Finishing Vase Flower Arrangements

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Susan Paxton for Expert Village. Today we are talking about decorating with flowers. We have been talking about the silk flowers and different things you can do with those. We are talking about fresh flowers right now, doing different things with them. This beautiful vase of roses could be for your entryway or your foyer and they are not that hard to do if you need "how to" books we have talked about "how to" books and how to get it put together. One of the things that I would really like to stress is to keep the water clean for your flowers. If you are using fresh flowers, you need to keep the water fresh. What I have done is before I did anything I put water in the vase that I wanted to use. I added greens. I added some filler, this beautiful misty that has just a touch of purple in it to set off the red and then added my roses by layer, when you add your roses you have your tallest one and then the next tallest ones and then shorter ones around the edge. It is not that hard to arrange roses. With this little topiary arrangement that could be used in any room, I have chosen a little brass bowl for it to sit in and added the floral foam and actually took waterproof tape and taped down the floral foam so that it will not tip in the bowl because this is going to be top heavy so it will not tip in the bowl. I have added some greens of different kinds. I have put in some lemon leaf and I have some eucalyptus and then I took I believe there is eight stems in this topiary tree and I took a twisty tie and tied them together at the top and then did a french wrap with the ribbon to add just a nice dimension to the flowers and it added an extra touch or embellishment. I put a nice bow at the top making sure that I covered my twist tie so it does not show. I added a few other flowers and some other greens to add some dimension and a special touch to it. This kind of arrangement could be used anywhere."