Hello my craft-loving peeps!
It’s time for something different! All the visits to botanical gardens lately brought on the whim to add some blooming color to my porch. Over the past 14 years I have tried many different hanging plants, but I seem to have a black thumb. Thank goodness the orchids don’t think so! : ) Since there were recently some amazing sales at the craft stores, I decided to try my hand at arranging some silk flowers into a hanging basket…
I like that you can hardly tell they’re not real!
I started with a moss covered Hello Spring hanging basket that was one sale at JoAnn (70% off PLUS a coupon) and put my old rusty decorative hanging planter frame inside to give me something I could use to attach the vines.
I had a 25′ ivy garland, so I cut it into several two foot strips to hang and a couple of longer ones to go around the top edge. Since the fine was thin enough, I just pulled off the leaves near the end to leave a strip long enough to tie around the wire frame of the inner basket.
I then used hot glue to secure the knot and to add the pulled off leaves back in wherever they looked good. The Ashland Spring Garland of blooms from Michaels was too thick to tie itself, so I used some twist ties around a junction and hot glued them for extra security, too.
The Ashland Spring Bushes and Stems were also on sale for 60-70% off and I used my 60% off coupon for the foam base. The stems and bushes can be cut to the right length with a wire-cutter. The plastic cuts easily and then you can bend it back and forth to break the wire.
Since it’s up high, you can hardly see the white foam base, but I had moss roll and tucked it in. It would have been better to have put this down first and poked the flowers through it as I had to use some long straight pins and bend them over to hold it down.
A measly little hanging plant less than half that size runs around $35, but this one cost me less than $25 after all the discounts and looks way better… at least in my opinion. : )
I’ll be back soon with pictures from Butterfly World…. the last time we went early in the morning on a cool day and everyone was hanging around posing and waiting for the sun to warm them up rather than flitting around frantically like usual, so it’s taking me ages to whittle down the best of the pics to show you.. I’ve got it down to just over 100 so far. lol.
Have a wonderful day and I hope to see you back here real soon!
~D.Ann
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