Hot Winter Floral Arrangement

Fresh flowers are expensive! Have you ordered a bouquet for anyone recently? And those grocery store bouquets, while less expensive, aren’t exactly impressive. But wouldn’t it be nice to warm up the winter months with some hot flowers? What’s a budget-conscious singleton to do?

What if I told you that you could make your own floral shop-quality bouquets at home for a fraction of the cost, simply and easily? All you have to do is reimagine that lackluster grocery store bouquet. I took two $5 bouquets that I got at Walmart and put them together to fill a vintage pitcher of my grandmother’s. Keeping them monochromatic in a hot color makes for a nice bold statement. It seriously looks like something you’d get at a floral shop for three times the cost! Here’s what I used:

Materials:

• 2 small grocery store bouquets (one of mine is roses and the other is budding carnations)
• A vintage porcelain pitcher (you can use any pitcher or vase you have)
• Small sharp knife or very sharp scissors

Instructions:

1. Start by filling your pitcher or vase 3/4 full with water and emptying the contents of the flower fresh packet into the water.
2. Pull off any lower leaves from the stems so they don’t touch the water. Using your knife or scissors, cut each individual flower stem on a diagonal for better water absorption. Cut the stems at different lengths.
3. Place the larger flowers in the vessel first, then fill in around them with the smaller ones.

4. Arrange and rearrange until you get a nicely balanced bouquet that’s visually pleasing.

5. Place the bouquet someplace where you will see it often and it will warm up a cold winter day (on your desk, maybe?)!