Adding a touch of effortless charm and timeless beauty to your living space can be achieved through the art of arranging dried flower bouquets. Unlike fresh flowers, dried blooms maintain their allure without needing regular watering, ensuring their appeal lasts.
Prepare Your Materials
- Select a wide range of flowers, greenery (leaves), focal blossoms, and secondary blooms for a balanced arrangement.
- Ensure that you have a pair of sharp scissors or secateurs to trim stems precisely.
- Choose an appropriate vase that complements your chosen bouquet size and style.
Selecting the Right Vase
Large Vase
Choose (or purchase) flowers with strong and long stems to harmonize with the vase’s stature. Ensure that you have a flower as the centerpiece, coupled with some understated secondary flowers to accentuate its importance.
Medium Vase
The medium sized vase allows your creativity to flow in terms of floral arrangement. There are three ways as to how you could arrange your bouquet. One, use a mix of striking focal flowers alongside subtle secondary blooms, filling gaps with neutral tones to enhance texture and depth. Two, have a bouquet of the same flowers (like roses) altogether. Lastly, you can use single blooms like lilies or sunflowers to create a centerpiece.
Small Vase
With a small vase, your floral arrangements are not limited as well. It is recommended that you use a few bold, contrasting blooms coupled with some greenery to amplify the impact. The other option is simply having a single bloom.
Arranging Your Bouquet
- Before you begin arranging your bouquet, sort your flowers into groups by type. By doing so, you can have a clearer picture to the kind of floral arrangement you would like to have.
- Trim the stems of your flowers to fit your chosen vase, varying lengths for a balanced arrangement. Any length that is 1.5 to 2 times the height of the vase is highly recommended.
- Use structural elements (like foliage) to layer before adding filler flowers. This is done to ensure that the bouquet can take shape and have volume.
- Strategically place focal blooms according to your display preference—whether front-facing, panoramic, or asymmetrical—to suit your personal style.
- Lastly, adjust your foliage to fill any gaps in order to achieve visual harmony. Step back to admire your creation, making final adjustments for a polished presentation.
Enhance Your Arrangement
- If you are using a single flower bloom, try to include greenery so that there is a balance.
- Learn to arrange stems, or flowers of different heights. This allows for depth and visual interest to be enhanced.
- Utilize different flower textures. This will enable for sophistication, or richness to take place.
- If you want to have a rustic twist, you can consider wrapping the stems with twine (especially those that are in display with transparent vases).
- Make sure your vases are kept away from direct sunlight or water to maintain floral longevity.
Maintaining Your Dried Flowers
To preserve color and form, make sure your bouquet is protected from direct sunlight. From time to time, remove the dust from the dried flowers, standing one meter away, using a hairdryer on a cool setting.