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And this is episode four of our mini series on Florestery and me using the backdrop of the lovely flowers we have at Perch Hill

where we've picked lots of things and I'm going to show you how I arrange them. So today I'm going to

show you a vase, a standard vase and what I want to talk about first of all is the shape of the vase.

Now to be perfect you ideally want a spaying neck because then the stems come out and you can almost have them sort of parallel with the table, almost horizontal, which makes for a very relaxed arrangement, which is what I want.

Sort of columnar cylindrical vases are much, much more

difficult to make look natural. So I don't tend to use them. And I actually find the goldfish

bowl look where it actually comes in even more difficult to use. You can by sort of threading in under one side and then under

another get them looking quite informal, but it is definitely more difficult. So a spaying

neck like this one is really perfect. This colour is wonderful because it kind of goes with

everything. It really does. Like clear glass vases, it goes really well,

but the jade glass is just fabulous. I completely love it. So that's number one. Number two,

if you can find vases that have some kind of ledge or belly, then you can just tuck a few stems

in there and criss-cross through going into that sort of

ledge or shelf and that makes you really easy vars to use without chicken wire. So that's the second

characteristic and the third characteristic is you can't quite see.

But if you've got the sort of hole in the polo in the base of the vars, that really helps too.

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