How to Make, Attach and Store a Tussy-Mussy Bouquet

Tussy Mussy baby bouquets are miniature bouquets that serve as a decoration, heirlooms and gifts. Learn which flowers to use, how to make them, attach them and store them.

Tussy Mussy Bouquet Supplies

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Single stem flowers that dry well. Single stem green leaves. Large Vase for flower and green supplies.

Small vase for each participant. Scissors and pruning shears. Fertilized water. Ribbon. Paper lace doilies.

Best Flowers and Greens for Tussy Mussy Bouquets

Because a Tussy Mussy bouquet is usually saved as a small dried flower heirloom, using flowers and greens that have a pleasant scent and dry well without fading or shrinking will ensure a beautiful and lasting bouquet.

The best flowers to use in a Tussy Mussy bouquet include baby's breath, rose buds, carnations, camellias, lavender, gardenia, statice.

The best greens to use for Tussy Mussy bouquet are evergreen or herbal and include sweet bay leaf, camellia leaves, holly, mistletoe, and lemon balm, mint, ivy.

Select single stems of both flowers and greens bought from a florist or cut from your yard and place them in a large wide mouth central vase.

Avoid using flowers that drop petals such as chrysanthemum or are too large.

Creating Your Tussy Mussy Bouquet

Step 1 : Cut a hole in a paper lace doily by folding it in half and snipping it to make an x. Widen the x as needed to fit the Tussy Mussy bouquet stems you select in the next steps.

Step 2: Select one large stem for your central flower, typically a rosebud for your Tussy Mussy bouquet.

Step 3: Select three fragile stems of delicate flowers like baby's breath or statice and space equally around the central stem of the Tussy Mussy bouquet.

Step 4: Select five larger stems of flowers like carnations and space equally around the fragile flowers in the Tussy Mussy bouquet.

Step 5: Select additional fragile stems to even out the Tussy Mussy bouquet.

Step 6: Select three to five green leaf stems and place equally spaced around the Tussy Mussy bouquet.