Fresh flowers in my home make me happy.
Flowers in my home make me happier than they should. They have some unexplained power to calm and make any room glorious. They can make you forget about the unfinished projects and dishes in the sink, you get so caught up in their beauty.
I haven’t had many flowers in our home or yard since we’ve been renting. Back in the days of home owning, I worked in the yard almost as much as I worked in the house. Flower tending is so rewarding. But, I had to leave all my hostas, my long leaf pines, creeping fig, confederate jasmine, gardenia and caladium, not to mention the two hydrangea bushes at our home in Macon, GA when we moved eight years ago. My mom gave the hydrangeas to me when we had our youngest son. The night we moved away, I ruthlessly cut every single bloom, or branch that looked like it might possibly bloom and I took them with me. I’m sure the new owners loved me. Actually, I did it because I was pretty sure they wouldn’t even notice. And that thought was so much worse than the thought of them hating me.
Three years ago when we sold our house here in NC, I had the same sad feelings when I had to leave all of our plants. Leaving behind bulbs I had planted along with shrubs I had babied and watched grow was sad. I always felt like the new owners would never appreciate the yard. Sometimes I ask my sister to drive by and check on the yard. Plants are a commitment, and I get attached and don’t like leaving them.
And for some reason, I’ve found myself thinking that having a yard with flowers is reserved only for those lucky people who own their home. Funny how it’s worth it to me to paint walls in a rental, knowing I can enjoy seeing the walls every day but, it’s never seemed worth it to me to plant much of anything.
Until I started reading A Country Farmhouse. Trina doesn’t use a ton of tchotchkes, instead, she decorates with fresh flowers. She also has the luxury of living near a local flower cutting farm. I’ve decided owning a flower cutting farm is my dream job. I mean, besides my dream job of having a daily $1000 shopping spree at Home Goods and Target or my other dream job of decorating model homes with no budget limit and no one to tell me what to do or when to be done. Or my dream job of professional cupcake taster and professional bath taker. I’m really good at all that stuff.
So, last month I bought this hydrangea. The bush was $20 and had about 12 blooms on it. At my local market, the cut blooms are for sale for $5 each. So, according to my math skills, even if I just let the bush die after enjoying the blooms, I would have gotten a better deal. But, I decided to plant it. It was a weirdly hard choice because to me, once it’s in the ground, it’s no longer mine.
Then I found some Endless Summer Hydrangeas at Lowe’s for $12. Jodi told me that those bloom profusely and grow to be really big so, I bought two. Planting a few things in our yard doesn’t at all feel like the waste that I thought it would. I only regret that I didn’t plant my favorite plants the day we moved in. I could have stalked and molested those hydrangea all winter.
And I guess I could dig a few of my favorite things up before we move out one day but that seems wrong. I’ve already realized that it’s worth the little bit of money to experience both the enjoyment and feeling of home I have when I’m surrounded by something that brings me joy.
What about you? Is there something easily attainable that are not allowing yourself to enjoy?
Love hydrangeas. Love them. I had them in my bridal bouquet.
Well, this certainly hits too close to home! I just bought flowers today, to plant at our home, that has a for sale sign in the drive! A friend went with me and she did ask me WHY?!? was I buying flowers! HA
Hopefully, we will get a buyer soon and they will appreciate the extra bits of pretty in the ground! I will be putting some of the flowers in pots, so I can take those with me! :)
I REALLY wish I didn’t have to leave my four rose bushes behind…they were Mother’s Day presents a few years back!!!
Going to get some tissues now….
I’ve been known to get emotionally attached to houses for sale {as a potential buyer} based on the chandeliers, sink faucets and plants in the yard. Some of the most inexpenisve things can make people HAVE to have YOUR house!
Hi Andrea, don’t be sad. When I was growing up we purchased a home because they took such incredible care of the yard and planted stuff. Because we were buying we knew we wouldn’t have the funds or know how to landscape like they did and we LOVED those plants.
When I sold my house I FILLED it with potted flowers and such. We landscaped and people fought over my house. I took all the pots with me and left the scrubs behind. She has since killed the most expensive one but hey, I got more than my money’s worth :) But one pot that you are taking with you to your new house and call it HOPE :) (yes, I name all my plants…doesn’t everyone? Usuallly very inspirational….or very slutty girls names LOL).
