Chris: This is a great tip! I love the watering can used as a vase ... and those blooms are really gorgeous!! What type of flower is that?

I've been known to stick flowers in any available container that will hold water! I once even used a little ceramic birdhouse that I filled with water for a few daisy stems .

A few containers I currently have holding cut flowers ... all fading at the moment but I thought I'd share some examples to give folks some more ideas of containers that can be used:

A little glass cruet holding rain lilies, gloriosa lily, rose and penta stem:


An old Corningware Tea Kettle holding a Hibiscus bloom:


A little white Pitcher (in the guest bathroom - lighting is awful) holding a fading Phalaenopsis Orchid stem:

Lin, those are all so cute!

The flowers in my picture are peonies. I just stuck them in there intending to move them to a different container later but never did.

Aaah ... Beautiful Peonies! I wish they'd grow in Florida but sadly they aren't a flower we can grow down here. I remember seeing them in upstate N.Y. once when visiting my husbands brother and family and asked my sister in law what those big, beautiful blooms were ... I fell in love with those beauties but didn't remember the name!

They are one of my favorites, and most of them smell wonderful!

That's what I've heard. Aaah ... fragrant Peonies.