Spring Large Container Arrangement

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

• Vases, 4
• Floral Foam, 2 5/8" x 3 1/2" x 7 7/8", 4
• Hot Glue
• Hot Glue Gun
• Wire Cutters
• Floral:
• Peony Stems, Peach, 2
• Rose Bushes, Cream, 2
• Hydrangea Bushes, Pink Yellow Mixed, 2
• Poppy Bushes, Peach, 2
• Dahlia Bush, Red, 1
• Daisy Stems, Yellow, 2
• Ranunculus Stems, Yellow, 2
• Paper Small Blossom Bush, Light Orange, 1

DIRECTIONS:

2. Cut all floral into separate stems. Push up any movable leaves. Cut off any leaves that cannot be moved. Side cut off any lumps on stems.
3. Separate the floral. Set equal numbers of each larger floral in each vase. Leave out smaller floral. Arrange each vase the same. Alternate colors and sizes. Remove each arrangement from the vases taking care to keep the locations of one bundle as per arranged.
4. Create leaf sheets to cover floral foam and show off glass vase pattern:
5. Separate leaves into four piles. Trim off any stems that protrude from the leaves. Lay all leaves from one pile good side down to fill out a 10" x 10" space. Overlap the edges of the leaves. Hot glue the leaves together at the overlaps.
6. Lay one block of foam centered on one sheet of leaves. The sheet should cover three long sides of the floral foam. While holding the sheet of leaves around the foam, insert into vase. Repeat for other vases.
7. Take one bundle of arranged floral and insert the individual stems into one vase. Trim stems as needed. Locate the other bundles of flowers in a similar arrangement into the other vases. Bend the heads of the flowers to point up and out from the center of the arrangement.
8. Insert the smaller floral as fill. The shorter stemmed Poppy Bush stems may be used to fill under the lower edge of the arrangement.