an Easy Spring Arrangement

What you need:

• 20 stems (2 bunches)Alstroemeria (Peruvian Lily) $9.98

• 6” Diameter cylinder vase 8” H

• 1/2” Oasis clear water resistant floral tape

• Green Bind Wire or rubber bands

• Floralife Flower Food

• 10” Grapevine Wreath

Tools Used:

• pruning shears

• Wire cutter or heavy Scissors

Steps: 3

Flower Cost:  $9.98

Rated: Easy Arrangement

This is the perfect Spring arrangement for Easter. It’s modern and clean looking, it’s fast, it’s easy and it’s inexpensive. This is an arrangement that can last for 10-14 days or up to 3 weeks! You will want to try to buy the Alstroemeria the day it comes in and take it home and immediately trim the stems a tiny bit with clean shears. (You can wipe the blades of your shears down with alcohol to keep the free of bacteria. Your flowers will last longer if you do this.) Then put the alstroemeria in clean lukewarm water. Lukewarm water can be taken up by the flowers more easily and will help your flowers open up. Water temperature If the flowers are already opened, cooler water will slow down their opening. Wash your vase with soap and warm water or a drop of bleach to kill any bacteria or fungi, then rinse and dry with a clean paper towel. Your flowers can last longer with flower food and if you change their water every 3 days. You can use cool water for your flower changes. Make sure to remove any leaves below the water line or that fall into the water, but even without water changes, Alstroemeria will last a long time, at least a week.

After drying, fill the vase with clean lukewarm water to about 2.5” below the rim. Then add flower food. Carefully dry the rim of the vase so the clear tape will stick to it. After taping two pieces across, run a line of tape around the rim of the vase to secure the cross pieces of tape. The tape is water resistant, but remember, it is not water-proof.

Measure and cut the stems at 15.5” and on a 45 degree angle. The angle helps the flowers take up more water. Take 10 stems and bind the bottom of them by wrapping bind wire around them and twisting it at the back and cutting with heavy shears. Bind wire has wire in the center and its wrapped with a green waxed floral paper, so the wires don’t cut into your stems. (If you don’t have bind wire you could use rubber bands.) Place the bound bunch in the vase at an angle and let it rest on the clear tape. Then do the same for the remaining stems and place them at the opposite side of the vase. You are done. Enjoy!