Sorry, that was SHRUBS…not scrubs LOL
I have hydrangeas, too. Between those and my roses bushes, I think those plants would be hard to leave behind. I think it would be too noticeable, though, if I went around and cut every rose bloom off the rose bushes should we move. : ) I think it’s good you planted your hydrangea; and you can always plant some pots. You can always take comfort in the fact that you have left beauty behind to carry on.
i moved in with my boyfriend last april and he was doing some major yard revamp and chopped like all the bushes and tree limbs down to get them under control and start fresh. So needless to say, nothing really bloomed that spring, things just grew back. So this spring, im socking up the sun by our pool on the deck, and i see the plant by the steps has these small bright green bunches, and since I am no gardener (at all, and my mom is a florist which makes this even worse), I had no idea what they were. Then one day i was wlaking by and a bright blue sparkle caught my eye. The bloom at the most underneath part of the bush had shown its face and wouldnt you know it, they were hydrangeas! i took like a million pix. they are all alomst fully bloomed now and they are so perfect and wonderful, i totally understand why you bought some. :):):):):)
Hiiiiii, Nester. I too have your addiction to the flowers. I think they are good for one’s soul, having something living and lovely like that in the house. I used to work for a flower company, and every month or so there’d be a photo shoot, and at the end of the week we could all take home as many flowers as we could carry. I never got over the joy that brought me.
The thing I am denying myself is a little corner. A little space to think and meditate and be by myself. I know where I could create one, I just haven’t done it.
And by the way, you linked to me yesterday and I got FOUR TIMES the readers I usually do in 24 hours. You are one popular gal, Nest. You are like a little flower to all of us, blooming on our laptops.
I’m going to have a dream about working in that flower store tonight.
One time, years ago when i was in college, my now husband and I traveled to a tiny town and had dinner with some friends in the cutest old house in an old downtown neighborhood.
After dinner we took a walk and for some reason, the whole hood had decided to prune their climbing roses. All of these BEAUTIFUL roses were laying in the street at house after house. I was in heaven. I took armfulls home.
I’m the same way with my plants. I have TONS of different beautiful green plants in my house that are my “babies”, it just wouldn’t feel like home without them. When the red & pink peonies & the yellow daffodils & tulips bloom outside, they all get cut & get to come indoors to share the limelight w/ the other plants inside our home. :-) Something about flowers & beautiful green plants just makes me smile. :-)
Love hydrangeas. Both for their beauty and nostalgia. They grow wild alongside the roads on the island my family is from (Terceira, Azores). They remind me of my sweet grandma. You would love it. The bushes grow to be 6+ feet tall with blooms the size of bowling balls! Love. Love. Love.
I also want to be a professional anything that lives in the Azores.
Maybe even better than talking about home is talking about gardening for me! My current garden project is two 6×8 vegetable gardens. We just bought and have manage to add 3 trees and some bulbs so far to our yard. I have learned quickly that I don’t want to find myself saying ‘I wish I had planted this sooner so I could have enjoyed it or wished I painted sooner etc.’ Of course we have a budget and have to be realistic but if there’s something we know would help us enjoy our home we’ve learned to save up and make it happen as soon as we can.
I’m wanting a garden so, so bad! Raised beds? Is it too late? I have a feeling that will have to wait for next year.
We raised them this year. Last year we just made a 4×4 garden to see how we faired. I honestly don’t think its too late especially since we moved into our home about this time last year and put the garden in a week after. We planted from mostly plants but did lima beans from seeds and got two picks from them. NC has a wonderfully extended gardening season.
I love flowers too, but I don’t have a green thumb. Luckily my peony bushes don’t mind. I’ve also started to buy flowering plants and bushes instead of cut flowers just because they last longer.
Does anyone have a recommendation for no-fuss flowers that bloom (outside) all summer long? I can use all the help I can get! :o)
Peonies. My love. How have I missed thee, let me count the ways…
hydrangeas…all the way…make sure you get one of the new varieties of “rebloomers” that bloom on both old & new growth…that will help them bloom all summer…give them plenty of water and you’ll have a new love affair!
Sweet peas. Cut the flowers and they’ll grow right back (pretty much anyway!) so you can enjoy them for a while outside, bring some in and wait for the next bunch!
Oh and I hear you on leaving homes behind. We’re fixer uppers too and have moved a few times, I cry over leaving kitchen cabinets…
Now that I’ve had them at my last two houses, I am never again going to live without hydrangeas in my yard. Just not gonna go without them.
And then there are gardenias. Oh, gosh. That fragrance makes me swoon.
