Maureen Gilmer creates three potted rose arrangements that would made fine gifts for the flower lover on your list: - Fill an amber-color pot with enough potting medium that you can bring the rose's rootball just below the rim (figure A). Use a rich, premoistened mix so that there will be no air pockets around the rootball, and be sure to keep the potted rose out of the sun so the leaves don't burn.
- In front of the rose, add sheets of predried moss to cover the soil. The moss will act as a natural mulch, essential since minis don't tolerate heat well.
- Add a cutting or cuttings of a dried plant such as Harry Lauder's walking stick to give the arrangement height and variety. Gilmer also adds a piece of recycled slag at the base of the sitck (B). She points out that it's perfectly acceptable (and creative) to mix roses with unexpected plants in one pot.
- For a cooler arrangement, mix cool-hued minis and small succulents (figure C) in a container.
- Add recycled cobalt-blue glass pieces as your surface mulch (figure D).
Here's another great idea -- maybe for your mom or grandmother: Plant a mini in a teapot for a charming gift (figure E).
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