For the pleasure of puttering bouquets, any little alcove with a sink could turn out to be the happiest space in your house.
If you've ever trailed apple blossoms across the carpet as you hunted up the right vase, you might well have envied those grand Victorians who devoted one room exclusively to the arranging of flowers. Here, everything was at hand to shape beautiful bouquets - scissors, moss, pebbles, vases.
I like keeping all my flowering arrangement tools in one place and dedicated a cupboard with glass doors to this task, so that I can see everything at a glance. Available vases, secateurs, scissors, string, oasis, baskets to put the flowers into while cutting them in the garden, plastic liners, vase flower food, and all the necessary display items like pebbles, marbles, etc.
I like keeping all my flowering arrangement tools in one place and dedicated a cupboard with glass doors to this task, so that I can see everything at a glance. Available vases, secateurs, scissors, string, oasis, baskets to put the flowers into while cutting them in the garden, plastic liners, vase flower food, and all the necessary display items like pebbles, marbles, etc.
Today, one might dedicate a pantry, wet bar, half bath, or even a plumbed shed to the same creative purpose. Imagine all your favourite containers lined up on open shelves, and drawers for tools, foam and wire. Efficiency, after all, is the mother of the muse.
Call it your flower nook and paint the walls apple green or sunshine yellow. An old ladder or laundry drying rack makes a great space for hanging dried bouquets of lavender, hydrangeas or rosemary. Then let the snippets fly.
(All the above pics scanned from a 1970's "Victoria" magazine)
Now, what to put with these tulips? Ivy, or Ferns?
Image from Pinterest
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