How can you pleasantly surprise and please a woman on March 8? Of course, cute and delicate tulips! Despite the fact that mimosa is the main symbol of the holiday, they are very often used in flower arrangements, creating a fantastic holiday mood. This article will tell you how to collect and beautifully decorate a bouquet of tulips with your own hands by March 8 and please your beloved woman. Below you will find step-by-step instructions, tips, photos and videos.
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How to choose good tulips for a bouquet
Fresh and beautiful flowers are the key to a luxurious composition that will bring a lot of joy to the person to whom you present it. When choosing tulips for making a bouquet, the following rules should be followed:
- So that the flowers do not fade ahead of time and give pleasure to the recipient, they should be bought in trusted places.
- It is worth choosing plants that have not yet opened, it is they who will stand in the vase the longest.Alas, the flowers that have already opened will not last long.
- When choosing closed flowers, you can examine tulips of the same variety that have already opened to see how they will look when opened.
- Experienced florists recommend choosing Dutch-bred tulips for making a bouquet, as they are more viable and can delight longer with their appearance in a vase.
- Carefully inspect the plants before buying - they should not have traces or signs of wilting, damage, crumpled and deformed leaves, and the stem should not be thin and pale.
By the way! The site already has detailed materialabout the rules for choosing tulips that will stand for a long time.
Video: how to choose high-quality tulips for a festive bouquet for March 8
Advice!In a flower shop, it is very convenient to immediately buy not only the flowers themselves, but also the necessary goods that will help to beautifully decorate the flower arrangement: craft paper, colored paper, various jewelry, satin ribbons.
What shades of tulips to use for a bouquet
A composition of tulips can be given not only for the holiday on March 8, but also for a birthday, Valentine's Day, a date, and make a wedding bouquet out of flowers. And for all of these cases in colors, not only the shape and structure, but also the shade is extremely important. Many people choose flowers based on the latter criterion.
Can be done as monobouquetconsisting of tulips of the same color, andan interesting composition with several different shades or many colors.
If you want to impress a person, you can make a bouquet with your own hands from several bright shades, for example, from white, pink and yellow tulips, or from white and red, etc. You can come up with absolutely any combination depending on your tastes and preferences the person to whom the gift bouquet is intended.
But in floristry there are generally accepted standards for flower shades:
- Mom for any occasion it is better to give pink tulips, because they mean tenderness and trust.
- On a romantic date or on March 8 to your girlfriend or wife can choose red, cream or pink tulipsexpressing passion and vivid feelings.
- Colleagues and business partners it is appropriate to present orange, purple flowers. Such a gesture will indicate a wish. well-being, financial success.
- Good friends give white tulipsthat symbolize strong friendship and trusting relationship... You can also present to your friends and yellow flowersthat express warm, sunny attitude.
- For a wedding bouquet can be used white, pale pink, peach shades.
By the way! In fact, the above advice about color are advisory in nature, you have the right to choose flowers of absolutely any shade that, in your opinion, suits a person.
The combination of tulips with other flowers
Of course, tulips are beautiful in themselves and will look great in a mono bouquet. However, you can create very interesting floristic compositions with other flowers. They will play with different plants with new colors, therefore, if you want to make an unforgettable bouquet of tulips and other flowers with your own hands, then you should know what colors they can be combined with.
Flowers that tulips go well with:
- peonies;
- roses;
- daffodils;
- mimosa;
- irises;
- eustoma.
The photo of the following flower arrangement proves that tulips, roses and peonies can make the perfect bouquet for March 8 or any other holiday:
Note! But to combine lilies of the valley in one bouquet with tulips no, as they have a negative effect on tulips and reduce their lifespan.
Step by step instructions: how to make a beautiful bouquet of tulips
It's not difficult to create a beautiful bouquet, but you need to show a little diligence, care and accuracy.
To make a flower arrangement you will need:
- Tulips - you choose the number of colors yourself, based on your preferences and capabilities.
- Any other flowers - if you decide to make a composition that includes several types of plants, then you need to decide in advance which flowers you will use.
- Twine - for fixing and bonding flowers.
- Satin ribbon - you can take the color of plants or paper, or you can dwell on the shade that you like more.
- Kraft paper for packaging - plain, colored, with a pattern (to your taste).
- Organza - you can pack not only in paper, but also in fabric. Airy organza is just perfect for this.
This step-by-step instruction will help you beautifully arrange and pack a bouquet of tulips with your own hands:
- The first step is to inspect the plants. If there is any contamination, it is recommended to remove it.
- Then it is worth cutting off the extra leaves (if there are many of them), otherwise they will interfere with the composition of the composition due to excessive volume and distract attention from the flowers themselves in the finished composition. Leave the 2 top leaves on one stem.
- Now it is necessary to fold the tulips parallel to each otherso that they lie head to head - first the first layer, then the second, third (and so on until the end, depending on the number of flowers). You can also fold bouquets using a spiral technique, which is clearly and clearly shown in the video:
- If you use other flowers, then they need to be inserted into the composition in the same way as tulips (parallel or in a spiral).
- After you have folded the tulips, you need to tie twine around the stems from below to fix the bouquet. Only now you cannot tie too tightly, because you can cut the stems, and too weakly - the flowers will be poorly fixed and may decay.
- Now you need to pack a bouquet of tulips in craft paper - just put the plants on the paper and wrap.
The following videos show ways of decorating flowers in kraft paper (you can wrap the composition in paper using any of the techniques you like):
- After you carefully put the flowers on the paper, straighten them and wrap them up, you should tie them with twine or satin ribbon from the bottom (this option is preferable, so they will look festive and elegant).
- If you have doubts about the strength of the structure, then you can staple the paper in some places with a stapler.
Video: how to assemble a bouquet of tulips with your own hands
How to preserve and extend the life of tulips in a vase
Any flowers that were presented by a loved one, a good friend, a respected colleague, I want to keep as long as possible.
If you follow these tips, you can admire and enjoy the bouquet with tulips a little longer:
- Water for the vase should be used cool, clean and settled, since cut plants do not like warm water.
- Change the water in the vase every day.
- The ends of the stems should be cut diagonally (at an angle of 45 degrees) daily, renewal of the cut prolongs the life of the flowers.
- Tulips will last better and longer if you place a sprig of thuja or cypress in a vase next to them.
- If lower leaves are still present in the bouquet, then they must be removed.
- Keep flowers cool and preferably in the shade. The vase must be placed far from heat sources.
- You can put one aspirin in the water.
Important! Ain this articleprovides more detailed information on how how to keep a bouquet of tulips longer at home.
Tulips have an amazing, incomparable spring beauty that symbolizes tenderness and lightness. Isn't that kind of mood needed for the 8 March holiday and for any other celebrations? You can buy a ready-made bouquet in a flower shop, but it is better to do it yourself, using your imagination, taste and knowledge of the preferences of the person to whom you plan to give the bouquet.
Video: a bouquet of tulips for March 8