Making a Dried Flower Bouquet
The beauty of a dried flower bouquet lasts longer than that of a fresh flower bouquet. Here’s how to make your own dried flower bouquet.
For this you will need:
· Oasis floral foam
· Assortment of dried flowers
· Ferns
· Seed heads
· Twigs
· Vase
· Dried herbs
· Wire cutters
· Scissors
This would be a triangular arrangement with a flat back and focus on the front and sides. The arrangement shoud be about one and a half times the size of the vase/container.
Place long seed heads, twigs, ferns and strong spiked flowers at the back of the arrangement. In front of them, add filling material like hortensia, statice and tansy that reached to a half of the length of material at the back. Place the focal flowers in the front. These should be the main color of the arrangement. For example, use scabious, carline thistles, and edelweiss in blue-themed arrangements. Keep the shape of the arrangement balanced and in triangular shape by distributing the placement of flowers accordingly. You may add grasses and seed heads for accent.
If required you may add wires to lengthen the stems etc. Remember to place more robust flowers towards the bottom of the arrangement and the lighter flowers towards the top. Try to maintain simple color schemes. Orange-yellow, blues, grays with blues look good. Pinks do not look great with fading greens and yellows.
You may also make a round or an oval arrangement. You will only have to add more fillers. Tie smaller flowers like rhodanthe and xeranthemum in small bunches before you insert them or they might look scattered and out of place.
