DIY ~ April Showers Gathering Vase Bouquet
by
Barb Rosen
(IC: blogger)
$15
45 Minutes
Easy
Imagine a lovely cutting garden full of color and scent and then put it into a vase, that's what I did! This more traditional bouquet style is designed by placing the tallest flowers in first (larkspur), then adding and layering by height : stock, alstroemeria, daisy mums, waxflowers,tulips, ranunculus, with sweet peas and ferns added to "frame" the bouquet. Tiny paper umbrellas give homage to the "April Showers" theme. Anyone can do this, it's as if you went out to the cutting garden and snipped off your favorites.
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Published April 25th, 2013 4:40 PM
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Carey on Sep 07, 2016When I was a little girl, my Mom had a row of sweet peas planted beside our house, and I was allowed to pick as many as I wanted. My favorite pastime was picking flowers to take to my Mommy and the neighbor ladies! Esp. on May day when we could make little paper baskets, fill them with flowers, and hang them on the neighbors doors, ring the bell and run hide to watch them find their flowers! What special memories the still have for me. A gift from my Mom!
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Barb Rosen on Sep 07, 2016Just like you, I grew up with the May Day tradition! I wish we could bring it back!
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Carey on Sep 09, 2016Maybe it would be something that we could arrange to share with our Grandchildren. Or in my case now, Great Grandchild. I think that when I get down close to him, I will begin sharing this one with him! it is worth passing on and giving those same sweet memories to the next generation!
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Anne Brown on May 10, 2019
There was a little boy in our neighborhood that was a bit of a problem child. One year on May day the doorbell rant and when I opened there was home made basket with flowers in it. I was delighted. Later the little boys mother came over and told me that her son had made the basket in school and filled it with his mom’s flowers and left it on my door. She said he told her that he wanted to leave it for me because I was the only mother on the neighborhood that was nice to him.
moral.... you never know what nice words to a child can do for them or how good a surprise of beautiful flowers can make someone’s day 🙂 💐
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Barb Rosen on May 28, 2019
Absolutely! What a wonderful story, Anne!
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I have never had luck with these?? How is best way to grow Ranunculus? I also need to transplant poppy is that hard??? Ty!