Buying flowers can be a daunting task, especially when faced with a garden filled with fresh blooms. What kind of flowers to buy? How much blooms are needed? How the hell does one arrange them in a flower vase? What kind of flower vase???
When it comes to arranging flowers and home decorating, I believed that you don’t have to be an expert to create a beautiful and happy home. Buy what you like… In the end it will all work beautifully.
I love decorating “Maison Epperson” with fresh flowers. Here are some of my favorite floral arrangements I do at home:
I find anthuriums or “Flamingo Flowers” sexy and elegant.
Using a large column vase, I basically just wacked the flowers and the leaves that the flower vendor arranged … Et viola!
Anthuriums come in different colors. I prefer the deep red variety — they look more elegant than the pink ones.
There is something phallic about the shape, noh? Or is it just me? Haha!
These orange blooms (God! Help me! What kind of flower is this???) are beautiful! The stems remind me of long-legged models! Haha!
A tall vase is necessary for long-stemmed fresh flowers. This kind of floral arrangement gives scale to the room/coffee table.
“Orange is the most controversial of colours. Many consider it to be the gauche legacy of the freewheeling ’70s. But what an unfair reputation that decade has! To me, the ’70s were when the counterculture became the popular culture — and when adults finally felt liberated to embrace immaturity. You could be young again without having to be innocent! Orange shouted out to the world that you didn’t take things too seriously: that you weren’t old and crusty, that you were not your parents, and that you didn’t have a living room full of plastic-covered furniture. Rather, your furniture was made of plastic — and it was probably designed by Verner Panton.
Diss orange at your own expense. Orange says, “I’m fun!” Use it to draw out your inner child: grab a Fanta and an orange Tootsie Pop and feel your Happy Chic life expand.” ~Jonathan Adler on Happy Chic Colors
What kind of flower are you? Iris?
Monochromatic hues are chic.
Malaysian Mumps are affordable and beautiful flowers.
I should have cut the stems two more inches… Keribels!
All green is in!
Single variety flowers are easy to arrange.
More Malaysian Mumps for Aryanna’s room
Minimum effort, maximum impact!
A few months ago, the folks at Samsung gifted me a fruit arrangement that came in a pink ceramic pitcher. I kept it and reused it as a vase for my daughter’s room.
Pink much?
Small but terrific!
I prefer miniature floral arrangements for the dining table. They allow the guests to view and converse with each other across the table.
These multicolored Malaysian Mumps are almost two weeks old so some of them are ready to retire. LOL
Tip: Miniature flower arrangements are appropriate for the office. Brighten your desk/cubicle with a bunch of fresh cut flowers and arrange them in a teacup, coffee mug or an empty jar.
Lanta na. Oh well, you get the picture.
I wish I had a backyard so I could plant flowers, vegetables, and grow an herb garden… Maybe someday. For now, I buy my favorite flowers at the grocery and at Saturday Salcedo Market because of convenience plus, the florists/sales clerks give me tips on how to make them last. I don’t know much about what kind of flower arrangement goes with what vase but I do know that fresh flowers add beauty to the home.
Tip: According to one of the florists in the grocery, for fresh cut flowers to stay fresh longer, add a 1/4 tsp. of bleach per 1 liter of water to keep the water from getting cloudy and inhibit the growth of bacteria.
Shoppingera, what are your favorite fresh flowers?