How to make inexpensive flower arrangements
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- Rebecca Cole , Floral and Interior Designer
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Rebecca Cole
Floral and Interior Designer
You don’t have to spend a fortune to make a beautiful bouquet. Supermarket flowers can make a sophisticated arrangement if you follow a few simple rules. Floral designer Rebecca Cole shares the tips you’ll need to make a bouquet that looks like a million dollars.
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How to make inexpensive flower arrangements
- Pick a nice, tight color palette. It’s like the colors in your wardrobe. You might have a lot of great colors, but you wouldn’t want to wear them all at the same time. So choose a few colors only and get a lot of them.
- Supermarket flowers often last a really long time.
- For a container, an old antique pitcher is a good choice; but if it leaks, use an insert before filling it with water.
- Condition the water with flower freshener.
- Build the arrangement, starting with a base of green. You will want to strip a lot of the leaves.
- A sophisticated arrangement tip: where the flower starts should be the lip of the vase. You don’t want to see a lot of stem, let the flower be what you see.
- No leaves in the water if you want to make them last longer.
- You want to have different sizes and textures, so start with little flower buds and then add big, fun mums.
- Another tip, find some flowers that have a curved stem and use those for the edges so the flowers curve out. Put the straight-stemmed ones in the center.
- Keeping a nice, tight color palette, you can create a sophisticated look with supermarket flowers.
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