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Easy Flower Arrangements

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A Gallery of Quick and Easy Flower Arrangement Ideas:

Do Not Be Afraid of Fresh Flowers! Think out of the vase! If I can make easy flower arrangements quickly, so can you!

The arrangement shown here is one that did not take very long. It is a blooming spring branch in a 3" tall bud vase. All it took was a pair of clippers and permission to cut the stem from a just budding tree. Of course the tree was in my yard, so I did not have to get the OK, but you get the idea. I have a friend who has forsythia and she allows me to clip at will from her bushes. I like to clip stems in the late winter, bring them inside and force them to bloom early (Visit Forcing Stems and Twigs to see how!) That in itself is an easy way to bring fresh flowers into your home.

Keep scrolling down to see some of the easy and quick flower arrangements I have created. I use flowers from my own yard (camellias) and purchased flower bunches from Costco.

All images are mine unless otherwise stated.
Camelia in a Martini Glass by Mickie_G

Easy Camellia Martini 

Camelia in a green bowl

Simple, Single Camellia in a Candy Dish 

Yellow tulips in a glass vase

Easy Tulips 

Arranging Tulips:

How I created this easy display--

detail of leaf wrapped around the tulip stems in the vaseI bought the tulips in a pre-gathered bunch at Costco. I had the cylinder vase at home.

I trimmed the stems to match the height of the vase. Removed the tulip leaves leaving just one leaf on each stem.

I took several of the discarded leaves and wrapped them around the bouquet. Do not worry if the leaves tear.

Holding the bouquet wrapped with the leaves, I gently placed it in the vase. Added water with a floral preservative.

Need an attractive vase for your flowers?

An easy way to display flowers--

If you like traditional flower arrangements, you should use a vase. Go plain, go fancy and colorful. You are the designer.
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Reader's Opinions and flower arranging ideas go here:

I like to use vases, but, as you can see, I also think "out of the box" and use unusual items for arranging flowers.

What did you think about the martini glass idea? I also have an old sliver plated teapot that I have used to display roses. One Thanksgiving, I put flowers in a hollowed out pumpkin.

What easy and quick, "out of the box" (or vase) ideas do you have to share? Did you like mine?

  • anusk1313 Mar 16, 2012 @ 6:47 am | delete
    beautiful ideas!
  • Jolene_Belmain Dec 10, 2011 @ 11:32 am | delete
    Very beautiful arrangements... flowers can add so much to a room using so little :)
  • daria369 Aug 27, 2011 @ 3:40 pm | delete
    Great ideas, I especially liked the martini camellia. My preferred vases are unusually shaped bottles - also because only one bloom can be enough to make a pretty arrangement.
  • Wednesday_Elf Jun 12, 2011 @ 7:57 am | delete
    "outside the box" type of flower arranging never occurred to me! Very clever ideas you shared here!
  • darciefrench Jun 11, 2011 @ 5:23 pm | delete
    How pretty! Love the 'one bud' arrangements -:)
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