Arranging Grocery Store Flowers

Master Gardener Mary Heim shows how to take a grocery store flower bouquet and turn it into a beautiful flower arrangement. First, when you get home with your flowers cut a small amount off the stem and put them in water. Grocery store bouquets often have three or five large blooms that will be the anchors of your arrangement. Place them in your vase after cutting the stems to different heights. Different heights add interest. You should remove all the leaves that will be under water in the vase. For a stem that has many flowers, remove some of the flowers, it will look more natural. Mary often buys two bouquets to get a different selection of flowers or colors. She also will use some greenery either from the grocery store or from plants in her yard. After a few days when the flowers start to age She recommends taking the flowers out of the vase re-cutting and rearranging them. Also, change the water in your vase daily. This will keep the flowers fresh longer. The more you do it the better your arrangements will look.

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