When I found this selection of flowers at the market, I thought the colors were pretty and would look nice in a hand-held bouquet. Although I love sunflowers, their arrival in the market, sadly, meant the near end of summer to me. However, they are beautiful none-the-less and I just had to use them in a floral arrangement!
Follow the process these flowers took to become a hand-held bouquet...
Follow the process these flowers took to become a hand-held bouquet...
The first thing to do when doing anything with fresh flowers is to cut the ends of the stems at a 45 degree angle with sharp scissors or a knife. Then, place them into a bucket of water enhanced with some flower preservative.
Next, to make a hand-held bouquet remove all the greenery (leaves) running down the stems of the flowers, leaving the stems pretty bare. This will make the bouquet less bulky and give it a cleaner look.
I was working alone so, I wasn't able to take many photos to show you my process but, here I have arranged the flowers in a round bouquet and bound the stems together with floral tape.
I also added some greenery around the base of the bouquet and wrapped it with more floral tape.
At first, I thought I would use purple ribbon to cover the floral tape and decorate the bouquet but, I didn't like the look of the purple ribbon. I thought it was too "purple-y".
I decided to use burlap ribbon instead.
Not totally liking that look, I decided to wrap a small amount of purple ribbon over the burlap wrap. I tied it in a bow too!
Here is a top view of the bouquet.
I had also added a burlap "collar" to cover the stems at the base of the head of the bouquet.
The flowers I used were sunflowers, purple stock, purple statice, yellow mums and yellow alstromeria.
I just love these colors!
The sunflowers and stock are beautiful.
Here it is...a lovely late summer bouquet, ready to be given to someone to brighten their day!
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