Pretty Posies
Did you know that flowers always, always make me smile and make me forget my worries . I come from a circle of flower loving peeps. Our clan loves all flowers. They can be roses, hydrangeas, asters, tulips. We will even take a good looking dandelion. Some bouquets last longer than others, and I just get so aggravated when some of the bouquet begins to fade and some does not. You know how that goes, and when that happens the bouquet is just plain awful. It seems that it would be easier if they would all fizzle out or give it their all. Best way to handle a bouquet that is half alive and partly dried up is to discard the old and trim down the surviving flowers and make mini arrangements. Somehow trimming those dwindling stems down and pulling off those old dead leaves seems to revive them and they get a bit of a second wind. Fortunately I inherited many vases, because my Mom and her Mom always, always had flower gardens and those magical gardens were ever so prolific. Blooms began in ear