A bouquet of flowers in a vase

Flowers - an attribute that takes a worthy place in the interior of any room. A well-chosen bouquet, a well-chosen vase can tell a lot about their owner. Also, these small but very important elements of the interior can create a general mood. For example, if a vase with a bouquet of tulips, daffodils and freesias in combination with twigs of half-blown willows, alder or birch appeared in the apartment or office, everyone will have a light, spring mood. Touchingly, gently and in the spring will look snowdrop flowers, fixed on a sprig of spruce or pine. Best for this composition is a small round vase. This composition will remind of the awakening nature and spring.
In this article we will try to figure out how to make a bouquet of flowers vase looked beautiful, original and harmonious.

The shape of the vase.
Nowadays vases come in a variety of sizes, colors and textures. Vases can be tall: oval, cylindrical, widening to the top; low: round, square, asymmetric, flat. But do not choose a vase of too bright color and with sculptural ornaments, this can divert attention from the flowers themselves. Also as vases, use unusual snags and a weave of birch bark, inserting a jar of water in them.

Vase and flowers.
To any colors vases of all shades of brown, green, white and black colors will suit.

Crystal, glass vases and handmade metal containers are well suited for such colors as: orchid, clove, calla, gerbera, anthurium.
In small crystal vases, flowers with smooth pedicels - daffodils, nasturtiums, hyacinths, freesias, are spectacular.

Simple ceramic vases and clay pots are a godsend if you want to put a bouquet of wildflowers on a table. Such vases are suitable for chamomile, cornflower, lungwort, forget-me-not, for annuals - marigold, salvia, zinnia.

Floor ceramic and porcelain vases are required for large flowers - gladiolus, lily, iris, agapanthus, as well as branches of lilac, mimosa, bird cherry, broom of cereals, etc.

Decorative greenery.
To give a bouquet in a vase a finished look, usually use ornamental foliage. The most common is the openwork greens of asparagus plumosus, gypsophila and ivy shoots, monster leaves, palm trees, begonias. The arrangement of greenery should look natural, it can not be given a position that is inappropriate to its nature. It is desirable to cover the edge of the vase with a hanging branch or shoot.

Fixing flowers in a vase.
To fix the flowers in a small low vase, use pebbles or sand. In cases where this is not enough, the stems are fixed with wire. In narrow-necked vases the stems of flowers can not be fixed. In a cylindrical vase, a cross-shaped fastening is used, or a branch split at the end is inserted into the vase. Wide-necked vases use metal tattoos, a fine wire mesh or a bundled wire.