, gives you a simple, beautiful, and dramatic display.*
Another good tip is that you can also create simple, beautiful flower arrangements with fresh cut flowers from a local farm stand or flower store. Simply use greens cut from your own bushes and perennials as your supporting cast.
Do you cut flowers out of your garden and bring indoors? Writing this reminds me of how easy it is to do and how much I love walking into a room with fresh flowers! Comments?
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Yes they do make the home feel complete. I always smile when I see them!
Love this post Kelly.I didn’t know about the warm water, I always used cold..thanks for cluing
me in!
You are so lucky to have so many flowers! I love the idea of the lillys of the valley in small medicine battles. So cute!
Oh yes! I do cut flowers from my garden. And this year because we’ve had so much moisture, we have prolific blooms. When our son and his family came in early June the Spring bloomers were just getting going (late spring). I had fresh floral arrangements in every room to greet them. I have herbs that’ve grown exceptionally tall too. They make wonderful fillers for cut arrangements as well as pretty “greens only” arrangements. I loved picking the tiny Lily of the Valley blooms. They have such wonderful room-filling fragrance,they’re excellent in tiny little brown glass medicine bottles I’ve saved,and they look nice with my neutral colored indoor decorating scheme.