I’m making progress, truly.
I shall explain or should I say confess…here goes….
I’m no longer as thoroughly enamored by symmetry as I once was. In fact I think I now prefer things in threes!
Phew, that feels good.
I think I felt safe and slightly secure in my sets of two’s and four’s for the longest time. But what about three? It’s the magic number after all.
{three pale pink bottles from IKEA, three hydrangea heads from my garden}
As Robert and I slowly make our way through the house painting the walls I also go around and try to make the best of some very bare spaces. As soon as the final coat of paint has gone on I’m right behind it with my hammer and picture hanging kit. Seriously, I am desperate to get ‘stuff’ on the walls. But I don’t want to have to do everything twice so until I’m slightly more certain of what shape the walls will take I’m decorating around them.
Hence the plant stand in the kitchen and the three, flower filled, bottles.
These will last for days and days if I keep the water fresh and even if I don’t they aren’t going anywhere fast. Which is why I absolutely encourage anyone to grow their own flowers. It feels better having them in your house.
Invest in a hydrangea plant right now. They are in bloom at every supermarket and every garden centre and do brilliantly in pots if you are short on space.
I’m enjoying my new found freedom that has come in my release from Symmetry Prison.
Ahhh, the possibilities.
I am perhaps making too much of it, what I really wanted to say was that I love Hydrangea heads in glass bottles.
There, we can all get on now.
I love you.
Cherry x
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Hi Cherry, I do so love the look of those hydrangea’s in those pretty vases. I love those bottles. Not sure the hubby will allow another trip to IKEA…. maybe I can fit it in…. 4 more days to do so before term finishes ;0)
I do love 3′s though. My fireplace, mantel, photos… all sorts of grouping of the number 3 variety!!
Enjoy your weekend, x
I remember many years ago when I read that there should be no straight lines in a garden and things should be planted in threes. I have used three or five since then. But…my hubby teases me when we are at the supermarket together because I always buy an even number of oranges or apples. Just to tease him back I now select an odd number of bananas!
I adore hydrangeas. You are so lucky that they grow so easily there in England. I have one “Annabelle” hydrangea that survived the winter because hubby made a cage around it and filled it with dry leaves all around the poor bush. I bought Annabelle because it is supposed to be the most cold hardy hydrangea. This year is has exactly 6 blooms getting ready, while last year I only got two. But I dried them and they are sitting in a vase on my white dresser. It does bug me that there are only two! I will add more in September from this second year of some success!
Beautiful! You can’t go wrong with pink!
always odds!!! 3s 5s and at christmas 9s…(the 9s are including candles clustered on a tray on a table..all different heights)
love the bottles and flowers….where do you keep all these things?
jacqueline x
Gorgeous bottles.
Myself and odd numbers have also been romancing each other for too long.
I feel genuinely more like to crash my car when the volume is on an odd number… not that those numbers represent anything tangible! Silliness.
I may join you in leaving the even number side and step over to the magic three side!
I have read before that odd numbers make a flower display more aesthetically pleasing!
Sue x
This made me laugh – i like threes and fives on my living room window sill. Buy a bunch of cheap supermarket flowers (I’m not blessed with your green fingers Cherry!) and divide into mason or kilner jars and put in a row, or cluster, depending on space. People always assume they are home grown because of the homespun look of the vases. And I love sweet peas from the garden (the only blooming plant I seem to have any success with) in jam jars on the mantlepiece.
Love the Ikea bottles ~ and the hydrangeas also x
One of my favourites, Hydrangea.
Odd numbers are (nearly) always better, so I’m pleased you crossed over from the dark side of even numbers.
PS. I never even noticed you went for twos and fours. Haha !
I always like to display things in threes, or in fours if they’re grouped above and below on a wall. There’s definitely something pleasing about a little dischord in a room that is otherwise symmetrical!
Hydrangeas remind me of my late Nana who died suddenly when I was 18 (at the age of 80). She had hydrangeas either side of her back door, and I still can’t look at them without thinking of her. Perhaps I should plant one in our garden as a reminder of my Nana – they’ve always made me too sad up until now, but if I can appreciate their beauty and bring a little of her memory into our house (in gorgeous containers), then I think I should! There is a space by our shed that needs to be filled ….
Cx
They are beautiful! We have a white hydrangea which goes a light powder blue when it’s on way out, it’s amazing! The blooms never last very long when I cut them though, will try again and keep the water fresh like you say. Pic going on f.b if I can get them looking as good as your pics!
Also, I’m sure I’ve heard Monty say that plants/flowers look best in 3′s in the garden so may be true for the house too!
Low. X
Hi Lowri, my local florist told me that hydrangeas like deep water – apparently they are happiest right up to their necks (or as deep as you can get them). Maybe that will help? Bex.
I had hydrangeas as my wedding flowers, they always make me smile to see them!
Lol, my friend will only eat sweets in threes! I love those Ikea bottles, there are so many rain related broken stems in my garden that these would be ideal, at the moment I’m using a 1930s milk bottle!