A couple of months ago, I asked one of my best friends Lindsay, if she would help me put together a spring floral arrangement for the blog. She creates the most beautiful stuff, and she’s been doing floral arranging for years. Some of her most recent jobs included tutoring students on floral arranging, working as a florist at Foxglove Floral in Provo, and doing florals for private events. So basically, she is a wealth of knowledge!
When she agreed, I was so excited. I knew she would create something amazing, and that she would be able to describe it in a simple, straightforward way, since she taught students for so long.
Having said all of that, here are four steps to create a beautiful spring arrangement:
Step 1: Start with the greenery. Trim them as you go to the desired lengths, to help them with water absorption. Place them in a vase/vessel (this arrangement looks really pretty in a shallow vessel with a wide mouth) with a generous amount of water in it, in a way that looks pretty as a base to you. Don’t overthink it. We used two different types of eucalyptus. If you put them in a grid pattern, they will help hold in the other flowers you will add later.
Step 2: Add the mass flowers, that will take up the bulk of the space in your arrangement. We added blue hydrangeas. Trim them to their desired lengths, and then add them around the base of your vase, so they are almost resting on the edge. For this arrangement we used three, so it can be viewed from any angle.
Step 3: Add the focal flowers. The focal flowers we used were pretty, pink tulips! Trim them to their desired lengths and then add them in the vase, filling them into open spaces, and just placing them where you think they’ll look nice.
Step 4: Add the filler flowers. We used feverfew for ours. These are little fillers, that you can add into any little spaces that you’d like to be filled, or could just use a little something extra. Trim them to their desired lengths before you add them.
Something Lindsay and I kept coming back to while we were working on our arrangements, was how simple and approachable floral arrangements really are. The medium (flowers) that you are working with is already so beautiful, that you can’t go too wrong with any arrangement. So just get started, play around with the flowers and it’ll turn out awesome.
How cute is she??
When Lindsay took the bouquet home she added a couple of ranunculus too. So that’s always an option. But it still looks so beautiful without them!
**Also, pro tip, Trader Joe’s has awesome and inexpensive flowers. They come in little individual bundles, so you can buy exactly what you are looking for and they’re pretty affordable.
My kids love when I tell them stories. They beg for it! And I remember asking the same of my parents when I was growing up. There’s something so magical about snuggling up with someone you love and letting your imagination run wild as you embark on a make-believe adventure.