No need for floral expertise or expense either. An old jar, bottle or of course a bud vase can contain one flower.

Whether you select a lily, a single rose, one gerbera daisy, or even a big fat chrysanthemum, just one is enough to liven up your indoor landscape.

Here's How to Select a Fresh Cut Flower:
Make sure the flowers' blooms or buds are not bruised or browning. The foliage should be green without yellowing leaves. The water the flower is sold in should smell clean. If it smells bad, chances are the flowers are old.

Buy flowers when they are closed or just partially open. Many flower varieties, such as lilies are multi-bloomed. That is, the flower has several blooms on its one stem. Try to select a single stem with one bloom open and the others closed. That way, you will be able to watch the additional blossoms open and enjoy the flower longer.

Here's How to Create a Bud Vase:
A single flower in a bud vase is a perfect way to decorate with flowers and not empty your wallet.

Materials:

• One narrow necked bud vase, bottle or jar
• One single flower
• Approximately five stems of bear grass or other linear foliage
• One to three stems of greenery for the rim of the bud vase
• Floral preservative
• Floral clippers

Step 2 - Cut the flower stem to about twice the height of the vase. Strip the flower's stem so that none of the leaves will be covered by water. Place the flower in the bud vase.

Step 3 - To give added support and beauty, add stems of linear bear grass or other linear foliage. Cut the foliage so that they are just slightly taller than the flower.

Step 4 - To give the bud vase an elegant, balanced look, insert greenery at the rim of the bud vase.