I must have flowers . . .

Like Monet, I must have flowers, but it can get expensive buying fresh flowers every week 

and it is time consuming fluffing the bouquets each day as flowers wilt.

More important, I need to be spending my time taming the jungle.

So, I was really excited when I came across a variety of great paper flowers

 and sweet dried flowers at Tuesday Morning a few weeks ago.

I took time away from the garden to style the flowers - 

mostly in the guest room.

Maybe I should call it the Flower Room.

I'm using the old hospital cart as a desk these days.

The baskets have been around forever, but only used for storage - I like them on the old door filled with flowers and books.

I have lots of real plants on the porch and remember to water them because I walk past them multiple times every day.

On the other hand, I would put fresh flowers next to the guest room bed and forget about them so a bouquet of faux flowers is perfect.

Paper flowers are fun in the old typewriter

because I don't have to change them as they wilt.

I had no idea how many faux flowers I have until I started switching out for spring.

For now they are all sitting on a chair in my shed - it's nice to know I have a fallback when I can't get to Trader Joe's for flowers or my garden is depleted.

And now it's time to get back to garden.