And one of my favorite, favorite indulgences is to buy Stargazer lilies. I’m not much of a pink girl, you know. . . there’s not much pink around here, and that’s okay with me. But the fragrance of a Stargazer–there’s just nothing like it.
I think I may share your addiction. Let’s join hands and say the Serenity Prayer.
I always stalk my friends around hydrangea “bloom” time. I have always wanted a bush, but never been patient enough to grow my own…until this year. I decided if I had planted one years ago, that I would now be enjoying all the blooms by now. Can you dig up hydrangea if you move?
Also, can you tell us where the horizontal striped curtains cam from?
Thanks!
Amy
yep – you can dig up and take a hydrangea with you – my aunt has done it several times!
Nester,
I think it is good that you are “moving” in to your home even though you don’t own it. You are going to live there anyway, know what I mean. I make all decorating decisions as if they are life or death…”If I die tomorow…will I wish I had done that?” Yes, I am a bit dramatic, but I can’t stand boring.
If your land lord has no problem and neither does your Husband..I say enjoy. You are probably “blowing” the same amount of cash that someone with a gourmet coffee habit does…and all they get is the runs LOL.
Your landlord is lucky to have such great renters that take care of his property in such a loving way.
Oh, I have btdt. My DH retired from the Army 2 yrs ago, but for the previous 13 yrs we were married, well, we were in the Army. When we left NC, we left behind an ENORMOUS English cottage-y garden…complete with 20 roses, lots of hydrangeas, bulbs, a DIY slate patio I put in myself before our nephew was married and had his reception in the backyard.
And I wasn’t able to dig up and bring ONE plant with me. A four day move across country in a minivan stuffed to the gills with little people and their “stuff”, it just wasn’t going to happen. I did consider the roof rack, but figured that the twin almost-one year olds would rather be inside the car, than on it (j/k). Left everything.
Here in OK, in our new home, we have a single, solitary, clump of iris. That my cows ate down this spring, and I got *1* bloom from before the blooming season came to a big halt. Joy. :-(
DH has promised to let me plant some more, once things calm down from the move-induced financial stressors (not to mention needing a new well pump, fixing the washing machine, and the septic system–all within the last 4 months). But oh, I can hardly wait.
So all that goes to say, yes. I, too, am a flower addict. I’d have climbing roses on the pipe fence, huge swathes of daylilies, iris, daffodils, foxgloves, delphiniums, hollyhocks, etc…Roses all around the house so that the southern winds would bring the beautiful smells to me on the breeze every single day.
Someday….
I just swooned over your last paragraph. My dream is to have not one blade of grass…just flower, flowers everywhere.
I know exactly what you are talking about. For years I wanted to have asparagus plants and peonies. I finally did plant them and each year I appreciate them more because I went without for so long. But for some reason I still don’t plant everything I want. For me now, it’s poppies. I love them and even have the seeds but haven’t planted them. It seems like too long to wait to get blooms. Silly, huh?
I’m a renter too and recently bought a gorgeous bright pink Hydrangea at Trader Joes. I put it in a pot on my front porch and it looks so cheery when it greets you walking up the driveway! I also planted 3 huge lavender plants along the front walk. I was really really lucky though and moved into a rental house that hadn’t been rented to anyone yet. The owners took impeccable care of their yard and it shows! Its BUSTING with flowers and gorgeous plants and greenery. And did I mention the pergola over the deck with the flowering clematis or the arbor over the side gate with purple wisteria wrapped around it? I know I’m bragging…sorry i’m a punk!
I just bought 5 hydrangeas off of the clearance rack at Lowe’s for $4.99 each today. Score!
I too found one of the hardest thing to leave behind when we moved was all of the flowers and shrubs that I had planted and tended too. Almost as hard as leaving 2 kids behind! But I still can see my kids, my plants are gone forever. I had contemplated taking my rose bush with me as it was a gift from a friend after my niece had died. It meant a lot to me. But I feared it would not survive the move so I left it. I did plant 2 hydrangeas here at the new house and they are now starting to bloom. They were supposed to be blue but are coming out pink. Oh well. Now I want more!
We have only been renters and I always plan, always. I do not invest much money wise, but I try to tend to the garden. Somebody will enjoy those flowers. I left behind a garden full of lavender, I am painfully starting to plant/divide lavender where I am now (with little success) but I do not mind. I recently planted an avocado: I have been told that it takes 8 years for them to produce fruit – thus *I* will definitively not be able to enjoy them. And I like to think that someone somewhere is not planting something that my family will enjoy. Me, on the other hand, rarely paint…I know I should…
Giovanna
I love your drapes! They’re so pretty and simple!
