Floral Media - Floral Spring Centrepiece by Sarah Raven

Here is another brilliant video by Sarah Raven where she is making a spring centerpiece using a grid to help the flowers stay in position in the bowl. It will work for a big dining table, coffee table or hall table. She gives very good instruction on how to do it in the video - so I feel there is no need for me to repeat by writing it all down in the blog post. 

I love sharing these videos in case you have not seen them before - so watch the video and try to make your own! 

Here is a little bit about Sarah in case you have missed my previous posts with her videos:

Sarah Raven is well known in the UK for presenting gardening programs on television, writing lots of books about gardening and plants, teaching floral workshops and flower arranging courses, giving talks and demonstrations and also for being an enormously successful business women running a plant, seed and gardening internet business.

Have a Great Floral Day and enjoy your flower arranging!

I will be back later in the week with more floral delights from Spring and Summer.

Ingrid

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FLOWERS by ingrid & titti - Spring on Your Doorstep

What is more welcoming than a few pots of colourful flowers by your front door when you come home?

Stone or terracotta pots, some lined wooden boxes or baskets, vintage metal urns or containers like old weathered buckets are all perfect to plant up and place just outside your door.

I planted up a few containers this spring -  I used a mixed collection of terracotta pots, two vintage metal urns, a cast concrete pot and an old zinc bucket.

Even a group of smaller containers on an outside windowsill - look great and will cheer you up after a long day away from home.

If vintage and recycled old stuff is not your thing - there are plenty of more contemporary and stylish containers that, when filled with flowers will do exactly the same job as anything old.

Watering and feeding the pots and containers will be essential  you will have to make sure that any containers you use have some drainage - so you might have to drill some holes. 

If your front door is in the shade the flowering plants might not last as long or flower as much as if they were placed in the sun - most plants need at least a few hours of sun every day. 

On the other hand if the pots are placed in the sun they will have to be watered more frequently. 

It's also a good idea to deadhead all the plants - picking off any spent flowers will encourage the plant to produce more flowers.

The flowers that I have used are a pansy called Viola 'Raspberry', a light blue Muscari also called grape hyacinths, a bright pink Bellis and some light pink Marguerite daisies.   

Here is a link to all the other FLOWERS - that Titti and I have done.

Titti over on HWIT BLOGG is also featuring beautiful spring flowers for your doorstep - so go over to her blog and have a look at what she has done.

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Have a Wonderful Day Floral!

See you later in the week!

xoxo Ingrid

Floral Media # 13 Thinking of Spring Flowers!

Charlotte Andersson is a fellow Swede who writes the blog Trädgårdsflow. I've followed her amazing gardening blog for years and since April 2013 is the gardening editor of the Swedish magazine Lantliv. She has also opened a web shop, Garden Flow Shop, where she sells stylish things for the garden. 

Erin Benzakein from Floret Flower Farm has put together a blog post called My Favourite Sweet Peas - where she tells us how she picks out her special sweet peas to grow on their flower farm in Skagit Valley in Washington. 

Here is a pretty image of spring tulips by Linda Lomelino - the Swedish cake lady - I know I've featured her many times - but I just can't resist her photography and her cakes....!



A few potted spring flowers by Minna Mercke Schmidt from Blomsterverkstad  - another favourite Swede of mine! Minna is not only an amazing photographer but also a general styling guru for anybody who likes working with flowers.



Erin Boyle from Gardenista shows you a quick and easy way to disguise a plastic pot.  Using a simple brown paper bag and ribbon it becomes a chic and stylish gift to give away this spring.



If you are ever in Copenhagen in Denmark - go and visit Martin Reinicke and his shop Blomsterskuret in the Vesterbro district. Martin is a florist and a potter and his charming shop has beautifully arranged flowers in baskets outside the shop. Featured on Gardenista by Alexa Hotz - who asks the question - World's Most Beautiful Flower Shop?

This last link is for all you gardeners out there - a quiz - The Daily Telegraph has put together 80 questions to test your general knowledge about gardening. Mind you it's quite challenging! Good luck - all the answers are at the end - so don't cheat.......! Well, whatever way you do it - you learn a lot - I certainly did!  

[Photography: 1. © Charlotte Andersson, 2. © Erin Benzakein, 3. © Linda Lomelino, 4. © Minna Mercke Schmidt, 5. © Erin Boyle, 6. © Alexa Hotz

Have a Wonderful Floral Day!

See you soon again.

xoxo Ingrid