Flower Recipes - Bouquet of Bunches

A Bouquet of Bunches

Flowers help to create an ambiance at home not duplicated by other types of décor. That's why flowers can bring importance to any room. Many people shy away from flowers because of expense and inexperience in arranging them. However, many grocery stores and flower shops now sell moderately priced flowers, and if you know a few tricks of the trade you too can arrange flowers easily and stylishly. Many arrangements can be created with simple design techniques. One such method works especially well for wide-mouthed containers. These containers often present a problem, as flowers don†t easily stay in place. The solution is making a floral tape grid over the opening of the wide-mouthed container and then inserting small flower bunches into the grids' holes. In just a few minutes the container is successfully and almost effortlessly filled with beautiful blooms. This flower recipe is styled with white iris and white standard carnations. Monochromatic themes always deliver color harmony while petal texture and shape create interest. However, almost any flower variety or color scheme will work using this design method. Half the fun is creating your own personal floral style and working with what looks terrific in your space.
	You will need: Wide Mouthed Container, (approximately 8-inches in diameter) 18 Stems White Standard Carnations 18 Stems White Iris 12 Rubberbands Floral Clippers Scissors Floral Food One-Half Inch Wide Floral Bowl Tape
	Step 1: Make a grid of squares by first running four evenly spaced lines of floral bowl tape over the top of the wide-mouthed container. Then run four more lines of tape perpendicular to the first four strips.
	Step 2: Fill the container with water that has been treated with floral food.
	Step 3: Cut all the flowers to approximately 7-inches in length and then remove all the greenery from their stems.
	Step 4: With 3 stems of the same kind of flower, arrange a small bouquet in your hand. Keep the heads of the flowers at the same height. Now rubberband the bouquet together so that the rubberband rests just under the flowers blooms. Do this for all the flowers. A total of six bunches of carnations and six bunches of iris should be created.
	Step 5: Cut two bunches of carnations to approximately 5.5 inches in length. Place these bunches in the center of the wide-mouthed container. Cut the other four bunches of carnations to approximately 4.5 inches in length; then insert them at the quarters of the container.
	Step 6: Fill in the gaps with the six bunches of iris.

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