And hydrangeas are my favorite! I have a few plants I love like my children, haha.
Besides taking the time to smell and enjoy the flowers, it’s makes me smile to have little girl’s socks on the floor, teenage boy’s underwear on the bathroom floor, dirty dogs, trees that drop a gazillion leaves into my flower beds…..I’m so blessed to have the little girl, the teenage boy, dirty dogs, tress, flowers, and hubby who puts up with my crazy self. Repeat.
I completely identify . . . I’m currently a renter and plants are such a big commitment. I poured my heart and soul into our first home 6 years ago, bulbs, a border . . . and then the 2nd home five of those endless summer hydrangeas lining my walk. I drive by those homes now with wistfulness, still checking up on “my” plants. I tell myself it’s not worth it here, to save my money for when something is truly mine . . . That’s kind of sad.
I have one hydrangea that won’t bloom…it’s the only one I have..do I need more so they can cross-pollinate…and what kind of ground do they like….
grieving for hydrangeas…
glenda
older hydrangeas {and by old, I mean old varieties} only bloom on last year’s growth…so if the dead wood gets removed or if there’s a cold snap after they’ve started to bud out…you won’t get any blooms….SAD!
that’s why rebloomers {like Endless Summer & others} are fabulous – they bloom on old & new growth, which means *TONS* more blooms
Gardenia’s , love gardenia’s. And jasmine smells sooo good, and tea olive. Our neighborhood is full of all three and smells so good in the summer.
I agree. Something about cutting flowers from your yard and putting them in your house it’s almost like the feeling of giving birth. “Look at that… I made that.” “It’s she so precious.” It’s quite a thrill to know you raised it, and nourished it, and then enjoyed it. Plus, knowing that I didn’t spend $45 on cut flowers is a reward in itself!
My father law had tons of Day Lilies in his yard, when he passed away and my MIL put the house up for sale we went over and got bags and bags full of Day Lilies. Since then we have moved twice and put it in our contract that they Lilies go with us. We know we didn’t get all of them but we got most. My husband just couldn’t leave all those Lilies behind, so I understand!
We too are moving soon. It’s in the contract: we get to take divisions of perennials – and I have lots of perennials! Am busy digging right after I finish my break.
Oh I’m so glad you planted them! It is definitely worth the enjoyment you will get out of them. I love decorating with flowers, I cut almost anything and bring it indoors. This week I cut some geraniums!
You have inspired me to plant some roses, I always admire other peoples but have been worried that I don’t know how to grow them! I’ll just have to try. Thanks for the inspiration
Have a great day
Janice
I know I would have an incredibly hard time leaving all the perennials at our home. Some of them have sentimental value because they came from my dad’s house, or because they were a mother’s day present. I know I would spend a lot of time dividing perennials and potting them in order to bring them with me. It just would be a given. And, it would drive my husband nuts, but he knows that I have a terrible time leaving our garden behind.
My something easily attainable – We have lots and lots of roses and lilacs blooming right now that I should cut and bring inside. With three little ones still at home (two in school), I don’t always remember to take the time to bring the blooms indoors.
Nester, please get yourself a limelight hydrangea! They are so beautiful…and so ridiculously easy. I have some that are in their third summer…and they are almost 8 feet tall. I literally do nothing to them, aside from cutting all their blooms and eventually drying them. I had so many blooms last year that I couldn’t even cut them all and bring them in to dry. I’m talking at least a hundred blooms from two plants. This year I am making babies…which is SUPER easy with hydrangeas, too. I think hydrangeas are one of those plants that look incredible en masse, and then you get all those blooms to cut! If I could figure a way to send you a baby in the mail that wouldn’t die, I would do it in a heartbeat. GREAT hydrangea!
I want a limelight SO badly but I can’t find one!
How about taking cuttings (pull of some side shoots with the ‘heel’ still attached – the bit that sticks to the main shoot, or cut about 6 inches off the ends of a couple of shoots)
Removing all the leaves except the ones at/near the top.
Wrapping the cuttings (not including the leaves!) in newspaper (probably with a rubber band (elastic band… whatever they’re called))
Putting the cuttings in a sealed box with some water in. The water should be enough to keep the newspaper damp, which in turn may keep the cuttings alive.
Seal and post.
I don’t know what postage rules are about flowers in the States, so you might want to check that out.
