Achieve a professional-looking bouquet with our easy instructions.
A classic mixed-flower arrangement doesn’t have to be difficult to create.
Achieve a professional-looking bouquet with our guides to putting together beautiful assortments of blooms to brighten any room.
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Try these flower arrangement ideas to create your own gorgeous bouquets at home.
Full Flower Arrangement
Create a dense mound of flowers using an unseen framework inside a widedecorative bowl.
Mixed DIY Flower Arrangement
Choose an hourglass vase to create a full flower arrangement with various heights.
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How to Arrange a Flower Bouquet
Creating a professional-looking flower arrangementis easier than you think.
Start with flowers in a consistent color scheme, and remove excess leaves or dead petals.
Then, use these easy tricks to create a gorgeous, colorful bouquet.
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Large blossoms give you lots of impact and are easy to arrange.
Easy Three-Tiered Arranging
Long-stem flowers are great for large, full bouquets.
Colorful Flower Arrangement
Dark, vibrant colors in a bouquet add drama.
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Fewer dark flowers gives more contrast.
Rim the arrangement with the wide greens of bupleurem,ivy, andhosta.
you could turn basic blooms into a striking ensemble with a little sprucing up.
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Instead of plunking thebouquet in a vase, use these tips to turnstore-bought flowers into something special.
Use a large, sturdy container to hold the hearty glads.
We used a clean, brightly colored bucket.
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Place the glads in the bucket first, spreading them to cover the back of the arrangement.
Fill in with round clusters ofsedumand Ornithogalum to ground the arrangement.
Balance the arrangement by placing one or two lighter-color flowers on the side with the cabbage heads.
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Easy DIY Flower Arrangement
To successfully mix a large variety of flowers, try the clustering method.
Group like flowers together to create focal points in the arrangement.
Cut the stems fairly short so the flowers are low and spread into one another.
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Achieve a cone-like shape by cutting stems in tiered lengths, with thebigger blossomsgetting shorter stems.
Place the larger flowers in the vase, building a rim around the lip.
Add flowers according to height, ending with long-stemmed fillers in the center.
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Fill in gaps with pale pink, miniature coral, and bright pink antique roses.
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