Jan 8th, 2010 Posted in Flowers | no comment »
Fresh flowers can lend a lease of life to just about any place. Your home which is your special place deserves to be decorated with fresh flowers. Often we tend to use fresh slower arrangements only on the dining table. However, there are many other places in your home that can be decorated with fresh flowers.
The living room could do with some revving up with fresh flowers. Select a beautiful vase and put in fresh flowers which ever ones you like, it could be a bunch of the same flowers or a combination of different flowers and put it in the corner or any mantle in your living room. Another good idea could be to create a float with the flowers by placing them in a crystal bowl full of water. This could be further enhanced for some occasions by lighting floating candles in the bowl along with the flowers.
This bowl can be placed anywhere in your living room on the center table, or in your bed room in the corner and it will look simple and beautiful. The kitchen too deserves to be remembered. Placing a vase with flowers might not be exactly the best idea in for the kitchen. What you can do here is on a windowsill put potted plants like sun loving primroses and African violets etc. The best part about putting flowering plants in the kitchen is that you can use just about anything to serve as a pot. This could be old tea pots or clay pots etc.
Now in the dining room of course the dining table is one obvious place to put flowers. Instead of the simple arrangement in the center of the table, you can go in for a slightly more elaborate arrangement. This could be done by combining flowers of different varieties and also use some dried grass decoration along with them.
Fresh flowers are believed to be therapeutic and definitely are more attractive than artificial ones. Of course the artificial ones too are required in places where changing flowers regularly is not possible. However, this is not the case at home where we don’t need to make too efforts to find fresh flowers.
Another place to put flowers is your own bedroom. This is the sanctum of your home and indeed a very private space. This place deserves your favorite flower and that too generously. Of course what you can do is place them on the mantle, on the bed side table, on your reading desk if you have any in the room etc.
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Jan 8th, 2010 Posted in Flowers | no comment »
May be some of you have taken a walk in the woods and may have seen all the beautiful flowers that can be found right in nature. These flowers are wild, but are still beautiful. Did you think to yourself, I wonder what these would look like in my garden? If you have wondered this same thing, here are a few tips for you to make sure your flowers will survive.
Even though these flowers are strong enough to grow and thrive in the wild, does not mean they will not take special care. First thing you will need to do is make sure you are ready for your wild flowers once you get them home. Once you take the flowers out of their natural habitat you will want to get them back in the ground as soon as possible. Make sure you have you flowerbed at your home ready to go when you arrive.
You will want to make sure you have a good water drainage system in place. You may have to dig deep and place some rocks in the soil to ensure good drainage. You will want to make sure the soil is moist and ready to support its new life.
When you get your wild flowers make sure you get some roots and soil with it. The roots will help the flower stay alive and adapt to its new home. You will also want to make sure it has some of its natural soil from the woods to help it thrive. You can not expect the plant to thrive if you change everything about its surroundings.
When you are choosing your flowers you need to pay attention to the environment around them. You will want to take note of what other flowers are near this flower, if any. Maybe this flower grows best if it is only surrounded with its own. If this is the case you should do the same at your home. You want to make your flowers new home as much like its natural home as you possibly can.
You should also make sure the flower is done blooming. Plants tend to survive a transplant better if they are moved after they are done blooming. You may need to go out in search of your wild garden more than once, depending on what kind of flowers you like. You can choose flowers so that you have some in bloom from March until the first frost. This is a great way to make your garden look great for a long time. If this is what you would like to do you will definitely need to go wild flower hunting more than once. This will take some time and effort, but will be well worth it when you have a beautiful garden of wild flowers to admire.
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