Design & Decor - Flower Arranging

5-minute flowers: Pretty easy

By
Aldona Satterthwaite
Photography by
Roger Yip

Use casual kitchen containers to hold interesting arrangements


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prettyeasy-400x400.jpgI use my collection of old pottery jugs to whip up casual flower arrangements for the kitchen; the key is balancing colours and textures. For this one, I plunked in a store-bought bunch of smoky blue sea holly (lucky you if you can grow it—globe thistle would also work), then added a few lemon-lime hosta leaves, sprigs of miniature lady’s mantle and variegated euonymus from my garden. Finally, I tucked in burgundy-coloured ‘Diabolo’ ninebark twigs. Then it was back to the crossword.

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