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Blogger Canada on Sep 19, 2012

A dresser filled with... hydrangeas?!

I was about to throw one of my dressers onto the curb, when I noted a neighbour's hydrangea bush gone crazy. She didn't want the blooms, so I changed my mind about the dresser. I needed a new place for my flower loot! :)

The blog post has the full length shot... and it's a DOOZY.

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I just adore all the colours hydrangeas achieve in the fall.
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Fall hydrangeas find their way into a dresser, in a BIG way.
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My neighbour's bush was overflowing. It was time to harvest!
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Who knew I'd land a pink (and blue) license plate to match?
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The dresser was actually broken with a pillar still sticking up. Taking advantage of that, layers of galvanized buckets to hold more hydrangeas were stacked i...

To see more: http://www.funkyjunkinteriors.net/2012/09/dried-hydrangea-dresser-outdoors.html

12 Comments

Miriam I New York, NY

O.M.G. I love this!!

on Sep 19, 2012 · Like 0
Becky Blair, NE

Wow I've never seen such beautiful Hydrangeas. What kind are they Donna?

on Sep 19, 2012 · Like 0
FunkyJunk Interiors - Don... Canada

Hey Becky, I'm not sure, so I googled it and came up with the 'mophead' variety. They are super common in the lower mainland (BC Canada). http://www.hydrangeashydrangeas.com/mopheads...

on Sep 20, 2012 · Like 0
Geraldine Doudakian

YOU GUYS ARE GREAT,,,at , almost 70..I need all the help I can get,,,Spent..an UN Godly amount of time cutting out vines from my JUNGLE YARD...as people would know...I LIVE IN Florida..the home of the Vines....nothing survives the chock...they cloak..... everything... and not by chance...I will use some vines father back in the yard...The Grape Vine....Another job for me,,,,,how to make Wine....I want to be SELF SUFFICIENT...some day........I think I can do it .....if I live to ...»
90.....The last time I tried to put in a picture...it landed on main page...what can I expect....I'm almost ....70

on Sep 20, 2012 · Like 1
Geraldine Doudakian

AS FOR THE PICTURES....hopping fore some luck,,,

on Sep 20, 2012 · Like 0
Kathy Harrisburg, PA

I love your hydrangeas flower loot! pined them on my board!

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Ellen H Cullman, AL

Love it. I drool over hydrangeas anyway. And also over great photography. So right now I'm having to dry off my keyboard.

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Ellen H Cullman, AL

Also, Becky, I went to British Columbia years ago and when I showed my pictures to friends back home, they kept asking about my camera - I kept telling them that it had nothing to do with the camera, the flowers just really looked like that. My sister and I had never seen flowers with such intense, vibrant color - it just has to be gardening heaven. We visited Whistler and Vancouver and Victoria in September and saw the most gorgeous flowers everywhere - hanging pots, streetside gardens ...»
in the cities, not to mention Butchart Gardens. I have never seen anything so beautiful.

on Sep 20, 2012 · Like 0
Ellen H Cullman, AL

FunkyJunk Donna, I've been puttering around your blog this a.m. and I think I may be heading to Pulaski, TN next weekend for Bella Rustica. I'm less than 2 hours away and it sounds like fun. Maybe I'll see you there.

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Becky Blair, NE

Thank you for the link Donna. After a good nights sleep I'm thinking better. Was going on about four hours yesterday with a small nap after dinner so it never dawned on me that it could be the soil. After reading Ellen's comments about BC I'm thinking that's true. I know Hydrangeas tend to color according to their soil so my guess is these bushes have a PH balanced soil. Or something to do with the soil. I don't know enough about that to say for sure, but I do know there color has to do with the soil. Forgot all about that last night.

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Eclectically Vintage - Ke... New York, NY

Donna - let's get our dresser planters together for a playdate! My hydrangeas withered about a month ago - you're lucky to still have them blooming nicely!

on Sep 20, 2012 · Like 0
TRD Designs Ltd. Katonah, NY

love it. very creative

on Sep 21, 2012 · Like 0