Decorating ideas with garden flowers

Garden flowers offer a home owner a colorful way to include the beauty of flowers like roses, irises, and orchids into a home’s decorating schemes. Because of their amazing colors, fanciful scents, and lovely shapes coming up with decorating with garden flowers can give a home quite a visual treat. They can be accent pieces or mainstays in a room and will add a burst of the unexpected, allowing a home decorator to uniquely express her sense of taste and style.

Garden Flowers and Outdoor Rooms

While decorating with garden flowers isn’t an unusual idea, there are some rooms that would especially benefit from the beauty of these flowers. These may not be rooms that one readily thinks about when incorporating garden flowers into the decorating scheme. One such room is the outdoor room. Outdoor rooms have become extremely popular in recent years, and these areas because of their locations represent logical places for floral-themed decor. These rooms can be completely closed in. Screen-in porches fall into this category. Or they can be partially or fully open to the elements as in the case of the back patio that one converts into an open living space.

The garden flowers a person chooses will depend upon the room and the type of flowers. As with most decorating schemes, color plays a big role in the choice of the flower, and often—especially with open types of outdoor rooms—the garden flowers inside the outdoor room will visually echo those in the garden, which is often just a few feet away. The decorator can incorporate them into the decor by either cutting flowers from her garden and creating arrangements for her indoor room for a coffee table, end tables, and an outdoor dining table. She can also bring large pots into the outdoor room and plant the same kinds of flowers in the pots as she has in her garden. If she opts for the latter plan, these large flower arrangements can adorn the ends of a wicker couch, be positioned on steps, or hang from ceiling baskets in beautiful planters.

Finally, for this room to be successful, the home decorator should choose furniture and fabrics that match and complement the colors of the garden flowers that she’s chosen for her decorating scheme. For example, if fresh roses feature into her decorating scheme, then outdoor furniture that has a rose pattern or is red like her roses will visually tie the whole indoor/ outdoor space together.

Off Seasons Decorating

Saying good-bye to a garden full of flowers is difficult once the seasons turn from summer to fall. However, dried garden flowers extend the floral season, making it possible to have these lovely blooms all year round. There are several options for using garden flowers to create beautiful dried flowers. Two of the simplest methods include pressing them and drying them upside down.

Creating flowers for the pressed method is simple, since you can use the free delivery with Serenata Flowers. One needs to take the flower petals, stems, and leaves from her flowers of choice and press them between the pages of a book. These then become the star feature in a gallery of framed, dried flowers. This decorating technique has existed for a long time and adds a beautiful and authentic touch to rooms decorated in the Victorian or English country style. The decorator can create an entire focal wall of artwork created from different types of flowers to bring visual interest to a space.

Another way that the home decorator can include dried garden flowers in her decorating is to hang the flowers upside down from wire until they’re completely dried. She can then snip the heads off and put them in a crystal vase along with pine cones, clear glass marbles, shells, or other decorative elements to create a floral centerpiece for a fall holiday dinner with family and friends.

While garden flowers often make into the house to be used as a centerpiece for a dining room table, these lovely works of art from nature have so much more decorative potential. Home owners should use them to brighten up all rooms of their home no matter what the season.

 

About the Author

Patricia Hall works part-time for Serenata Flowers UK an online florist and loves to surround herself with flowers at any given point of time. Even in her free time she loves to involve herself with everything flora and fauna.

‘To me there is nothing more beautiful and global as the language of flowers – it is the easiest to understand all around the world in the same way. That is one reason why I truly admire flowers for what they represent in some ways – unity of all mankind!’