Spring Flowers: LTCCB#73

 Hello Crafty Friends.  

A little different post for my Love to Craft! Challenge Blog where anything crafty is allowed.

This is a flower bulb centerpiece.  I found a local flower farm near my home, Five Blossoms Farm and have done a couple workshops; the first one being a live wreath for Christmas workshop.  At this workshop, we learned how to force bulbs and take care of our centerpiece.   The bulbs can be planted in ground to enjoy for years to come.  

These flowers were available for our centerpieces.  Some were grown in the greenhouse and some from the flower field.  

These flowers in the bucket were from the field, which took volunteers to help plant the over 10k of bulbs one cold Saturday in December. 

Make sure you have a drainage hole on the bottom.  Add a little bit of moss on the bottom and fill with good potting soil.  Carefully lift the flowers from the soil with bulb and arrange in your container.  Fill with more soil. 

Top it off with some moss to make it pretty.  When the flowers are spent, cut off the flowers, but leave the green attached, this will make sure you have a bloom for next year.  The hyacinths smell amazing right now.

These flowers were from the field.  They pull up the bulbs when gathering the flowers, because they last longer  then if you were to cut then, like this arrangement in the glass.  It was interesting to learn about this farm and the amazing couple that run it.