Red and Blue Flower Arrangements
To become skilled at making floral arrangements, you need to practice and experiment with designs. Whether you are working with dried flowers or live flowers for vases, consider textures, colors, stem sizes and blossom shapes. Using only two colors of flowers in an arrangement calls for planning and creativity. A couple of simple tips can help you make your own red and blue flower arrangements for vases.
- Contact a local florist or visit an online website to see what they have in stock. Ask the florist what types of flowers are currently in season or if they can get the flowers you want for your floral arrangement. Florists can usually order any flower you want even if they are not in season where you live. Place a flower order.
- Select a vase that is large enough to hold all the flowers. Use shorter vases for smaller arrangements with short stemmed flowers and a large vase for an assortment of flowers with long, medium and small stems. Wash the vase thoroughly. Cut floral foam to fit inside the vase. Foam holds the flower stems in place while securing the bouquet in the vase.
- Cut the bottom of each flower stem under water in the kitchen sink. Stems should be cut at an angle. Lay out the flowers on a table. Separate the flowers into piles of long, medium and short stems, or you can separate them by blossom colors.
- Insert the flower stems in the floral foam according to your preferences. Consider making an arrangement with the tallest blue flowers in the center, surround them with medium-sized red flowers and use another short variety of blue flowers around the red blossoms. Try mixing both the red and blue flowers throughout the floral arrangement by placing the tallest red stems in the center and mixing blue and red medium-sized flower together to surround the tall red stems.
- Mix floral preservative from the florist with fresh water, and fill the vase with the mixture after arranging the flowers into the foam. Place the vase in a location out of the sun and away from any direct air currents from air conditioning or heaters.