Weeds in Floral Arrangements

When we told you about our favorite weeds yesterday, we ended up wanting to see them in some pretty arrangements. So here, we've gathered up some arranged weeds in vases to show just how cool they can be:

• 1 This cutting room featured in Southern Accents proudly displays a robust arrangement of Queen Anne's lace, via The Blushing Hostess.
• 2 These delicate, daisy-like weeds look so pretty in a simple arrangement via Living @970.
• 3 These thistles have been dried to make for a long-lasting, winter-friendly flower arrangement, via Modest Craft.
• 4 Feathery dandelions that have gone to seed are used in this outside-of-the-box arrangement. We don't want to think about the mess it would make, but it sure does look pretty in a ghostly sort of way, via Love Your Place.

Comments (10)

The dandelion one is a painting btw, not real life. They probably wouldn't be so full if they were.

I used Queen Anne's lace in all the arrangements for my wedding 25 yrs ago. They were perfect- not too formal and stuffy.

I'll never forget the first time I saw goldenrod being sold at an exorbitant price in New York. This country girl almost laughed herself silly.

I'm not sure that you can count the third photo... while blue echinops certainly can reseed itself to the point of being weedy, it's still more cultivated that not, I think. (At least, here it is... maybe it's a weed in another part of the country?)

You call 'em Weeds - I call 'em Wildflowers.

This if funny to me because I was born and raised in Colorado and am still living here. My partner on the other hand was raised in South Carolina. I buy plants for the garden all the time that he tells me are considered weeds in South Carolina. I guess the difference is they don't thrive here in the high desert plain and are less likely to take over the garden. So one person's weeds truly are someone else's flowers.

Be careful that you don't pick poison hemlock thinking that its Queen Anne's Lace. I don't think that I'd want to mess with that in my house. Too toxic.

So picky everyone... The weeds look lovely even if they're painted or toxic. Heehee. They work in floral arrangements, that's all they're trying to say.

Weeds are just plants that one prefers to not have in their garden. Some consider eucalyptus and scottish broom to be weeds, others plant them and enjoy. All is is the eye of the beholder.

Are those pictures of weeds or wildflowers? I've always called these flowers wildflowers...