Flowers can be very expensive if you order them from a real florist. That is why so many of us buy our flowers from supermarkets. They are often half the price even though they are also grown en-masse in a hot house.
These bouquets come in some pretty standard looking bundles, such as four roses with a strand of baby’s breath or a mix of mums with a couple of green spiky leaves. For more variety buy a mixed bouquet because these can sometimes give you more opportunities to be creative. For instance you can separate daisies from the lilies and make two separate bouquets from a mixed bouquet.
How a bouquet looks depends a lot on the pot you put it in as well. It is all in the presentation. Let’s just say you have brought home a cheap bouquet of a dozen bright red mini-roses. Try putting these roses in something less orthodox than the usual vase. You can bundle them with raffia and ribbon and set them upright in a tight glass vase. You can also place a bowl with water inside an interesting gift box of some kind with just the tops of the flowers peeking out. Yet another nice touch is to put them in old tea cans or copper molds. The idea is that you want to create a hedge using the roses.
The more roses the better.
You can also make stunning combinations by playing with rose colors. Go for an unorthodox combination like pink and red together for a bit of a contemporary touch.
If you want to make an incredible display buy an antique birdcage and cultivate a supermarket bouquet inside. You can make chains of flowers to decorate the sides or have chains of flowers hanging from this type of display as well. Orchids look lovely in this type of presentation.
Another nice and easy presentation is to spray paint a vintage looking wine, medicine or food bottle in celadon, dark blue or bright orange and then stick single peonies or a triplet of carnations in the top.
One of the nicest of presentations is to take mums and citrus fruit and make a pyramid. Pile the fruit first and then stick the mum stems in between the fruit. Limes look great with orange or green mums and you can make a gorgeous display with blood oranges and brilliant pink mums.
The next time you buy supermarket flowers keep in mind that it is not enough to just plunk them in a vase. They also offer you boundless opportunities for creativity.