Arranging Grocery Store Flowers - Family Plot

Master Gardener Mary Heim shows how to take a grocery store flower bouquet and turn it into a beautiful flower arrangement. First, when you get home with your flowers cut a small amount off the stem and put them in water. Grocery store bouquets often have three or five large blooms that will be the anchors of your arrangement. Place them in your vase after cutting the stems to different heights. Different heights add interest. You should remove all the leaves that will be under water in the vase. For a stem that has many flowers, remove some of the flowers, it will look more natural. Mary often buys two bouquets to get a different selection of flowers or colors. She also will use some greenery either from the grocery store or from plants in her yard. After a few days when the flowers start to age She recommends taking the flowers out of the vase re-cutting and rearranging them. Also, change the water in your vase daily. This will keep the flowers fresh longer. The more you do it the better your arrangements will look.
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Thank you for making this video! My husband surprised me with two large bouquets from the grocery store last week and I could not arrange them well enough to save my soul! Whenever I do have fresh flowers--from an inexpensive grocery store bouquet or a professionally arranged one from a florist--I always reorganize them when some start to wilt. I take everything apart, throw away the ones that are dying/dead, recut the remaining stems and put them into a smaller vase with fresh water. My flowers usually last 2+ weeks using this method. I've been able to keep them alive a long time, and now I'll be able to make them look their best thanks to this video!

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Thanks for watching and your kind comments!