Bottled Flowers: Easy Decoration Tips

Make your table look more inviting by adding some color to it. It doesn't matter if your table is situated in your dining room or in your kitchen, flowers are the perfect way to bring nature, life and color to your meals. If you have a garden, you will be able to collect some colorful blooms from it in spring, summer and autumn. If you don't have a garden and in winter you may buy a flowers at your local florist's shop. Getting some flowers onto your table is as easy as one two three. All you need to get going is small bottles and colorful flowers.

 
If you don't have them handy, start off by collecting glass bottles on the smaller side. Anything smaller than wine and champagne bottles will do, but ideally you restrict the hoarding to bottles of up to about 0.3 litres. All different forms and many different sizes are welcome; an eclectic mixture can add charm to your decoration. Make sure you get the bottles squeaky clean on the inside when collecting them to keep remaining content from producing germs. Use bleach, toilet cleaner, or any other kind of detergent to that end; you won't use them for drinking anymore. Before using them for flowers, clean them again.

Fill the bottles with fresh water and add flowers to them; should you use large blooms like peonies, dahlia or gerbera, one flower will be enough. If you are going to use smaller blooms like freesia, santini or aster, you might want to use two or three stems depending on the size of the bottle. There are no rules to follow; you have to like what you see, and that's all. If you like, you can always add some greenery from your garden. In winter, you might opt for some branches without green on them, too.

You can place your flower bottles on your table any which way you like it. If you use bottles of different height and size, you can make groups of them forming them into a table center or disperse them singly over the table in between the bits and pieces of your meal. Your imagination is the only limit of what you can do with just a few bottles and flowers to bring some live to your table. Regrouping them over the course of the day brings a new design to every meal you serve to your family.

And you can keep your flowers for quite some time if you keep changing the water in your bottles every day.

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