I have NO idea whether this would work. It might fail dismally, in which case you’ve wasted the postage money… But if it succeeds, you’ll have a forever grateful friend.
Thinking about it, you might want to try taping the cuttings into the box so they don’t get bashed about too much in transit. Waterproof bandaids might work if nothing else does…
As for planting the cuttings out, just poke a hole in some compost with your finger. Dip the (bottom!) end of the cuttings into rooting hormone. put them into the hole in the compost, firm it up and keep it nicely watered.
Of course, you won’t have immense blooms straight away … but patience might just be worth it here!
I love flowers. My mom always had a few vases of cut flowers in every room growing up. When I was in college a portion of our yard was turned into a cutting garden. When I got married I always tried to have a least a small garden, even when we were renting. Flowers just make the world a happier place! :)
This is our first spring in a new house. I left behind at our old house a beautiful garden that we had spent 12 yrs cultivating. I miss my hosta, peonies, zinnias, and my Pee Gee hydrangea tree. My new house has tiny plants and a lot of empty mulch. I got a hydrangea plant for Mother’s Day and am looking forward to getting more flowers in the ground very soon.
I was just thinking today how much I love flowers in the house. Then, I scrimped and didn’t buy a stinkin’ $5.99 boquet. What was I thinking? I had a hydgrangea at my old house that was a plant from my grandmother’s funeral. I always wished I had dug it up and taken it with me. That and my Lace-leaf Japanese maple.
I’ve been following your blog for a short time (and really enjoying it!) but this is my first comment.
“Is there something easily attainable that are not allowing yourself to enjoy?”
Have to say, that really struck a chord with me, not because I’m denying myself something but because it’s a question with so many levels of possible answers. Very profound. Bet you didn’t plan that, didja!? ;-)
Me too! I bought some cut peonies today for $3.50 and it made my day. Planting your flowers will be worth it, even if you have to leave them when you move. Hooray!
I am soooo proud of you for letting go and going with your heart. It’s a joy to see you coming out of your shell and being happy with where you are. You are truly a blessing to those of us who do not have a deed or an acre to call our own. Thank you.
I have been LUSTING over hydrangeas in other people’s yards…why oh why have I not gotten around to planting a couple?! Because I feel like if I’m going to bother with that, I need to rip out this flower bed, reshape the other, etc., etc. Guess I need to take the ‘who cares if its perfect’ attitude outside! By golly I’m going tomorrow to get a couple of those beauties and just stick ‘em in the dirt! Thanks Nester! Oh, by the way…where or where did you get the wide striped fabric used for those window panels…I’ve been looking for something almost exactly like that forever.
Hey Nester,
I am a faithful reader. For about 6 years, my friend and I had a floral business called “Simply Elegant”. We did mostly weddings and parties. We didn’t have a store front and only did “fresh” flowers. It was better than Christmas each time our wholesaler delivered our flowers! In response to clients’ who questioned our policy of using only fresh flowers, “some things are only for the moment”. This thought came to me today as I read your post.
I plan to do a series of posts about Simply Elegant. I’m in the process of scanning lots of photos. It was a fun time in my life.
I must take your love of decorating with fresh flowers to another level for you….I would suggest that you one might even decorate with other plant life (some might call these weeds, vegetables or sticks). I have a lovely patch of weeds that have not been removed along my driveway and now they are blooming sweet little yellow flowers! They will be coming into the house in a pretty little vase TODAY! I also have some stray wheat growing on my property that is the most brilliant shade of green right now….again….coming into the house in a fancy vase. So you see….I don’t live next to a flower farm either…but I do bring “flowers” into the house just the same!!
Hi….love the site…and LOVE curtains….Do you know where you bought those or did you have them made? Thanks!
bought them? had them made?
Welcome to the Nest where I make all my curtains myself. In 5 minutes! They are called window Mistreatments and I’ll have an ebook soon all about them!
I love hydrangeas too, Nester. :) I say “good for you” for planting something that will bring you happiness in your home while you’re there. :)
It’s funny because we are sort of in the opposite situation. This is our first home that we’ve owned, and we’re almost at our record for staying anywhere. It has been about 2 1/2 years, and we’re feeling the itch. So now I’m getting obsessed with making this place feel like home. I’m doing things I’ve never been able to do in a rental–like plant flowers. I found 2 small Endless Summer hydrangeas for a steal the other day, and now I’m trying to decide where they should go. Most of my effort has gone into a little vegetable garden this year, but I’m starting a notebook of landscaping ideas to work on over the winter so I’ll be prepared next year. Now I just have to figure out where to put the hydrangeas!
