Bring spring indoors by brightening rooms with flowers, including entryways, kitchens, living rooms or even bathrooms. It's a great way to create beauty in everyday living.
Use any cereal bowl in the kitchen and a bundle of store bought flowers, or ones grown. Other creative ideas for bowl alternatives include decorative platters, vintage vases, trays, outdoor containers, buckets or pails, rustic wooden bowls, pitchers, Mason jars, teapots, boots, old shoes, antique sugar bowls, wine bottles, watering cans, mugs or shallow containers for floating flower heads.
For an extra texture and depth in final projects, look for small tree or shrub branches and ornamental grasses found in yards to add intricacies into the arrangement. Then, place the newly created floral bowl in a place where a burst of joy is most needed. Enjoy!
Supplies:
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Bundle of flowers (about 24 stems), plus floral food packet
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Branches and ornamental grasses found in yard
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6-inch bowl
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Floral shears (or garden clippers, kitchen shears, craft scissors)
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12-inch square cut chicken wire
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Wire cutters
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Garden gloves (to protect hands when forming chicken wire)
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Clear floral tape (Scotch tape will do)
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Lazy Susan (also called a manual dumbwaiter) to easily move arrangement and work from all sides
Preparation And Assembly:
First, prepare the mechanics. The mechanics are the non-floral elements used to assemble a floral arrangement. These materials will act as a grid in which the flowers are built into to hold each stem in its place.
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Wearing garden gloves, cut chicken wire roughly into a 12-inch square. Loosely form the chicken wire into a ball and place inside the bowl.
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Use clear floral tape to make an X shape over the top of the bowl to hold the chicken wire securely into place. This will also give extra support when adding the floral elements later.
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Fill the bowl with water and mix in a flower food packet, if flowers came with one.
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Begin to arrange floral elements into the bowl. As a general rule, start with the strongest, thickest stems and end with the most delicate stems. A good idea is to start with branches, then the largest base flowers followed by taller focal flowers, and finally delicate stems, grasses and wispy greens.
Care Tips:
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When first bringing home flowers, clip the ends and add to clean water for 1 hour up to 24 hours. Then, when ready to build the arrangement, the flowers will be in tip-top shape.
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Replace the flowers' water every two days to expand the life of the arrangement.
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Do not let any leaves or other foliage sit in the water as it will dirty the water faster.
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Remove dead flowers as they fade to make an arrangement look fresh longer.
If desired, download and print a Floral Bowl Arrangement guide found at at SilvertoothHome.com/store.