Dried Flower Arangements Birch branches

We all need our privacy especially when we’re in the bathroom. Consider making natural birch branches into a free standing screen to conceal the great white throne. Decide on the size needed. Work it in a zig-zag (accordion style), securing it as you go with natural or colored raffia. Add pencil slim cattails in choice of colors (basil, bordeax, and mango, dk. brown, rust, or natural). Include some natural coco lashing, poking in at random a few polished heart shaped badham and mahogany pods in green, orange, red, or yellow. Finish this off with pro tea flowers combined with transparent oak leaves. If this is not sturdy enough to stand on its own, mount some of the stalks in painted concrete blocks and attach the end to the wall with hooks. Now you have your privacy plus an extra reading room. Grab a favorite magazine and read a page or two in solitude. But remember…DON’T HOG THE BATHROOM.

Now that the cold winter months are behind us, we have a perfect place in our home for a
new dried flower arrangement. How about a free standing fireplace screen using birch branches, snipping off the bottom ends to size needed? Mix in burgundy salt cedar and burgundy
preserved peppermint (Can’t you just smell that?). Tie them together with natural raffia. In the center attach 3 sun palms and 1 burgundy parchment hydrangea on a bed of burgundy preserved holly leaves and burgundy valasim tips. You won’t even miss the fire. After a search on the internet and magazines and catalogs, I found a page that sparked my imagination, solving a decorating problem. I have a narrow wall space in my home in need of a simple arrangement. I began by using a bundle of gold glittered birch branches, (on top of which we’ll add) 3 sun palms at staggered positions, overlapping them a bit, plus several green mushroom sponges slipped-in, along with green mahogany pods. In the center, place a green parchment hydrangea. Tie all this together with basil raffia, making a nice big gathered bow, leaving each end free, curling and hanging down.

A wooden post on your porch is the perfect place for natural birch branches. Wrap them around the post, pulling upward at different lengths. Mix in natural coco lashing. Work polished ata fruit and basil mahogany pods at random. Poke-in basil stone beans. Include a twig spray with bird nest as a neat tweet. Add an artificial bird. Tie this all together, by wrapping raffia around it and the post. Greet your guest with a warm “Welcome, glad you’re here”.

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Anna Schuster is a floral design consultant with Schusters of Texas, a family run business that specializes in growing and supplying dried flowers from their Texas Ranch to the retail and wholesale market place.