Flower Family

 

My two assistant gardeners have caught the flower arranging bug.

They can pick all the dandelions and wild flowers they want.

Also, they have free reign to pick any that are done and need to be deadheaded.

(They love that chore!)

Even so, they often beg to be allowed to pick the living flowers from my flowerbeds.

Thanks to our experience with Erin's Garden Appreciation Society last year, I have been much more willing to let them.

 

I'm a complete amateur myself, but we have talked about trying to get as long a stem as possible, to make it easier to arrange them in a vase. Also, how it's better to snip one here and there, rather than leave a big hole in the middle of a section.

Mostly, though, we have had fun choosing and arranging what we bring in.

Giving the bouquets to friends makes it even better.

 

This time my daughter realized we had little, medium, and big vases all being used.

A flower family!

 

 

 

Assistant flower pickers and garden helpers.

The biggest vase on the left ("Flower Daddy") had the remnants of my purchased Mother's Day bouquet in it. The rest of the Family was all home grown.

 

It was a bit painful at first, to allow my precious flowers to be cut.

But the sparkle in those eyes and their eagerness to be involved with the arrangements has been so worth it.

I am planning to add a section of cutting flowers to my vegetable garden this year--a small patch, probably 4x4. Just because it is so much fun to say "yes!" and see what they come up with.