Celebrating a year in flowers with a round up of DIY floral arrangements and seasonal centerpiece inspiration. You’ll find flower longevity tips, short cuts and techniques to create affordable arrangements using grocery store and garden flowers.
Happy January, I hope your holidays were merry and bright! I’m enjoying visiting with my sister this week and it’s been fun to catch up and relax by the twinkling lights of the tree after a busy December.
I have the pleasure of joining my Monday Morning Blooms friends, Shirley, Pam and Lidy, on the first and third Mondays every month. I always look forward to some flower therapy on those Mondays as helps my creativity *bloom*, even if I find myself scrambling to find flowers! I hope you’re up for some flower therapy too, as I share a look back at a year in flowers with highlights from the months and seasons.
Click on the links in highlighted in red if you’d like to visit the post for the tutorial or tips!
Puppy Flower Arrangement with Carnations
This puppy bouquet arrangement is dog gone fun to create and share with someone in need of some puppy love. You can create one for a fraction of the price of one from the florist. . . four-legged inspiration helpful, but not required. ;) 🐾🐾
A Blooming Valentine’s Tea Party Centerpiece
This easy tea-themed flower arrangement and centerpiece is a perfect way to share some love with your girlfriends with a Valentine’s Day Tea Party or to celebrate Galentine’s Day!
Lemons and Bees Flower Arrangement and Table
Use the vase-within-a-vase method for easy flower arranging! Lemons provide a sunny and decorative way to conceal the flower stems, with a surprise addition of some bee ‘jewelry’.
Spring Green Cabbage Vase Floral Arrangement for St. Patrick’s Day
Reader favorite floral arrangement of 2019, using a cabbage as a vase for spring or St. Patrick’s Day celebration!
Spring Blooms in the Potting Shed
Ball jar bouquets of hyacinths, tulips and iris provide spring blooms to pair with vintage transferware for some tabletop gardening in the Potting Shed.
Create a Fresh Floral Table Runner for Spring or Easter
DIY blooming table runner with fresh flowers for an Easter or spring table! Snowball viburnum blooms join hydrangeas and decorative eggs in a runner down the length of the table.
Side note: I highly recommend planting a snowball viburnum this spring in your garden! See my post: Fast Growing and Low Maintenance White Spring Blooms.
Flowers for Mother’s Day Arrangement
Create a floral centerpiece or bouquet for mom using both grocery store and garden flowers
Celebrating the Red, White and Bloom with Transferware
Use blue and white vessels or dishes with flowers for a patriotic nod to Memorial Day
Buzzing with Bees + ‘Honey It’s Good’ Flower Arrangement
Think outside the vase with an upcycled vintage honey can for garden flowers by the Potting Shed
Easy Patriotic Flower Arrangement with a Picnic Tin, Mason Jars and Blooming Wellies
Celebrating the red, white and blue with flowers for the July 4th
DIY Summer Fruit and Flower Arrangement + Tablescape
DIY arrangement and centerpiece using fruit and flowers with easy shortcuts and tips, no floral foam required.
Dockside Dining with Butterflies and Hydrangeas
Flower arrangement using hydrangeas from the garden and a tip to keep your cut hydrangeas from wilting.
DIY Summer Flower Arrangement with Seashells and Hydrangeas
Add some seaside charm for summer with a flower arrangement incorporating seashells
Fall Arrangement with Foliage
Celebrate the beauty of fall with an arrangement of foliage, pods and grasses gathered from the great outdoors. This easy arrangement adds some natural beauty and an affordable organic touch of fall to your home, free-for-the-clipping.
Autumn Table + DIY Blooming Pumpkin the Easy Way
Create a blooming pumpkin as a centerpiece for your fall or Thanksgiving table the easy way~ no cutting required!
