Year of Flowers: 1
After a crazy week full of deadlines, today is feeling more relaxed. I ran across the street this morning early and picked out my first birthday flowers (Thank you, Tim). My mother in law gave me “The Art of Floral Arranging” by Elieen Johnson for Christmas, which I’d asked for since I’ve always felt like I was missing something critical about arranging flowers. One helpful tip from Johson’s book is to “tie” the arrangement with clear hair elastics (from Goody’s, available at any CVS/Duane Reade/drugstore).
It holds the arrangement together in a nice way, right?
UPDATE: I spent the morning catching up on magazine reading (yum) and was shocked to learn via Martha Stewart Living that if you mix daffodils in with other cut flowers, the sap of the daffodils will “poison” the other flowers and cause them to wilt. Given that I just made a bouquet with lots of daffodils, I double timed it across the room and pulled them out. Filed in: flower facts.
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February 29th, 2008 14:28
well, you can do no wrong with the colors of those flowers! They’re beautiful!!!
February 29th, 2008 14:37
Oh I love this tip! Keep sharing great secrets as you come across them. I love this arrangement. What a great gift?!
February 29th, 2008 15:43
Those are just lovely, my love. See, I told you turning another year older wouldn’t be so bad…..
T
February 29th, 2008 17:47
These flowers are so amazing and you have done a great job of arranging them.
February 29th, 2008 20:01
Hmmm…clear elastics. I’m going to get some of those. Great Tip! Thanks.
March 2nd, 2008 16:55
The flowers are gorgeous. Great present and great arrangement. Thanks for the elastic tip!
March 2nd, 2008 23:36
Thanks ladies! I’m thinking about doing a whole week of flower related posts. xo Abbey
March 3rd, 2008 11:36
There’s a solution to your daffodil problem. Put the daffodils in a vase/water for an hour or two by themselves. After that, it is fine to combine them.
Here’s a link to an article I wrote some time ago about using bulbs as cut flowers. http://www.beginner-gardening.com/cutflowers.html
June 21st, 2008 21:51
This is the coolest thing I’ve heard in a while..I ‘m definitely linking to you..hope you don’t mind. The flowers are so beautiful, you have great taste . What a thoughtful gift!