Branches floral arrangement

Summer's bounty gives us rich sunset tones and beautiful dahlias to enjoy. In this tutorial, we'll be creating a large-scale, foam-free summer floral arrangement in an urn that transitions from shades of dark rust and orange to warm golden yellows and earthy creams. Once the warmth of summer has left us, this step-by-step floral arrangement lesson can easily be applied to any season with available flowers.

Creating your own flower arrangements is a rewarding way to put cut flowers from your garden to great use. Here, we're sharing our best flower arrangement tips, according to florists.

Always beloved in arrangements, wild blooming branches can be difficult to tame. Ariella Chezar shows us how in her new book, The Flower Workshop

Using a branch or two as focal points is popping up all over Instagram, and we can't get enough of it. Here are some inspired branches we spotted that truly elevate their surroundings.

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SUE MCLEARY on Instagram: "I love my @fiskars PowerGear2 Softgrip pruners! They make paring down and prepping big branches quick and easy on the hands. Seen here, blooming branches are trimmed to size, snipped vertically for maximum water uptake, and placed in my favorite mega frog. They serve as a great support for hanging amaranthus, chrysanthemum, hyacinth (hanging), sweet pea, incredible sweet pea vine with blue flowers ( look closely! ), and jasmine vine. So nice to have on hand this…

If you're looking for an effortless, elevated floral styling experience, look no further than this cream-colored spring quince blossom branch with its realistic brown stem. Display several of these faux blossoms in your preferred vase and enjoy a stunning center piece arrangement that won't wilt away! This top seller tends to go quickly - make sure to sign up so you'll know when it's back in stock!

Hello all, My haemanthus lily produced 2 flowers that had to be cut and used. Their short stems are somewhat limiting, so I chose this self-made container in which to display them. Because I don't use this container very often, I had forgotten about it but re-discovered it during some tidying up of the store room. I, also, used dietes leaves and Murraya Paniculata in bud. It was Vicky's turn to choose a theme for the advanced students and she chose from Book 5, Lesson 14 - 'Composing with…

Hello all, Our exhibition is over and we are all very happy with what we have achieved. It was the first time that I was responsible for an exhibition, even if it was a relatively small one and I had to fight some misgivings of whether I would be able to pull it off. But, of course, I was not alone. Everyone was very willing and eager to be a part of it and to do everything necessary to maintain the arrangements so that they always looked fresh. This is quite an undertaking over a two week…