Ways To Use Garden Flowers in Your Home

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Ways To Use Garden Flowers in Your Home

Updated August 21, 2010
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Garden flowers can make the outside of your home more beautiful but can also add delicate and vibrant beauty to your indoor décor. When used in home décor arrangements, garden flowers can add a whimsical touch of spring or summer to your kitchen, living room, bedroom or any other space in your home.

Table Centerpieces

After gathering cut flowers from your garden, a creative table centerpiece is a great way to bring the loveliness of garden flowers to your dinner table design. The best way to use garden flowers is to mix and match textures, colors and height. The common tie between the flowers you choose for your centerpiece can be as simple as the season they bloom in or the mere fact that you grew and cultivated the blossoms yourself. The subdued coloration of peonies and larkspur can be paired together for a light and airy arrangement or added to a garden flower centerpiece with alliums or geraniums to balance those flowers brighter hues.

Indoor Window Boxes

An indoor window box is a great indoor showcase for garden flowers. With an indoor window box you have the option of growing and cultivating your flowers indoors, which can bring life to an apartment, or bring cut flowers in from your outdoor garden and arrange the flowers in a nonfunctional window box. If you love yellow, for example, bright and sunny marigolds are easy to grow and work well in an indoor window box. Zinnias and cosmos are also well suited to an indoor window box arrangement and come in warm, vibrant colors that can accent a minimal or country themed design.

Wreaths

We’ve all hung wreaths in the autumn and for the winter holidays, but a spring or summer wreath decorated with garden flowers can aid in bringing the attractiveness of your outdoor garden indoors. The best base for a spring garden flower wreath is pussy willows attached to a simple metal wreath frame. Cherry blossoms look great on a spring time wreath and can be easily paired with vibrantly colored tulips. The creation of your garden flower wreath can also serve as a fun craft activity for friends or family members to take part in.

Garden flowers are delicate, beautiful and represent the new life of spring and lively atmosphere of summer. By infusing home grown or purchased garden flowers into your indoor home décor, you can breath life into a drab design or make a table setting more welcoming.