If you have a garden, you probably enjoy displaying your flowers in your home. I have many small vases and bottles with narrow necks, so that I can pop just one or two flowers into them.

When I come indoors after my morning walk around my garden, I usually bring what I call my "Flower of the Day." It is the flower that has really caught my eye that day and that I want to look at close-up. It may be a single daylily in summer, or in early spring, a daffodil that has fallen into the mud and needs to be rinsed off and dripped dry in the sink.

In late winter, it is a first precious hellebore or one or two tiny winter aconites that come with me indoors. In summer, if I have cut a short-stemmed bunch of something that is blooming prolifically, I may use scrunched-up chicken wire as an anchor for the stems in a shallow bowl. If I have a short or no-stem single flower, I may just let it float in water in a wine glass or bowl. This is my preferred method for hellebores for example. I cut them with short stems and float them in a shallow bowl of water and they last longer than in a vase.

In summer, if I have just a few long-stemmed flowers or branches from a flowering shrub, I will put them in a tall bottle or vase with a narrow neck to keep them upright. I may add something else like foliage stems from coleus or herbs as filler to make the arrangement fuller.

If I have a fistful of short-stemmed blooms like marigolds or zinnias, I will soak a piece of oasis in water, cut it to fit a low vase or dish, and push the flower stems into it so the oasis is covered with blooms. It is fun to experiment with anchors when showcasing garden flowers.

This is Moya Andrews and today we focused on flower anchors.