WFMW - summer flowers!

You know those flowers that are just everywhere in your region?  For me, it is wild roses - and they get to be a pain!  But aren’t they gorgeous?

For my pre-teen’s birthday, we displayed difference roses (that I was going to throw away) in different containers as a centerpiece.  Here is a pic of them up on the window sill after the party.

Here’s a couple tricks I use to decorate the table with flowers (even wild flowers or weeds can look pretty!):

Cluster of Vases

• any sort of flower will do - even ones pretty close to retirement.
• any clear container would work too - tupperware, drinking glasses, vases, shot glasses for small flowers, etc.
• select one flower for each container.  Here I also had a large vase that I could fill with roses too (how lucky am I?).
• trim the stem on the flower so that the flower will float on top of the water - the stem in most cases can be cut right off.
• place the containers randomly in the middle of the table, by random I do not mean symmetrical!
• and ta da!  Isn’t it purddy?

Floating Candles & Flowers

• one big large casserole dish or container that will hold water (at different times I’ve used a punch bowl, or a 9×13 baking pan.)
• Fill to nearly the top with water, so floaty things pop up above the rim of the container.
• fill with random sizes & colors of flowers, and 3 tea lights (any tea light candle will float if you remove it from its container!)
• You can also fill with sand, leaves, and berries.  Some will float, some will decorate the bottom of the container.
• Pretty!

And for Christmas, I also cut tips off the christmas tree to float in the containers, with bright red cranberries (which also float).