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Decorating With Garden Plant Stands
Decorating with garden plant stands is an inexpensive yet elegant way to add charm to a deck patio or porch. This is because plant stands allow you to arrange plants at different heights and also place them in a more artful way in general. One of the nicest effects is getting spiked plants mixed with trailing plants and creating a cascade of green. This effect is very rich looking if it is located in a hallway or a lobby.

Using the Rule of Three can help you arrange plants around a plant stand. This means that you should place two plants on the stand and another in a pot or planter nearby or that you should have one plant placed on the stand and two others in pots arranged nearby. This is a Japanese rule of floral arranging that can help you achieve the beautiful asymmetry that is associated with the most compelling of outdoor spaces.

Another key to using garden plant stands is to group similar plants together. For instance you can choose a tiered or waterwheel shaped garden plant stand to group herbs together. This is also a good idea because it means that you no longer have to stoop to collect the flavors for your next culinary masterpiece. You can also hang herbs from a basket in your kitchen for a very elegant effect.

The other good thing about garden plant stands is that it gets plants up off the ground and helps you create a serene and peaceful space. Flowers and other foliage can be meditated upon at eye level instead of beng tripped over in pots at ground level.

If you anticipate moving your plants in and out of doors at all try and purchase the type of garden plant stands that have wheels. Some of them are designed like little wheelbarrows with wheels only on the front two legs of the stand which makes them easy to trundle around. You can also get tall ones with a set of wheels that look good either in or out of doors. There are lovelyones made out of wrought iron like this that exist.

Most garden plant stands are very affordable with the most expensive models running at the most $40.00. However it is much more common to find them for less than twenty-five dollars. You can also get great deals on vintage garden plant stands at yard sales and also online on the auction sites.

Serve up an elegant graduation tea party complete with old style tea sandwiches, canapé, classical music, and amusing treats like tassel pasta and edible diplomas.

A Graduation Tea Party should be a short sweet and elegant affair where many guests are invited. It is one of the few tea parties where it is quite common to have as many to thirty guests to hundred guests at one time. Of course all of this depends on the number of guests that you want to invite at one time.

As graduation tea parties are quite large in number, it is usual to serve mostly sandwiches to save on mess and preparation time. A soup and Jell-O salads are also served to round out the meal a bit.

On the invitation ask you guests to dress casually but formally. Make it clear that classic music will be on the menu as well as several classic games of strategy and skill – poker, chess, checkers and croquet in the back yard. Winners of these games can expect to receive small party favors such as tiny silver picture frames, pens and bookmarks,

The design theme for this party should be black and white to match the formality of the occasion of graduation. A nice touch is to display photographs of all of the other graduates in the family on the walls and pictures from old yearbooks. One contest that could be held is “worst year book “ photograph for which the winner wins some kind of booby prize.

As this party is very grown up, you should use your very best silver tea service and crystal bowls. Square black and white plates also add an interesting touch to a staid looking table. White Oxford China with your laciest white tablecloths would be best for giving the whole affair a formal yet humorous flair.

If you like you could also attempt to make an ice sculpture of your school’s mascot or have on ordered up professionally. You can also give this type of party of personal touch by offering napkins or souvenir matchbooks engraved with a favorite saying or a motto.

Of course you shouldn’t forget the cake. You can get cake molds in the shape of graduation albums and all sorts of objects that relate to graduation ceremonies.