Petal Play

This morning, very early (well, 7:30 which is early for me in the summertime!) I went out into the garden to pick a few little flowers. Right now, it seems all the Lavender, Purple and Blue flowers are blooming all at once. I get a charge from flowers, I never grow tired of them. And I'm always looking for new and different ways to display them. Just a few flowers is enough to liven up your whole home, and make it smile.

Part of a collection of Trophy Urn Blanks (meant to be overplated with Copper or Silver) I bought long ago, these two make the perfect container for my mini arrangements. I put an empty plastic yoghurt cup in the larger one, to hold the water, as that one doesn't hold water very well. But I love how the dull Grey looks with the Lavenders, Purples and Pinks, don't you?

It doesn't have to be a big display, even this tiny little urn, filled with a small Hydrangea bloom, will be perfect next to your bed, or in your bathroom to greet you at the beginning of the day! I like to have a tiny bouquet like this at the sink in the kitchen, too. Makes dishes much more pleasant to do.

Make sure you change the water every day for these petit bouquets. Cut the stems at an angle with a sharp knife, and plunge in the water right away. This way your bouquet will last as long as it possibly can in the summer heat! Shown above: Hydrangeas, a Stainless Steel Rose, Lavenders, Eden Rose, one twining Morning Glory, and a few white Trumpet Vine Flowers (which won't last long at all but I love them!)

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking;

but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

Vita Sackville-West