A Beginner’s Guide to Making Flower Arrangements
Here are the basics you need to know to make a classy floral arrangement yourself with inexpensive flowers. It’s easy and fun, I promise!
Get some flowers
Head to your local grocery store, farmers market or florist and grab some flowers! You will need some greenery, some filler flowers (we’ll get to what that means later), and a main flower that will be the star of your arrangement.
We love Trader Joe’s for budget-friendly flowers, but don’t sweat it if you don’t have one nearby. Regardless of where you get your flowers, they’re gonna look great.
2. Process the flowers
Prep your flowers for arranging by pulling off stems and leaves that would fall below the water line. Cut the stems 1-2 inches at a diagonal under running water.
Build a base of greenery
Incorporating greenery as the base of your arrangement will elevate your flowers by an order of magnitude. I like to use 2-3 varieties of greenery with 2-3 stems of each. This provides the base structure to build the rest of the arrangement.
Tip: Using a turntable to arrange flowers can help the arrangements look even from all angles.
Add in your filler flowers
These stems aren’t the star of the show but they add texture, color and sometimes scent to the arrangement. With filler stems, you are trying to get the blooms to hit at the height between the tallest greenery and the stems around the lip of the vase, so they “fill” the gaps.
Tip: Using a turntable to arrange flowers can help the arrangements look even from all angles.
Add the main blooms
Add your primary flowers as the big finale! These are the stars of the show. Place them last so that they are at the forefront of the arrangement. That’s it! Feast your eyes on your elegant, professional-looking flower arrangement. It’s personal, it’s budget-friendly, it’s beautiful. What’s not to love?
