ge1836 said:Wes : I dont get around to sales like that so the inexpensive DollarStore glasses works best for me.
I tried to enter this idea as a tip but havnt heard anything from admin,maybe I havnt waited long enough or it was declined.
Jo Ann, I completely agree with using drinking glasses and mason jars as also mentioned, especially with zinnias. The first top blooms are long and leggy and oh so easy to snip because you know what's backing them up. Cuttings tend to get shorter to avoid cutting off new buds. I've studied vases for a number of years, and yeah, it took awhile to sink in. Short vases with wide mouths exist to accommodate these later cuttings. Seems like you can always find on good centerpiece or sacrifice a bud or two to make one. I strip a lot of leaves but I like to leave some for adjustments in an arrangement. Florists use foam, we use leaves.
Horrible pictures in bad lighting so they're going to be small. One focused on a cool late 1950's glass and another featuring my P&J 1890's hand-blown "matching" Northwoods. I actually needed a tad more leaf matter in the older vases but I'd already stripped stems outside. The short drinking glass (8 oz. to the top) has a better spread at it's mouth and an interesting observation.
I've got at least 50 various drinking glasses of that era in this size and 2 dozen wider, taller. A Coke was what, 10oz.? So if you filled the 8oz. glass with ice, 2 Cokes? Now you buy a liter at the gas station. 3x the product for a basic purchase. "You're going to need a bigger glass". Hmmm.
I'll do some better shots of zinnias in drinking glasses and these antique vases. Daylight makes a world of difference, blacklight turns that world upside down!
Hopefully worth a view. Midnight, living room, artificial light...
