Learn 3 Ways to Arrange Sweet Peas
My sweet peas took absolutely ages to flower in the garden this year and they're finally at their peak at the moment. They're a flower that benefits from being cut and enjoyed indoors so the more flowers you cut from your sweet peas, the more will be able to grow on the plant in the garden. They’re know as cut and come again flowers and this is the perfect excuse to keep cutting the flowers for vases on the coffee table indoors.
Have you got sweet peas growing in the garden that you’ve been putting in a vase, but you’re wondering about other ways you could arrange them? Here are 3 ways to arrange sweet peas and enjoy them indoors without crowding them all together into one vase.
1. Cut them long
This is a great technique for you to put your sweet peas in a tall vase. Instead of cutting the sweet peas at the base of the stem of the flower, travel slightly further down the plant and include some leaves and tendrils too. These sweet pea tendrils and leaves also add lots of shape and interest to a vase arrangement and mean that the stems are long and striking, rather that being too short and lost amongst other stems in a vase. Make sure you take off any lower leaves that are submerged under the water because they'll turn the water murky very quickly.
2. Little bottles
If you've got lots off short stems of sweet peas, you can spread them out to make them go further. Do this by putting them in little bud vases and bottles and scattering them along a table. You could put 2, 3 or 4 flowers in each bottle, so each flower can be appreciated, rather than being lost alongside all the others in 1 vase.
Group the bottles together if you’re decorating a round or square table, and for trestle tables spread the bottles out in a line or a zigzag.
3. Mix other flowers in
Gather a few other flowers from the garden, or from pots you've got growing, to instantly create a cottage garden look. I cut some cosmos, and 1 stem from the pink rose in the garden and popped them in this little watering can for some kitchen floral cheer.
Most sweet peas are scented, so if you’re using other scented flowers from the garden, your room will be filled with the beautiful fragrance of the outside. Roses and sweet peas create a wonderful scent when they’re together in an arrangement.
Remember to keep cutting your sweet peas from the plant outside to encourage the flowers to keep on coming. If the flowers are left on the plant, they turn into seed pods and the plant focuses its energy on creating the pods, rather than creating more flowers. So if you cut the flowers to enjoy indoors, the plant will be able to use its energy to make more flowers for you.
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