A Hands-on Bouquet With Lillies

I am back to share my monthly bouquet (a especially sweet Christmas present from the hubs). And simply like last month’s roundup of roses, this month’s blooms did not hail from the grocery store at all. In lieu of the normal $3-5 bouquet, we spent nada and headed out the back door to clip some white lilies for a swift little display in our sunroom. Here they are adding some life to a collection of vases and recycled beverage and wine bottles (some which are left over from our wedding):

I enjoy the big white petals and the chocolate polka dots that seem to hover above each bloom.

I have also noticed that we seem to especially enjoy putting our budget bouquets in distinct vases and locations for a totally new effect each time around. While last month’s collection cheered up the living room, our new arrangement greets us at the door (we park in the back and enter through the sunroom so we get to see ’em coming and going). It is also pleasant to remember that anything can be a vase (so save those Pellegrino bottles and old toothbrush holders!).

What about you folks? Have you clipped any glad little flowers courtesy of your backyard or rescued any bouquets from your local grocery store? We’d enjoy to know what blooms are tickling your fancy these days- and what free fauna your backyard is yielding now that summer is in full effect.

Wanna see our first grocery store bouquet from last January? Itching to check out February, March, April, May, and June too?Simply follow the links for some fairly sweet low-cost-o bouquets.