This year has been a very good year for finding French garden urns. Not only did I find a collection of French-style garden urns from a local nursery, I also found a beautiful French Country white urn from a wholesale supplier in late March. The urns were shipped in May, and everything looks beautiful in them.
To add a French Country flower arrangement to the swing loft in my house, I filled one of the French-style pedestal urns with crepe myrtle blooms from my back yard.
F R E N C H C O U N T R Y W H I T E U R N
French Country is more than a decorating style. French Country is a lifestyle which means enjoying life everyday. As in creating flower arrangements for you and your family to enjoy for no special reason or occasion.
H O W T O C R E A T E
A S I M I L A R A R R A N G E M E N T
Gather whatever flowers are blooming in your yard to bring inside. For this arrangement, crepe myrtles, nothing else, fill the white chippy pedestal urn.
Place a large clear plastic liner in the urn to hold water for the flowers. The urn is 18.5" in diameter, and a 10" diameter by 3"-4" height clear liner easily fits inside below the rim of the urn.
General guidelines for creating an arrangement are to place a water-soaked block of floral foam so that it is a little taller than the edge of the container. For a casual, unstructured style you can forgo using floral foam in which to anchor the stems.
Start with the longer blooms to place around the rim. Just place branches so the ends are submerged in water, and the bloom tips reach beyond the rim of the urn and rest on the rim for support.
Cut the branches for the center of the arrangement shorter than the branches on the outer edges. Stand the short branches upright instead of leaning toward the outer rim. The long outer branches will support the central short blooms in woody flowers like crepe myrtles. The more flower branches used, the better they support each other to stand upright.
One general guideline to follow is to allow some of the blooms to drape over the side of the urn in a downward direction. Turn some of the outer branches so they will hang below the rim instead of just resting on the rim.
Crepe myrtle or crape myrtle? Most botanical sources use crape according to an executive editor of Webster's New World Dictionary, but Southern Living spells the tree as crepe.
And, there is a French connection. Crape is of French origin.
Both spellings are considered correct. For me, I prefer crepe.
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You can catch small glimpses of my swing loft in this post. Later this week you can see how I decorated my swing loft for summer with French Country decor, including the French Country white urn filled with crepe myrtle blooms.
French Country white urns will be for sale in this year's French Country Christmas Event. Unfortunately, they are not for sale in my online store due to shipping costs.
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If you missed my earlier post about the local French garden urns, read it here.
You may enjoy . . .
Reading tips for creating more formal French Flowers Today
Reading about garden urns at French Design on Friday - Plant Urn
Which way do you spell the tree ~ crepe myrtle or crape myrtle?
