FLOWER VASE ARRANGEMENT

For the aesthete, there's almost nothing worse than seeing a nubile young beauty in ill-suited couture. Nothing, except perhaps a bouquet of flowers in a mismatched vase. The horror indeed! While most people would just avert their eyes from such instances of floral injustice, we're going to take the proactive measure of offering some top tips for choosing the right vase.

Tip 1: Size matters

Thousands would argue differently, but we're digging our heels in on this one. Trust us, you don't want your flowers to look as if they've borrowed their chubby cousin's glad rags; neither should you attempt to rewrite the tale of Cinderella and her sisters by forcing a chunky stem into a glass slip of a vase that's clearly designed for more petite flowers. One slightly tired gerbera pouting from a slinky Coke bottle will look far more glamorous than a healthy bunch of freesias drowning in a giant crystal trumpet.

Tip 2: It's what you've got and what you do with it that counts

Whether you've been given a gift-wrap of a dozen or so stems that you'll be arranging yourself, a sumptuous hand-tied bouquet ready to plop straight into a vase, an assortment of tropical flowers or a single rose, you'll need to consider your flowers carefully if you're hoping to create a maximum-impact display.

Start by looking at the shape of the flowers, and don't be shy of leaping to logical conclusions. Tall stems such as gladioli really do like taller vases, and flowers with bare stems and an abundance of flower heads do well in trumpet-shaped containers that offer a supporting collar to lean on at the neck.

Tip 3: Shape up or ship out

Slender, curvaceous or perfectly plump - you can tell a lot about the character of your vase from its shape. Make sure you work with the whimsy of each vessel, or your arrangement may run aground.

The column vase - Twiggy: This is the no-nonsense tomboy of vases: straight up and down, literally as well as metaphorically. Like the 60s supermodel, the Twiggy vase is well admired for its versatility. It can model almost anything, but is best suited to modern, geometrical shapes and clean verticals. The long, straight lines of the vase accentuate the height of taller, more architectural flowers, which look particularly remarkable if the stems are spiraled around the base.

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