I love flowers!
I love giving flowers!
I love getting flowers!
I love arranging flowers!
And in my 40 plus years as a floral designer I have worked with a lot of stems of flowers!
Simple Steps to Arranging Flowers
This time of year flowers are abundant.
There are many ways to arrange flowers and many tricks to making your own floral creations look professionally arranged.
Long stem flowers are so beautiful and can be found in many of the latest decorating magazines.
Today I am sharing with you a quick and easy solution to displaying your long stemmed floral stems.
Begin with a vase with a medium sized opening, For this tutorial I have chosen a clear cylinder vase.
Using 1/4 inch floral tape place the tape across the top of the vase in rows approximately 1/2 to 3/4 inches apart.
Once your first row of tape has been placed repeat the same process adding a row of tape across the first row creating a grid.
For extra hold wrap a piece of the floral tape around the top securing the tape edged.
And now you are ready to arrange your floral stems.
I am using some beautiful lavender iris.
These are faux iris so I won’t be adding water to the vase but if they were real now would be the time to do so.
Simply begin inserting the stems between the grid formed by the tape pattern.
You can easily arrange many stems and keep them in place as you work.
If using faux florals and a clear vase, it works best to choose stems with life-like looking stems.
Once you have your floral stems placed stems of floral greens can be added to cover the “workings” of your grid.
And your creation is completed and ready to enjoy!
Perfect for a pleasing touch to your room.
Hope you enjoyed these simple step to arranging flowers!
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Love this and it’s so easy, thank you!
Yes it is Sandra! I hope you have fun with it and arrange some beautiful blooms!
Oh, my goodness! How simple — yet so beautiful! Thanks for sharing this amazing trick!!
Thank you for stopping by. This is very simple way to arrange flowers. Stop back to see even more ways in future posts.
Thanks for sharing these great flower arranging tips with us. I recently bought some floral tape and now I know how to use it! Your iris arrangement is lovely. Whenever a dedicated blogger stops posting, thoughts of “something bad” having happened go through my mind and I am sorry to hear that is what occurred with you. For sure, a cancer diagnosis must rock your world but I’m so happy to see you’ve made it through a lot of the journey and pray that the rest is not too tumultuous. We are pleased you are back!
Lori – Thank you for your kind thoughts. I am glad you came by today. I have been keeping up with your wonderful site during my recuperation. All of my wonderful blog friends helped me make it through!
I’m so glad you’re back! I missed your blog emails in my box and would go derictly to the site to see if I was just missing new posts. When there and seeing you had not posted anything new I was afraid something bad had happened. I’m so sorry to hear you have been through so much. I’m happy to hear you have made it through the Chemo and maybe seeing an end in site.You are so talented. I have been inspired by your blog. I’m so glad you are feeling up to posting again. Best of luck with your treatments. You will be in my prayers.
Thank you KImberley – I appreciate you special thoughts and kind comments. I missed sharing with all of you too. But … while I was down my mind was still working and I have some wonderful ideas in my head right now. Just can’t wait to get working on them! 🙂