My flowers are still blooming! What to do?

**Madame Leota** · 09-28-2010,07:30 PM

I've never had much of a green thumb and normally long before now, the flowers in my front flower beds are long gone. Well, this year something changed and everything I planted grew and grew and is still going strong! I plan to start setting up my outdoor display on Friday but it just won't look right with bright pink and yellow flowers everywhere. At the same time, I don't have the heart to just rip them out of the ground and destroy them. What would you do?

**Scatterbrains** · 09-28-2010,07:53 PM

Enjoy the flowers...

**Gothikim** · 09-28-2010,07:55 PM

Originally Posted by Scatterbrains

Enjoy the flowers...

Then pinch their little heads off on the 30th

Would they look good (read "spooky") dried? If so, cut 'em, hang 'em, and put them in a vase somewhere!

**buckaneerbabe** · 09-28-2010,08:08 PM

Well if their perennials I would dig them up and plant in pots until after Halloween then replant them. But If you have annuals, I would pull them out then plant something else for the other holidays.

**skullnbones** · 09-28-2010,08:13 PM

this was my dilemma this weekend. i have some beautiful cannas that stand about 3 feet tall and i didn't have the heart to rip them out. so they are still there among my tombstones...i actually like it.
i cut back the perennials and added some creepy cloth and my skeletons. what's not to love about that combo?

**propmistress** · 09-28-2010,08:20 PM

Cut the flowers and create beautiful flower arrangements for inside your home/office or give them to family and friends. Cutting the flowers may even result in more flowers for you to enjoy after Halloween

Cover the flowers in cobwebs or with cloth

Create an actual backdrop behind your props and before your flowers with black plastic

Incorporate the flowers into your theme... btw: what is your theme?

Use props and lighting to direct attention elsewhere

Or as Scatter said don't worry about and just enjoy the flowers