Decorate with flowers at summer parties

Green garlands are ideal as a decoration for a party with many guests. They wind their way across the table like an interconnected green thread. Tie together ivy branches with green leaves from the garden and the store, and insert flowers such as carnations, chrysanthemums and fireweed. To keep the garland fresh, you can put it in a cool place and spray it with water until the guests arrive.

Single flowers and leaves in tall and low vases that you place in groups on the table or hang from the ceiling can be varied endlessly. Play with colors and shapes, pick up the color of the vase in the flower, or combine in all the colors of the rainbow. Fire top, Indian lily, peony and lady's mantle flowers are some examples of flowers that are well suited to being cut and placed in small vases.

The bathroom is a great place to surprise your guests with a colorful flower arrangement, or a single flower in a vase if space is limited. Chrysanthemums are a grateful cut flower that comes in countless colors and shapes. For example, you can combine them with green twigs and leaves for a bouquet with volume and color. Chrysanthemums also look great on their own in one or more small vases on the edge of the sink.

Airy floral decorations with lots of volume for the side table or as welcome attractions in the hallway. You can bring in nature and mix freely from the garden, the meadow and the shop. Choose a wide vase and fill it so that the flowers stand steady. A wild mix in midsummer can be peony, hydrangea, lady's mantle, daisies, lisianthus, carnations, cornflowers and gentiana.

Floral wreaths are not only for headdresses, they also look great on the table. Tie a simple wreath of, for example, gentiana, goldenrod, chamomile and green twigs.

String lights, candles and green twigs create a lovely lush and green atmosphere at the table, whether in the marquee, on the terrace or indoors. If you add bright roses or peonies, lady's mantle leaves and flowers and ivy garlands, you will have a beautiful wedding table.

White or pink lilies in tall vases give a magnificent and classic look, and together with a couple of candelabra the buffet table will have a lovely height. Feel free to put some stones in the bottom of the vase so the flowers stand steady.

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