Geraniums and pelargoniums never go out of style and are beautiful additions to your interior designs. Homemade flower displays will bring your rooms to life and are a great way to express your personality, as well as being a cheaper option for your home decor. The experts at Pelargonium for Europe (PfE) have put together some ideas for colourful homemade decorations featuring geraniums that are easy to make yourself and will look beautiful too!
Nautical flowering geranium tower
This crafted asymmetric three-storey tower is made of flower pots in seaside blue tones, filled to the brim with pure white geraniums to create a summery display. This idea is both decorative and simple and can be made in just a few steps, it is a breeze.
You will need:
- Three flower pots in assorted sizes,
- A tin of blue paint or spray paint
- A wooden bar with a square section
- A saw
- Glue sticks
- Hot glue gun
- Multi-purpose compost
- Three geraniums of assorted sizes
Here’s how to make it:
Clean the pots, paint them in different shades of blue and leave them to dry.
Cut two lengths from the wooden bar. One should be the same length as the height of your largest pot. The other should be the same length as the height of your medium-sized pot. Place the longer piece of wood on its end as a support in the largest of the three pots and fill the pot with soil. Apply hot glue to the upper end of your wooden bar and to the rim of the largest pot where you wish to place your medium pot. Glue the medium pot in place so it rests on both the rim of the largest pot and the end of the wooden bar.
Once the hot glue is dry, repeat the process with the medium pot and glue the smallest pot in place. This creates a three-storey tower. Finally, plant the pots with geraniums. Tip: To prevent your tower from swaying, choose as large a pot as possible for the base pot.
Upcycled floral bedside table
The cheerful flowering and fragrant geraniums make breakfast in bed a delight for all the senses. An upcycled bedside table made simply from coat hangers provides an extra slice of comfort in your cosy sleeping corner. This original homemade piece of furniture will offer you space for coffee or a book, as well as a vase of geraniums to wake up to.
You will need:
- Four wooden coat hangers with a bar,
- Two pieces of board,
- A tin of paint or spray paint
- Cordless drill
- Screws
- Sandpaper
- A saw.
Here’s how to make it:
First, remove the hooks from your coat hangers.
Place the hangers opposite each other with the hook holes touching to determine the size of your table’s shelves. Measure the distance across both hangers.
Saw each of your boards into a square of this size. On one hanger, pre-drill holes at either end and in the centre. Repeat this with the other three hangers.
Take one board and drill a hole at each end on the board’s edge. These holes must correspond with the outer holes in your hangers. Repeat on the opposite side of the board. This will make your upper shelf.
On the second board repeat the previous step, then add two more holes in the central section of the board’s edge. These holes should correspond with the holes in the centre of your hangers. This will be your lower shelf. Sand both boards lightly to remove any rough edges. This also helps the paint adhere better. Spray the hangers and boards in your chosen colour and leave them to dry.
Once the paint is dry, screw the lower and upper shelves in place. Add geraniums and bring your upcycled bedside table to life!
Boho Floral Wall Hanging
This boho-style wall hanging makes a stunning focal point in any room and is the perfect hanging shelf for a geranium display.
You will need:
- A wooden branch (It should be slightly longer than the intended width of the finished hanging.)
- Wooden Board
- Drill
- Strong jute twine
- Macramé yarn
- Wooden beads
- Scissors
- Geraniums and other decorations to place on the shelf.
Here’s how to make it:
Cut a length of jute string and tie it to the ends of our branch. This loop will later be used to hang your wall display.
Cut the twine and macramé yarn to your desired length, then loop them over the branch in bundles of three to five lengths.
Pass the ends of the twine or yarn through the loop you have made and tighten. Weave braids from some bundles and finish each braid with a knot. For others, let the individual strings hang loosely.
Tie other bundles together at different points down their length with different coloured twine or string them together with beads.
Saw the board to the width you’d like your wall hanging to be (remember to make it slightly shorter than your branch) and drill a hole in all four corners.
Divide the outer two bundles and put half of the strings through each of the pre-drilled holes. Then tie the strings under the board so the knots hold it level and in place.
Finally, suspend up your wall hanging using the hanging loop and dress the shelf with flowering geraniums for a blooming wall decoration.
Shell flower pot
Create this nautical centrepiece with just a flower pot and seashells and glue.
What a beautiful way to display a noble geranium with a coastal vibe.
Easel flower stand
A charming homemade idea for your garden: with an easel, a wooden frame and a flower box, you can create an original flower stand to beautifully display geraniums. Tip: This vibrant ‘painting’ works especially well with hanging geraniums.
For lots more decoration ideas and information about geraniums, visit www.meine-geranien.de.
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Pelargonium for Europe
Pelargonium for Europe is the marketing initiative of the European geranium growers Dümmen Orange, Elsner PAC, Florensis / P. van der Haak Handelskwekerij, Geranien Endisch, Selecta One and Syngenta Flowers. The initiative was founded in 2016 with the aim of promoting geranium sales in Europe and securing them in the long term. The campaign now runs in 22 countries. In Germany, Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland, the marketing activities are supported by the EU as part of the “Europe in Bloom” campaign.
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