Posies

Very pretty, well done... :)

I love them all, they are so pretty.

So cheerful.

they are very pretty ~ will brighten up any window/table/room/person!!

I like them as well,it would never occur to me to pick a piece off the fuschia but seeing yours it looks very pretty.

you must have a lot of things out in your garden marshmallow!!

I have got a lot of things, Sticki and keep buying more!
I've never picked fuchsia before either, Lincslass but I thought i'd give it a try.
Thank you Franny, Stroller and Grannyb.

Very very pretty all of them:)

... and another very pretty!

My mum showed me how to do this with small flowers in a small sherry schooner. If you have small nodding flowers like snowdrops she used to stand the glass on a mirror. the insides then are relected and you get to see the insides too.

lovely posies. :o)

And yet another very, very, very pretty! Lol! So sweet!

very clever seaburngirl ~ i like that idea ~ would work very well for fuchsias!

The mirror idea is very clever. I will look out for one and try it. Hellebores and campanulas...
Thank you everyone.

I think little arrangements often beat the big ones, and you can usually find something nearly all the year round as evergreens can compensate for the fewer flowers. eg a few sprigs of juniper with some winter jasmine? So now you've got the bit between your teeth, don't stop when the summer flowers disappear.

No that's a good idea. Sometimes bare twigs are attractive or in late winter a twig with tiny leaf buds.

i like to collect interesting grasses when i go out walking, they always look interesting and last well too.

They're very colourful aren't they :o) Very pretty, and you could put one in every room in the house :o)

I have got them in most rooms but I could fit in a few more! As i walk round the garden now I see more things which would work in little posies. Now I'm looking at grasses too ST. I'll It's a different skill to large arrangements. The ones I saw had lots of colours in together so I tried not to be too tasteful as normally I like things to match.

i just like the movement and shape of the grasses ~ i dont have enough to pick myself so i get them from the paths and fields nearby.

Very pretty. :0)

Seed heads are useful too, try love in a mist or astilbe.

Beautiful ... it is surprising just what you can cut from the garden to make a little Posy ... I sometimes add tiny pieces of Pittosporum for the foliage and Gypsophilla . . . . .

The leaves of vinca minor are good fillers for winter arrangements too - I'd forgotten them.

Yes I have used Vinca before, it's very reliable. I'm seeing everything in a new light now!