How to Select and Extend the Life of Your Floral Bouquet

Natural flowers are the best way to bring the outside in and the only thing that can give you gorgeous blooms and wonderful fragrance. The longer you can get your bouquet to last the better and picking the right bouquet can really set the mood for a room or dress up a table. The following are some tips for choosing a bouquet, making arrangements, and prolonging the life of your bouquet.

The most interesting bouquets are those with flowers in a variety of sizes and color. I like to look for brilliant color blooms especially blooms in contrasting color to make the bouquets more interesting. Try pairing up some large bright coloreddahlias that are huge and very fragrant with some elegant tulips or cala lillies in a muted version of the same color. In the fall I like to pair large blooms like chrysanthemums and asters with spiky salvia blooms which add height to a bouquet.

Choosing a container to display your bouquet is just as important as choosing the flowers you want in it. The container you choose can make a bouquet look awkward or really make it pop. If you are going to be making a bouquet from garden flowers choose a container that is either a wide ceramic or enamel, glass vases do not work best with these bouquets becuase garden flowers tend to bemore bushy than long stems. If you have a compact bouquet of flowers like tulips try going with a vase that is geometrically shaped like a rectangle or a squareso that it reinforcesthe impactand continues the lines of the flowers. Roseand bouquets with round flowers look best when in graceful curved vases with narrow necks