make flower arrangements with flowers from the garden
by kbean
Gardening Journey Overview
Follow this step-by-step gardening journey to see real progress updates, challenges overcome, and practical experience.
Progress Updates (8 total)
Update #1: make flower arrangements with flowers from the garden
I have so many annual and perennial flowers in my garden at home and at work. I want to put them to good use instead of letting them go by and waiting until next summer for them to come back. Imagine if you could make your own flower arrangements for friends and special occasions- you would save money and your gesture would be more meaningful being homemade
Challenges Overcome: I have just been cutting flowers and putting them in a vase without really thinking. I need to learn colors, flow, fill and height!
Update #2: picked roses from the garden today
10% completei don’t love the colors together but they smelled so good i couldn’t resist!
Update #3: made another arrangement with flowers from the garden
20% completemore colors that go together this time!
Update #4: one of my customers brought in gladiolas for me!
30% completeworking with height
Update #5: i added some taller green pieces to offset the colors and give it some height.
40% completei added something to break up the ‘all flowers’ theme. the purple catmint in the back is a favorite among the pollinators- i’ve seen hummingbirds, bumblebees and butterflies land on it!
Update #6: made a bouquet from the garden
65% completeI chose to use flowers that were all the same color scheme and even found a vase that kind of went
Challenges Overcome: I realized that the matchy matchy looked really nice. I untried to avoid that but it actually makes the bouquet look a lot more put together
Looking Back: like things go with like things
Update #7: I bought these flowers from the farmers market
80% completeSo I had never seen these flowers before and couldn’t pass up an opportunity to make an arrangement with them.
Challenges Overcome: Learning about different flowers
Update #8: late summer hydrangeas
100% completeThese limelight hydrangeas and butterfly bush were grown in my sisters garden- what are sisters for?!
Challenges Overcome: finding the colors that went together best
Obstacles Faced: waiting for more flowers to bloom and the unpredictable NH weather
Looking Back: patience goes a long way. i also planted more flower at the beginning of fall for more variety next year