DIY How To Wrap A Flower Bouquet In Six Steps
It is lovely to share thoughtful gifts to family and friends straight from your garden or kitchen table. I grow flowers so I select them from the cutting garden but if you don't simply find somewhere great to buy flowers. This handy map from Flowers From The Farm is a great asset as you can see local flower workshops, pick your own flower events and you can buy beautiful British Flowers near to you in Britain.
A handy six-step guide shows you how to wrap a homegrown bouquet easily and gift straight away to someone special. Making an ideal thoughtful gift that they can enjoy as the flowers begin to bloom.
Step 1.
Select your flowers and foliage carefully from your garden or local shop. Remove extra leaves on the stems below where you will hand-tie the flowers. I use British twine by jute but you can use florist tape or elastic bands. Just be sure the flowers are not to restricted as you want the flowers to be able to drink water at all times.
Arrange your flowers so they have nice coverage of colour. For example, if you had three different coloured flowers. You may choose to add colour 1, then a colour 2 and a colour 3. Then repeat so the colours as you add can be separate out to each corner. Once you are happy, tie the flower arrangement together. Trim the stems of the flowers to roughly the same lengths.
Step 2.
Select which flower wrap you would like to use, brown Kraft wrap is good, Satin tissue paper or flower gift wrap non-coated. Eco-friendly papers and items which can be recycled are great for this kind of wrapping so just ensure you do not choose glitter or coated papers as these generally cannot be recycled.
The example in the photograph is mint green flower wrap.
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| Wrap & Grow Gift Box Content to Wrap Your Bouquets |
Step 3.
Lay your chosen paper on the table and with pointed order at an angle. Lay your flowers heads up close to the point of the paper.
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| Flowers onto eco-friendly Flower Wrap |
Step 4.
Wrap the paper from left across the flowers and tuck in behind the hand-tied bunch.
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| Wrap flower paper from left to right |
Step 5.
Lift up the bottom right of the flower wrap and fold the paper over the flower stems. Crease a line up the paper on the right as shown. Wrap the remaining flower gift wrap around the flowers to join together.
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| DIY flower bouquet wrapping in six steps |
Step 6.
You can choose a sticker to add the finishing touches to the bouquet, a ribbon or sellotape to set the paper into place. In this example, a ‘With Love’ sticker has been used. The sticker is set to the front of the flowers. You can present the sticker first, for the special recipient to read the message from your thoughtful gift.
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| Homegrown or local brought flowers handmade bouquet - with love. |
Flower bouquets do not need to be complicated with the right materials and pretty flowers you can create gorgeous thoughtful gifts.
Ideal for Mothers Day, Easter, Birthdays, or simply as a thank you to someone special. Each Wrap & Grow gifting set comes with a packet of seeds to replenish stock of flowers or to grow something new.
If you would like to see the Wrap & Grow Homemade Flower Bouquet Gift Sets view here or if you would like to browser flower wrap or decorations look here.
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I would love to see some homemade bouquets you have created, after using these steps? Add your comment below as I would love to see them.
As always, thank you for reading.
Kelly x