How to Make Inexpensive Flower Arrangements

Flowers add a luxuriant feel to a home, provide visual stimulation for the eye, and show thoughtfulness when given as a gift. Create flower arrangements inexpensively with some tips and tricks to recycling previously used flowers and obtaining household containers to use as vases. Use your creativity to make a small bouquet pop with color and festivity.

Find Inexpensive Supplies

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  Look for inexpensive blooms. Flowers such as carnations or chrysanthemums are less expensive than their rose and calla lily cousins. Include fillers such as baby's breath, green leaves or ferns. Get larger blooms for the main focus in flower arrangements, and smaller blooms to accentuate an arrangement.

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  Reuse flowers. Take flowers from previously made arrangements to create new designs or collect plants and flowers from outdoors. Cut flowers with long stems and place them in a container with water to keep them fresh.

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  Get a container to keep the arrangement. Get creative and use household items or purchase containers at a thrift shop. Teapots, water glasses, pitchers and bowls all make low-cost bases for flower arrangements. Pick a container large enough to include all of the pieces for the flower design.

Create an Arrangement

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  Fill the chosen container 2/3 full of water. Create a workspace by laying out flowers and filler plants on plastic sheeting. Mix flower food according to manufacturer's directions and add to water.

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  Trim any foliage off stems that fall below the water line. Leaves and blooms can cause an unpleasant odor if kept for long periods of time in standing water. Keep greenery above the water line on stems to keep blooms fresh longer.

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  Cut the base of the stem before placing into the water container. Keep unused flowers in water and store in a refrigerator. Arrange the flowers to taste, combining a mixture of larger blooms for the dominating piece and smaller blooms for the secondary materials. Place filler greenery in and around arrangement.