Floral Decoration Quotes

I'm clueless when it comes to flowers.

I arrange flowers in my spare time. Well, when I have spare time, that is.

Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered by maidenhair and a piece of stiff lace paper, in which stems, leaves, and even petals are brutally crushed, and the grace and individuality of each flower systematically destroyed?

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.

Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to be a little less full.

My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.

Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.