Floral arrangement always seemed like an unattainable art that us mere mortals would have to pay the big bucks to enjoy. Turns out there is a secret to creating quick and easy flower bouquets that even novices can create! Floret Flowers Farm shares mini-series each season and one year she shared her “recipe” for easy market-style bouquets and from then on simple floral arrangements began to fill our home and be shared with friends and family.
The gist of Floret’s quick and easy flower bouquets is to have the right ingredients on hand to make the bouquet “recipe.” So what are these ingredients?
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Ingredients for Quick and Easy Flower Bouquets
Focal Flower
This is the “show-stopping” flower that the bouquet will be built around. Things like a sunflower, lily, dahlia, rose, or other larger eye-catching flower. You only need one of these per bouquet.
Disc Flowers
These are your flat, round flowers like zinnias, calendula, daisies, black-eyed susans, echinacea, yarrow. Depending on the color palette you prefer, these can be complementary or contrasting colors to your focal flower.
Spike Flower
These are your tall and pointy flowers like snapdragons, amaranth, celosia, salvia sage, and so on. Spike flowers add some visual interest, height, and texture to your bouquet.
Foliage/Filler
This can be herbs, shrubbery, or other greenery that fills in the bouquet. Consider these the backdrop of the rest of your flowers and filling in the gaps.
Airy Element
These are your wispy and dainty flowers and plants that add a little texture to an arrangement. Things like baby’s breath, laceflower, chamomile, dill, feverfew, flowering oregano, or a vine or budding branch.
Recipe for Quick and Easy Flower Bouquets
Start with your focal flower and a sprig of your foliage in your hand, then begin adding in sets of three each of your disc-type flowers and then three spike flowers. Place one and then do a partial turn of the bouquet, place another, and repeat.
Do the same with some of your foliage and filler. Add in your airy element, then repeat your disc and spikes and foliage. While it may seem a bit random, I promise the overall bouquet will look balanced this way!
Depending on how large of a bouquet you’re aiming for, you can keep repeating this pattern until it is full enough for your needs. But this method even works with small arrangements and posies.
So whether you’re planning next year’s cut flower garden or are looking around your flower garden this summer wondering how to make a decent bouquet, keep an eye out for these types of flowers and try out the Floret recipe and see how easy it is to fill your home with homegrown beauty.