Picking Spring Flower Arrangement Containers

Series Summary

People have always loved the beautiful colors and scents of flowers, and whether decorating a home, or apologizing for a misdeed, flower arrangements are always a good decision. Creating a beautiful flower arrangement or bouquet takes some degree of skill though and involves an eye for aesthetics, as well as knowledge of cutting and caring for flowers. There are several styles for designing floral arrangements, including Ikebana Japanese style, English Country Garden and the U.S. originated High Style, which includes a variety of tropical flowers. Whatever your style though, fresh flowers can perk up any room and are sure to brighten your day.

Spring time is perfect for flower arrangements because of the abundance of fresh flowers available. In this free video series, our expert will teach you how to make spring flower arrangements for the perfect office or home decor. You will learn how to pick a floral arrangement container, how to pick spring flowers for your bouquet, and how to prepare the flowers for the arrangements. You will also learn how to add form, mass and filler flowers to your flower arrangement, as well as how to care for a spring flower arrangement to keep it lasting as long as possible. If you love flowers or flower arranging, let our expert show you how to make a beautiful spring flower arrangement.

Video Transcript

"My name is Julie Kay Robinson, on behalf of Expert Village. Today, we're going to be making a spring bouquet. Now, this first step is to select your container. I have a number of different containers on my table. And, to choose a container usually it's pretty easy. You can make a spring bouquet in almost anything. A round container will always work beautifully. You could use just a simple vase, that would always work very nice. You could use this, but it is a little contemporary. So, I would probably stay away from this one. But, today what we're going to use is a bubble bowl. This is going to be really nice. Because, we're going to add some elements into the water. And, the elements will be reflected into the water. Which, is very nice. So, today we're going to use the bubble bowl. And, we're going to be adding curly willow to the water. So, it will look very very nice. So, this is the first step in how to create a spring bouquet."