Harvest of Blooms + Harvest Pumpkin Turkey Tablescape
DIY long-lasting floral arrangement with time-saving shortcuts and tips, using harvest elements as a centerpiece for a Thanksgiving or fall table
‘In Fine Feather’ Alfresco Fall Arrangement and Tablescape
Fall flower arrangement incorporating feathers
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
~Luther Burbank
Mary, Thanks so much for sharing your talent and tips with us. I have a lot more confidence and used the chicken wire and jars tucked in a box to create arrangements for my church and garden club. Wishing you and your family a Happy New Year!
Every one of your arrangements are beautiful! I am so envious of your green thumb and talent. Your blog posts are always such a delight to open and peruse! Happy New Year! Looking forward to another exciting year with “Home is where the boat is”.
Lovely lovely lovely
So many lovely arrangements and your tutorials are easy to follow. Thank you~
Mary
Thanks for all your great ideas. They are so beautiful and cheerful!
You make “my” day……..
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
You are one very talented woman. Please continue to share, to inspire and to create! You make my day!! Thank You!!!!!!
You are so talented and gifted and we are so lucky that you share your talents with us! Thankyou fort he tricks ,beauty and fun of your creations keep it up please💐
Mary, thank you for all your wonderful posts this past year! i look forward to them every week. Wishing you a Happy New Year in 2020 :)
It was so nice to revisit all your beautiful arrangements, Mary! You always share your creativity and talents with us so willingly. Thank you! 💕
You are so very talented. Everything you create is eye candy. .
A beautiful visit into your lovely year! Thank you!
The perfect way to start my day, flush in lush gorgeous bouquets and plants! I have been pruning roses, bent over head to knees for a week, hauling pavers and bearing frozen solid fountains with numb fingers working until I can barely shuffle home, why, FOR THIS KIND OF BEAUTY! thanks for such beautiful bounty~
What beautiful photography you have here! The flower puppy – at the top of the post – is so cute and the cabbage with the flowers on top elegant. A very inspiring and lovely post indeed! Wish you a happy new year with lots more flower therapy :-)
Beautiful bloom therapy on a dreary day! Yay! All of your creations are delightful. Enjoy your sister’s visit; have fun & relax. We’re looking forward to Monday! Clara ❤️
Beautiful Mary. Thanks so much for bringing so much beauty and joy into our day. Always, always look forward to your posts. I wish you a very Happy and Blessed New Year!
Happy New Year! Loved seeing a year of flowers in review…. all of them so lovely!
Mary, I love each one of these and remember each one. I cannot choose a favorite, they are all unique and beautiful. It is such a delight to share Monday Morning Blooms with three very talented and creative ladies! See you Monday❤️
What a wonderful flower year in review. They are all so pretty, but I have to say the very first one, the puppy face made with the white carnations has stolen my heart. ♥️🐾 I am still amazed at how life-like it is, especially with the fur-babies in the background looking on. The lemon – bee flower arrangement is my second favorite — like sunshine in a jar! You are the BEST Mary! Looking forward to this Monday and more inspiration.
These are so beautiful! Great ideas x
My flower loving friend, this is a fabulous way to start the new year! I don’t like to single out a favorite, but the puppy arrangement certainly has stolen my heart! I pinned the mosaic for quick reference. Thanks, Mary! I look forward to 2020 and all that you will share!
Mary, I started reading this post thinking I would pick a favorite, but it is impossible! They are all so stunning and beautiful! I always appreciate your professional tips and inspiration, what a treat to have a chance to revisit all these gorgeous arrangements in 1 post!
Jenna
Thanks for this blog. I learned a lot from this blog. I love flowers so much. Thanks for these tips you post for us. What a beautiful flower designs and arrangement. I hope you can teach me flower arrangements like that so that I can use it if there is an occasion in our family.
Your floral arrangements are too-die-for. Once social distancing ends in our state and we really feel it is safe to go to the stores during designated times for the demographics particularly at risk for the virus, I am going to start buying flowers again and adding them to my roses and copying some of your arrangements and tips. You are awesome.