Recycled Flowers

Both the Palm Sunday and Easter flower arrangements were only used one day, but the flowers lasted much longer. I recycled the flowers into 5 new arrangements. First the Palm Sunday recycled arrangements...

 I placed the alstromeria, gypsophila and palm in a milk glass epergne that was my mother's mother's. The epergne made the flowers appear rounded without having to use oasis.

 I simply placed the pussy willows in a tall slim vase with clear gems in the base. Hopefully the branches will root so that we can plan them in the yard.

 Now for the Easter recycling...I placed the roses in a red vase with some eucalyptus and baker fern. The flash obscures the vase a bit, but the color combination is lovely.

 To recycle the tulips, I lined a square vase with tulip leaves and placed a small brick of oasis in the center. This held the tulips better than simply letting them droop on their own. The leaves hid the oasis floral foam.

 I had two tulips left, so I placed them in a hobnail milk glass vase that is one of my mother's favorites. I added some baker fern, eucalyptus, and a sprig of pink-tipped dogwood from the yard. The top two I will take to work, but mummykins gets the hobnail vase arrangement.