Tuesday Tips & Tricks

Use Bubble Wrap "skirts" to make flowers float.

Tuesday Tips & Tricks

Let your tulip and daffodil stems turn yellow before cutting off the leaves. If you are getting lots of foliage and not very many flowers you should dig up the bulbs and divide them.

No Teacher Left Standing

I got surprise flowers, at school, last week from my hubby - 

just for making it through the day...

Dandelion Crowns

Making a dandelion crown is very easy, if you know how to braid.

Just take three dandelions with long stems and start braiding. Cross the left outer stem over the middle one, then cross the right outer stem over the middle one and so on.

Add in another dandelion to each of the stems when crossing them, so the flower comes next to the previous one on the crown and you have two stems instead of one to braid.

Continue crossing the stems and you'll have 3 and even 4 stalks in one in your braid.

When the first are getting short, the others will be long enough for crossing.

Make the crown as large as you want.

Tie the stalks to the other end, right after the first 3 flowers which started the crown.

You can hide the remaining stems between the flowers in the crown, so they can't be seen.

You can even make a dandelion bracelet if you want.

And there you have it!!

I think you could do the same with any flowers that have pliable stems, but don't tell you kids that or you won't have any flowers left in your garden...

Found at Dave's Garden

How Does YOUR Garden Grow?

This beautiful "carpet" is created every year in The Grand Place in Brussels. It is made completely of fresh flowers, especially begonias.

Obviously, it would be better to see it from the 4th for 5th floor than ground level...