Showing posts with label potted plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label potted plants. Show all posts

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Decorating Tip for Indoor Potted Plants








Indoor plants and flowers keep me happy until



Spring arrives with baskets of bouncy flowers.

These gorgeous blooms are keeping me company



right now.









The white amaryllis bulb I got for 3.00 after the New Year.


It now has two stalks of flowers blooming.


That makes eight flowers!


I thought it looked good next to the orchid.








My dilemna to solve was the visible pot


after dropping the potted plants into


the vintage white soup tureens.


I tried a white sheer thin fabric like


a scarf, but it ended up looking like a sock


that fell to the plants ankles.


I looked around me for something else.


Problem solving without spending money


is always pleasant, and needful.






A few old books I picked up at a used


book store for art projects caught my eye


across the room.


Three pages for each pot were torn out


of the book and used as liners.





I think they look clean lined and crisp!


(The ribbon hides the title of the book.)


The hardbound book cost me a dollar


and still more projects are left with it.






It almost reminds me of getting nuts or


treats in a paper bag from a street food



vendor or country fair.


Don't be surprised if all of my plants will be


wrapped in old book pages now!







The flower petals on both plants shimmer like satin.







I've keep the white color theme and there is


such a ethereal beauty and calm in this room.



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Friday, December 2, 2011

Indoor Moss Garden



I like living plants on my table. Maybe it's from bringing tender plants in for winter for years? Moss is so tiny and yet speaks of huge woodland floors and mountain rocks. Those things I can't bring inside so I bring in what represents it ... in miniature.

My little Christmas cactus needed dividing and I put one in a fruit or dessert pedestal goblet. A mound of potting soil on top (make it high like one scoop of ice cream) and the moss was cut in a circle, then cut to the center so I could wrap it around the plant like you would wrap a Christmas tree skirt around a tree.





Wouldn't these be cute on every placesetting? You can see the little fir tree needles lying in the moss. All these little details I think are charming. The dessert goblets are from a thrift shop. Cost was seventy-one cents each. I have found many uses for them.





Soft browns are pretty in the winter. The seed heads on the right are from a beautiful blue perennial aster. I want to keep them and germinate them. In mass they are a gorgeous sight blooming.





Has anyone else been out gathering like a bird and then rearranging it in your little cottage nest?

I am linking up with these friends:

Fridays Unfolded

Common Ground

Frugal Friday

The Picket Fence