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Tables, Guests and Flowers

How can floral arrangements, guests, tables and conversation all survive symbiotically at a dinner party? What can you do to create the prettiest table that is conducive to conversation and shows off your efforts in the floral department? Consider some of the following ideas. Keep the floral dining arrangement low on the table and compact so that it doesn’t block your guests’ view of each other or entangle any of the cutlery you went to all that trouble to either wash or polish. You know you have gone too far when guests have to part foliage to make a conversational … Continue reading →

Some Tricks of the Floral Arrangement Trade

There’s a knack to doing everything in life and that includes the pretty things, like creating your own flower arrangements. How can you best show off what you have and create harmony within the room? For one thing, get rid of your in-laws standing behind you, and for another consider the following suggestions. To establish the overall shape of the floral arrangement, start with whatever greenery you have. Place the largest flowers first and the fillers last. Crisscross the stems of greens to help give support to the flowers. Add aromatic herbs to help along those flowers with little scent. … Continue reading →

Expected and Unexpected Flower Containers

Flowers arrangements are like company in the sense that they can be expected or unexpected in a household. While it may seem obvious that flowers arranged in a beautiful vase will only accent their elegance, there are many objects your home that would make wonderful containers for flowers if you would only give them a chance to show you what they can do. Fine crystal and porcelain need to move over and allow the soup tureens, teapots and cordial glasses some significant flower time. Make sure you pick the right size container for your floral arrangement. For example, if you … Continue reading →

Easy Floral Arrangements For The Home

The best floral arrangements are ones that don’t look as if they were deliberately arranged. As odd as that may sound, a good rule of thumb is to remember that the less propping the better. The goal is to create a more or less English country garden look. How so, you might ask. Well read on for some tips. For one thing, use cluster flowers that have the consideration to practically arrange themselves. Lilacs, peonies, and hydrangeas, for example, are so full and dense that they don’t need any company. Good quality flowers that can stand on their own even … Continue reading →

Exotic Flowers For Your Home

What is the best way to arrange exotic flowers? Will you have to sell stock to afford them and keep them alive in your home? Read on for some answers and some questions too. The art of flower arranging is centuries old, dating back to the ancient Chinese and Egyptian kingdoms. Flowers are nature’s poetry, a language universal in meaning and beauty. Although an art of the most consummate skill, it is not a deep dark secret passed down from ancient hierophants that cannot be learned. Anyone who loves flowers and is willing to take the time and thought to … Continue reading →