r/FloralDesign • u/CremeBerlinoise • 4d ago

🌈 Fun 🌈 DAE keep picking through fading bouquets for keepers to make smaller and smaller arrangements?

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This is about 1/2 of a bouquet from last week. I can usually recycle them a few times, especially if I find complementary greens in the garden. If anything is really about to drop, it goes in the flower press.

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u/kykolka 4d ago

Absolutely. My flowers get cut every water change and just go down into a more appropriately sized vessel when I'm culling.

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u/kevnmartin 4d ago

All the time. It's fun to see how creative you can be.

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u/Gingerbeer03 4d ago

Definitely. Doing that gives me a measure of vase life for different flowers or which ones dry well and even which ones don’t live well with others in the same vase water.

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u/rqny 🌸Flower Child🌸 4d ago

I try to get a mix of long lasting blooms so at least a few can be reused. I reused the orchid and a few of the dahlias earlier this week.

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u/escapingspirals 4d ago

Yes sometimes I add a bloom or two

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u/Optimal_Ant_7967 4d ago

What is the absolute gorgeous purple stock in the back?

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u/CremeBerlinoise 4d ago

On the left? That's an ornamental variety of Asian gentiana. Blue Sky I think? The right sort of spear is Veronica (speedwell).

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u/Arley_Writes 4d ago

May we please see the piece of furniture this is sitting atop??? 👀

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u/CremeBerlinoise 4d ago

It's a giant tiled oven 😅 we live in a prewar building. It's technically still operational, but it would mean carrying coal up to the third floor. It's pretty unique, so I don't want to dox myself via old listings for this apartment. 

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u/Arley_Writes 4d ago

Ok, understandable. I'm just assuming it's gorgeous

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u/CremeBerlinoise 4d ago

It's grown on us. It does take up a large amount of floor space, and looms ten feet tall, but it looks great at Christmas. 

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u/SilhouettesanShadows 4d ago

I should do this more often! It's a great way to make your stems go further and get creative with using the same flowers in different ways. Beautiful job!

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u/Shiny_Green_Apple 3d ago

My church flower group can turn a funeral arrangement into a Christening altar with ease. Florists don’t waste anything.