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We have all worked with flowers a lot and here are few tips and tricks to help make our lives easier when arranging flowers. Discover our tips for helping your flowers last longer, look better, work better, and cost less...all while saving you tons of precious time.
 You can read dozens or even hundreds of articles and books about floral arranging, but you will automatically know what will be most pleasing to your eye. If the book says "Never mix blue and yellow flowers together" and you like blue and yellow together, mix them together.
While it is not a hard and fast rule, it is good advice for many situations. Small flowers, particularly in large arrangements tend to get lost…both figuratively and literally. By figuratively, I mean that sometimes a small bloom will be overwhelmed by larger or more assertive blooms. They are also hard to grab and reposition. By grouping smaller blooms in groups they are easier to handle and make a more distinctive impression. You can cluster flowers loosely by just arranging them close to each other, or actually bundle them together with ribbon, rubber bands, floral wire, or floral tape.
While a single rose or other flower in a bud vase is always elegant, use single blooms in a wide variety of places in many different ways. Place single blooms in tiny vases and containers, float smaller blooms in wineglasses, teacups, or other small containers, and float larger blooms in bowls or other wide containers. Sometimes a single bloom can be the most elegant and distinctive arrangement in a room full of other arrangements.
 Pacing a floral arrangement in a container that is not a typical vase will look refreshing. Most Fower arrangements are unique as as unique containers are used. Consider any open container for holding flowers. Even items that won't hold water can be used as vases simply by placing a smaller vase, bottle, or other container inside it.
A very common mistake people make is using a dull pair of scissors or cutting knife, or even worse their fingers, to "cut" flowers either in the garden or when trimming them to fit into an arrangement. A sharp edge is needed to make a sharp even cut that will allow water to enter the flower stems. A ragged edge actually inhibits water and food absorption and will make your flowers fade faster.
 There are few things prettier than a bright bouquet of flowers in a sparkling crystal vase set in a sunny location. But as pretty as that flower arrangement is, it won't last long at all in such a warm environment. The cooler the location, the longer your flowers will last. Keeping flowers away from direct sunlight, large lights, heating vents, heaters, active fireplaces, stoves, and even appliances will help them last longer. If you just have to keep an arrangement in a warm location change the water frequently using very cold water and even add an ice cube or two to the arrangement every so often and your flowers will last longer.
 Many flowers smell. One needs to keep the scent of flowers in mind when making arrangements. Remember that even pleasantly scented flowers can be problematic in tight quarters, hot rooms, or on the dinner table. On the opposite side of pleasant smelling flowers lie what we affectionately call "the stinkers". Some flowers just don't smell good, or don't smell good to other people. A flower that smells mildly unpleasant in the garden or florists shop might smell very unpleasant when arranged in a small room or when all you can smell is the flower arrangement.
Flower arrangements are not static. One shouldn't just make them and ignore them and then expect them to flourish. With clear vases, problems are a bit more obvious, if you are out of water or if the water is cloudy (which is a sign of a bacteria infestation and means you need to clean your vase and change your water) it practically jumps out at you. With opaque vases or other containers it is much harder and you to be a bit more careful about checking the arrangement frequently.
 We are bombarded with images of huge, gorgeous bouquets of perfect flowers in stunning vases on the pages of magazines and in television shows and movies and the web. What we don't realize is that many of those arrangements use hundreds of flowers and cost in hundreds or even thousands. Forget the extravagant arrangements. While they might be nice for very formal occasions, smaller arrangements can have just as much, if not more, appeal, charm, and beauty. As long as you like the arrangement, and as long as it makes you happy, it is indeed a "perfect" arrangement.
Compiled from web resources
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