I have hostas and lilies from my grandma’s garden and I’ve already told my husband that if we ever move I am going to dig up at least some of them. I couldn’t imagine leaving my grandma’s flowers behind.
I feel your pain regarding the plants left behind at your old house. When we sold our house 2 years ago, I left behind many, many plants — including a hydrangea my mother gave me our first Easter there; it was 10 times the size it had been, and bloomed wonderfully. When my Mom died early this year, I doubly regretted not digging up that bush and bringing it to our new house. I regret it even more, because the new owners have pulled out nearly every planting — hosta, lilies, black eyed susans, daylilies, and on and on . .. “too much trouble,” they said.
If I had only known. Moral of the story: from now on if I sell a house, I will ask the buyers if they want the plants before I abandon them!
And good for you for planting hydrangea in your rental yard. You CAN take it with you when you leave!
Cass
PS My Grandmother used to skip lunch on shopping trips to NYC, in order to afford to bring home an armful of beautiful blooms to her house.
hello nester. love having fresh flowers around me as well but we spent 20 years in the military and it looks like we will still be moving around in our new non military life as well. so i’m starting to buy really good fake flowers. they don’t have the scent (hello bath body works candles) but at least i can take them with me when we move.
Hydrangeas are my weakness. Utter and complete weakness. I have five planted in the front of my house.I am praying thatthis year is their big blooming year because we know we will be leaving this house in a year or just over that. I often want to take my flowers with me. I do also LOVE roses, pink roses… very pale pink ones.
My Grandmother had the most beautiful pale pink roses and when she died they were almost 30 years old. They were as tall and wide as the side of her one car garage. We had to sell her home soon after her death and they were in full bloom. Those roses welcomed me to my bridal shower that she planned, they greeted me the morning of my wedding (June), they were the reason I chose pale pink for my bridesmaids dresses, they welcomed my first son into our home… they were always part of our life.
After we sold her home I would drive by to look at the roses, not the house but the roses. About a year after her death I had moved away, here to NC and when I went home later that summer I went by her house as soon as we got there. The owner had got rid of the entire garden of roses. I wept. I was angry. Why didn’t they just ask us to remove them… why didn’t I take a cutting? I no longer drive by Grandma’s old house it isn’t hers. It isn’t the place I have beautiful memories of a beautiful woman cutting her roses to share with everyone she knew and even strangers.
I now plant roses as soon as we move in to a house but I have yet to find the same color rose that she had! If we ever get my dream yard.. large.. I will try my hardest to grown one as big as Grandmother did.
Tears.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who is sentimental about the plants. Yes, a cutting. Why don’t we ever think of that? One day, you will come across the same breed of roses and it will be a great day.
BTW I forgot to mention that the day after your gathering my husband ran some errands with my son. When they came back my sweet seven year old knocked on the door and had this goofy, giddy grin on his face. Oh how just his face melted my heart, then he pulle dhis arm around from hidin git behind his back and had a dozen tulips in has chubby hand! He was so proud of himslef and I teared up. He threw his arms around me adn told me that he relaly wnated to get me flowers so he asked his Daddy if he could. My husband said he pickd them all on his own!!!! Some girl is going to be lucky one day IF I let him out of my grip.
I totally thought of you and your box of flowers showing up before the gathering… I love what you said about it and was in such agreement. FLowers bring great joy into the home! Especially when from little hands.
I haven’t blogged in months, but my comment was soooo long that I decided it was time…my blog thanks you.
http://our6.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/if-flowers-were-friends-would-we-mourn-their-loss/
What a generous thing to do. Both for yourself and the future lovers of your house.
I have tons of flowers in my yard, but rarely bring any in the house. Saw a couple of cute vases a few weeks ago and seriously considering ordering so I can enjoy in the house.
glass jars are also such a beautiful accompaniment to flowers! right now on my bar, I have a small carafe, a stage 3 baby food jar, a salsa jar, 2 votive holders & an old school soda bottle all with hydrangeas & peonies in them…and I love them every bit as much as my fancier vases!
Hi! I am new to all of this blog stuff! I visit almost everyday and always enjoy your blog! So great! Can you tell us where you got your stripe curtains! Love them! I also love all the newly decorated touches…you have been hard at work!
You make me laugh so hard. I love this line “I could have stalked and molested those hydrangea all winter.” Classic.