Bouquets of fresh flowers will add warmth and comfort to your home atmosphere, and will also help to please your loved ones. To create a beautiful bouquet, it is not necessary to go to a florist, you can do it yourself. How to make a bouquet of flowers yourself? It is enough to know only the basics of this skill and practice a little. Do not be afraid to experiment and then you can create beautiful and unique floral compositions.
Flowers and colors
To begin with, you need to decide on the color you need and choose the basic flowers that you want to see in your bouquet (these can be lilies, roses, carnations, irises, etc.). Rely on your taste and do not look at others, you can safely use all your imagination. Harmonious and elegant will look like one-color bouquets, made up of flowers with different saturation shades of the same color. If there is disharmony in the bouquet, it is easily correctable. In it you just need to add white flowers, because they are combined with almost any shades.
It is important to remember that not all flowers are compatible with each other. It is necessary to consider this nuance, so that the bouquet of flowers is preserved as long as possible. So, daffodils, roses, carnations and lilies of the valley, as a rule, will not get along with most other species, lilies will oppress cornflowers, poppies and daisies, daffodils co-exist with tulips. However, there are such plants that are quite acceptable in any bouquets and can prolong the life of other flowers, including twigs or geraniums.
In the composition, you can also add stems of deadwood, greens or other small "animating" flowers. In addition, often the bouquet is complemented with lace, ribbons, plastic butterflies and other decorative elements. Completeness of your composition can give a well-chosen elegant packaging. Just remember that your bouquet is not a Christmas tree, so do not be too zealous with different ornaments.
The form
Round bouquets. They can be composed of both colors of different lengths, and the same. To assemble such a bouquet, you must hold the center flower in one hand, and add the following flower one by one. Note that in such a bouquet the stems of the flowers touch at the place where they are tied, therefore each next flower needs to be applied a little obliquely (as if in a spiral). As a result, the stems must project a circle when you put them on the table. Do not forget to add the arrangement greens in the process of composing the bouquet. When it is fully ready, tie it in place of contact of the stems.
One-sided bouquets. They are collected from plants that have different lengths of peduncles, so that only the outer side of the bouquet is "filled". In this case, longer plants are placed behind, short ones are in front, they are original tiers. The greens for arrangement most often fill the bouquet and fall from it. In the center of the bouquet are placed the brightest and largest flowers, the rest are located at the edges.
Linear bouquets are a kind of subspecies of one-sided ones. They are made up of several plants, to which add stubbly stems, lace branches and other elements that make a bouquet that is distinguished by its graphical character.
Boutonniere. Under this name there is a tiny bouquet, usually about a decimeter in diameter, consisting of freshly cut flowers decorated with hats, hairstyles, dresses, tables, etc. Most often they consist of one large flower or several small ones on the background of ornamental foliage. Boutonniere try to make of long not fading colors and leaves, ensuring that the first look fresh, and the second - glossy. To increase the life time of the boutonniere, its components (leaves and flowers) are kept in water for at least four hours before compilation. After that, the ends of the stems are dipped in molten stearin to prevent the secretion of the juice. This type of bouquets is fastened with a thin wire, which is then masked with a narrow ribbon or ribbon. If the boutonniere is made of roses, then the bud of the flower is separated from the stem, the wire is placed in the lower part of the bud and then be stripped off with braid.