How to create Garden Flower Arrangements with your backyard blooms
Is your backyard bursting with perennial blooms? Just need someone to show you how to put them together in a vase? Today, we're sharing our secrets for transforming your backyard flowers into centerpieces that'll make you feel like a professional florist.
The Perfect Timing: When to Cut
Here's a pro tip that'll make your arrangements last days longer: Cut your flowers at their prime, which is for most flowers, before they fully open.
Buds should be showing color but not completely unfurled
Cut in the early morning or evening when stems are most hydrated
This ensures maximum vase life – sometimes up to two weeks!
Choose Your Vase
You can never go wrong with a classic white vase or a good ole mason jar.
Let’s the flowers be the star
Works with any color palette
Timeless and elegant
But honestly? Use whatever makes your heart happy – that vintage pitcher, a wine bottle, or your grandmother's crystal vase.
Mason jar and a snips
The Foundation: Building Your Base
Step 1: Start with Greenery
Before any flowers touch that vase, we're creating structure:
Use foliage like:
Lemon basil (bonus: it smells incredible!)
Peony leaves (yes, even after blooms are done)
Any leafy stems from your garden
The technique: Crisscross the stems in the vase to create a natural grid
This gives your flowers something to lean on and helps them stay exactly where you want them
Pro Hack: The Tape Grid
Want even more control? Create a grid across the mouth of your vase with clear floral tape (or scotch):
Make a tic-tac-toe pattern
Each square becomes a "pocket" for your stems
Perfect when working with short stems
Building Height: The Line Flowers
Next up: Drama and dimension!
Add your tall, linear flowers like snapdragons, larkspur or delphinium:
These create vertical interest
Place them slightly off-center for a more natural look
Vary the heights – nothing should be exactly the same level
Yarrow, Bachelor Buttons, Delphinium
The Star of the Show: Focal Flowers
Now for the flowers you've been daydreaming about all spring!
The Rule of Odds
Use 3, 5, or 7 focal flowers (odd numbers are more pleasing to the eye)
Place them slightly lower than your line flowers
Tuck them into your greenery base at different depths
Placement Tips:
Turn your vase as you work
Step back frequently to check all angles
Create a gentle dome shape or asymmetrical triangle
Let some blooms face different directions
Enjoy on your kitchen table!
Reading tips is great. But you know what's better? Actually doing it with expert guidance, a glass of wine in hand, and your best friends laughing beside you.
Join Us for a Hands-On Workshop!
Floral Arranging Workshop
June 23rd | 6:30-8:00 PM | $50
Join us for a fun evening of flowers, friends, and creativity!
Gather your girlfriends for a hands-on floral design experience where you'll create a fresh flower centerpiece to take home and enjoy.
What's Included:
All fresh flowers and greenery
Mason jar/vase (yours to keep!)
Tools and tips to help your blooms last longer.
Complimentary glass of wine
A beautiful centerpiece to brighten your kitchen table
Perfect for: Date night with your girlfriends, or girls' night out with your fun co-workers. Treat yourself to a creative escape!
Space is limited, save your seat now! Please note that all workshop registrations are non-refundable, but transferable to a friend if you're unable to attend.
Date: June 23rd
Location: The 507 Outskirt
What's Included:
Step-by-step guidance
All flowers and materials provided
A beautiful centerpiece to take home
Wine sipping throughout (the best part!)
Techniques you'll use for years to come
What You'll Actually Learn:
Beyond just making one pretty arrangement, you'll walk away knowing:
Which flowers to pair together – Understanding color theory and texture combinations that work every time
Conditioning secrets – How to prep different stem types so your arrangements last twice as long
Our secret flower food recipe – Made from everyday kitchen ingredients (this alone will save you money!)
Design principles – The formula for creating balanced, professional-looking arrangements
Proportion tricks – How to scale arrangements for different table sizes and occasions
Seasonal adaptations – How to use these same techniques from spring through fall with whatever's growing
Problem-solving skills – What to do when stems are too short, too tall, or won't stay put
Flower personalities – Which blooms are drama queens, which are easy-going, and how to work with both
This is the girlfriend outing you've been needing.
Imagine:
Creative time away from screens and stress
Learning skills that'll elevate every dinner party
Laughter, wine, and flowers
Taking home something beautiful you made yourself
Confidence to create arrangements all season long
June 23rd | 6:30-8:00 PM | $50
Join us for a fun evening of flowers, friends, and creativity!
Gather your girlfriends for a hands-on floral design experience where you'll create a fresh flower centerpiece to take home and enjoy.
What's Included:
All fresh flowers and greenery
Mason jar/vase (yours to keep!)
Tools and tips to help your blooms last longer.
Complimentary glass of wine
A beautiful centerpiece to brighten your kitchen table
Perfect for: Date night with your girlfriends, or girls' night out with your fun co-workers. Treat yourself to a creative escape!
Space is limited, save your seat now! Please note that all workshop registrations are non-refundable, but transferable to a friend if you're unable to attend.