Simple Floral Arrangement – A Fern and Purple Statice
Simple Floral Arrangement – A Fern and Purple Statice
Hi friends! Today I’m sharing a very simple floral arrangement that I brought together on Valentine’s Day. It truly is very simple in my opinion. It consists of one green stem and one stem of tiny clustered purple flowers! I’m honestly not sure if I should even call it a floral arrangement but hey, I’m going with that for now I guess 🙂
So my husband bought me and my daughter 2 small bouquets for Valentine’s Day. They were both very pretty, but I’ve realized something…I never really like all of the greenery that many times comes in floral bouquets. Especially the fern. (I disliked it so much that I had to write that in bold, lol) Don’t get me wrong, I love many greens and fillers used in arrangements but not so much the fern.
Does that ever happen to you, someone gives you flowers and you can’t bring yourself to completely loving it?
But anyway, it never quite looks beautiful, for me atleast, and kind of takes away from the rest of the flowers in the bunch. I’m always tempted to just take it right out of the arrangement but then I would feel horrible not doing anything with it or dare I say throw it out! Gasp!! no, no, no.
I love flowers way too much to do that.
Since I don’t always love the entire bouquet I’ve started taking them apart whenever I receive flowers and making a few different arrangements in multiple vases. (Yay for more flowers around the house) And you know what? Now I’m loving the fern.
If you’ve visited my blog before you may already know that I don’t decorate much with real flowers. Sadly I just don’t have the green thumb for them so it’s almost always faux for me. But because of a few special days (Valentine’s and Mother’s day, thank you hubby) I’m lucky enough to enjoy real flowers in my home for at least a couple of weeks.
Simple Floral Arrangement – A Fern and Purple Statice
For my arrangement I’m using one leather leaf fern and a purple statice stem.
I placed the fern into my vase, laying it off to one side.
If you read the first part of this blog post then you know that I wasn’t a fan of ferns, but this arrangement has really changed my mind about that. I’m amazed with its size and beautiful almost triangle shape or even Christmas tree shape to it.
My purple flower, named purple statice, (trust me, I had to search for that name) has small clusters of tiny flowers. They have a pretty tough stem that kept it upright but I went ahead and tucked it in between the little branches of my fern to help it stay upright even more because I thought that it just looked so so pretty and interesting in that position.
And that’s it for this very simple floral arrangement.
I’ve been able to enjoy my flowers for over two weeks now with minimal maintenance at all. I’ve changed the water maybe three times and the beautiful green and purple shades have kept very well.
I hope this motivates you to play around with floral bouquets and see what you can come up with the next time someone gives you flowers too!
Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!
