all kind of containers

it's lovely to bring some of nature's abundance into your home, especially if you don't have garden. i rarely buy flowers but in spring i like to raid my mother's garden or to pick wild flowers. as you can tell from the vast choice in the shop i have a weakness for vases and - interestingly combined in shape, colour, material (different texture, transparency or opacity, reflection of light, or lack of it)- they even look good without flowers! conversely flowers manage to look good in all sorts of simple containers like nice glasses, teapots, glass bottles etc so to reach for your wallet is not mandatory at all.

some (mostly men?) may not get the mathematics of it, but if you like to play, you can't get enough vases. but here are the basics:

• 1 tall tubular container preferably of glass (for the weight) so it can take large asymmetrical branches


• 1 rather tall vase with a small opening (for a single stem flower)


• 1 big vase with large opening for bouquets


• 2 small vases with different openings


• 1 tiny little vase for wild flowers that you can pick at the side of the road