Flowers In Your Rooms

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17947, 26 November 1932, Page 10

Flowers In Your Rooms

QOOD advice on the arranging of flowers in the home was given recently in an article in an overseas newspaper.

In pointing out that there is only one right wav, and many wrong ways, of dealing with them, the writer slated that one important consideration concerns the choice of a receptacle. Short-stemmed flowers, need small, squat vases, but long stemmed flowers require a vase with height proportionate to their length, while between these two extremes me blooms which need vases of medium size and fairly wide hecks.

This rule, however, may be broken if a shallow bowl is used with a perforated glass support for the steams of each bloom. In arranging flowers it is important that the lines of their composition should relate them with surrounding .objects. Perhaps one or two of the taller sprays can be so placed that they seem to link the flowers with a picture on the nearest wall, an ornament,;, or an electric floor standard which happens to oc eupv a nearby position. As a general rule It. is bottei* not to mix more than one kind .of flower in the same botvl or vase. 'f’he simpler modern wall treatments are particularly good ns a background for flowers. One of the best of all settings for flowers is a plain cream wall very faintly suffused with pink. This erentes a light, neutral background, and the danger of a colordash is a !lu,os t "eliminated. , Another good background is pale apple green. With walls- in these colors flowers may safely bo of any hue, but if walls are definitely pink, or blue, or orange, it. is best to limit oneself to flowers that show a complementary color. With blue walls, choose orange or yellow flowers; with orange walls choose light, blue and rose-tinted flowers and light green foliage; and with pink walls yellow and sometimes mauve flowers are generally the best.