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diy project: garden-fresh flowers

You don’t need to spend so much on flowers to remember our loved ones this All Souls’ Day. If you have a garden at home, you’ll definitiely find something that can be used for a decent arrangement. For instance, birds of paradise are common in our gardens and they make good cut flowers because they last for a long time (at least a week).

I made this one earlier for our altar–a combination of birds of paradise flowers and a bird’s nest fern leaf.

1. First, I lined the clear vase with a large birds of paradise leaf.
2. Instead of using a floral foam, I just rolled sectioned leaves of the plant and stuff them into the vase until it is filled. These will support the vertical position of the flowers.
3. I then arranged the five flowers in varying heights and stuck a bird’s nest leaf on one side.

If this is too much of a challenge for you, you can just cut ten to fifteen stems of birds of paradise flowers in the same length, remove their leaves, and put them in a nice vase. It’s that simple, but equally charming.