How to Make a Bouquet With Ranunculus

Video Transcript

"I'm Allison Scott with Allieflower. We're going to make a bouquet using ranunculus. Materials you'll need, ranunculus, greenery, floral tape, pins, ribbon, floral cutters, and scissors. Your first step in making your bouquet with the ranunculus, you'll take each stem of ranunculus. It'll come like this. You'll strip down all of the greenery that you see and any spots you want like stems that haven't bloomed yet, you'll cut them off at the base of your main stem. So you'll have your individual flowers. This one doesn't look so great so we'll cut it off as well along with pulling off any extra leaves. Now that you've removed all of your greenery, you'll take this together and you'll put each flower together. And you'll make a small, round bouquet. Now that you have all of your flowers together, you'll take your pieces of greenery and you'll put them around the base of the flowers. You're going to make what's called a color. Again you'll strip some of those leaves off the bottom. You have your bouquet, you'll take your tape. Give yourself about a foot to a foot and a half. At the very base of the bouquet where the flowers and greenery are, you'll pinch there and wrap it around. Make sure you get your leaves out of the way so you don't tape them up and in the stems. You're going to take your ribbon (and again just like with your tape), the very base of the bouquet where the flowers are, you're going to wrap it angling down towards the bottom of the stems. I usually do about six inches of ribbon down. You'll cut the ribbon so you have your ribbon on there. You'll fold about a half inch in and tuck it under. You'll take two of your pins. You'll do one at the top of your fold, one the bottom of your fold. Take your floral cutters, cut about two inches from the bottom of your ribbon. You'll clip these off so they're all the same length. I chose the seeded eucalyptus because seeded eucalyptus has the leaves in the berries to kind of make it more of a full bouquet. I'm Allison Scott with Allieflower and this is how you make a bouquet with ranunculus."