Impossible to find someone you don’t love flowers. With gardens more popular than ever, the search for the perfect floral arrangement or bouquet has also grown. If you want create a bouquet at home but don’t know how, check out the tips given by Clovis Souza, CEO and founder of Giuliana Flores.
How to Create a Bouquet or Arrangement of Flowers
Putting together a flower arrangement is not only a great idea to decorate the home, but also a way to decorate special events, such as weddings, for example, and also to present to family and friends.
How to choose the flowers for the arrangement
Start combining one or two species to compose a base. After that, add other smaller branches and complementary tones to the base flowers around them to give shape and volume. Leaves and twigs can be added as an added touch.
Pay attention to the container you will use, so that your bouquet matches the vase.
Tip: during sewing, always have a pair of scissors nearby to make all the elements the right size.
How to choose the container
Another element that will make a big difference in the construction of beautiful pieces is the container. When choosing it, the tip is to dare and bet on those that have to do with the environment decoration. Product packaging or mugs, for example, are great options for decorating the kitchen.
Use aquariums as vases is among the latest decoration trends. They are great for decorating living roomgiving a modern touch to the place.
Care for bouquets and arrangements with natural flowers
Among the basic care with flower arrangements, the container. Make sure this container is always clean and that, preferably, have the wide bottleneck according to the flowers you are going to use.
When assembling the bouquet of natural flowers for an arrangement, cut these stems diagonallyto ensure that water absorption takes place longer.
Every time you go to clean the toilet, cut the stems again, eliminating the oldest part of each end. Also, don’t forget to remove all leaves and flowers that are dead and in contact with water.
If possible, change your water daily. A very good tip is, when the flowers only have buds, use cold water.
After a few days, the recommendation is to use warm or room temperature water so that the cut stems absorb water better. All of this should help bring about an effect called «stem hardening».
To conserve those leaves and flowers that are still alive, you can drip some preservative in the water that contains biocides that prevent bacteria from propagating.
Idea: bouquet with light bulbs
Materials
- lightbulb you would throw away
- small bunch of flowers
How to make
With all the items already separated, it’s time to assemble your lamp arrangement.
- Start by cutting the base of the socket very carefully. Give preference, use gloves or some protection to avoid cutting your hand.
- Now that you’ve opened the base of the lamp, it’s time to remove the bulb and thus make room for your plant. To finish this part of the process, file the edge of the socket to remove any burrs from the cut.
- Once the lamp arrangements are ready, it’s time to finish creating this flower decor item. Fill the bottom of the lamp with water or earth, which doesn’t need to be much. Just enough to create a base for your flower stem.
- To finish, just place the flowers inside the lamp arrangement and choose a safe place to leave your new and sustainable decoration item.