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Getting colourful: Sarah Raven’s Jewel Vases, £23.95 for a set of three, will add a blast of gorgeous colour to my collection of bud vases (collection being a very loose term, I have about 3 clear glass ones but I love them). I’m hopeless at flower arranging, so a quick cheat is to pop some single stems (maybe go mad and add a sprig of rosemary) into a group of little vases and bingo, you have a lovely table decoration. On the rare occasion these days when I do receive flowers (it was an occupational hazard as a glossy magazine editor, very spoilt I know), rather than binning them when the majority have gone brown, I’ll snip off any last blooms that are still quite fresh and give them another lease of life in these, wee little beauties.