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How To Make a Gift Bouquet Of Flowers

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• Whether you're giving them to a friend, a hostess, or that mysterious blonde at the laundromat, a gift bouquet is easy to make and always appreciated.
• Added December 10, 2007

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You Will Need

• The fresh flowers of your choice
• The filler greens of your choice
• A pair of gardening shears or scissors
• A square sheet of clear plastic, craft paper, or gift wrap
• One or two large squares of tissue paper
• Two 8 to 12-inch lengths of ribbon
• And a flat surface

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  Step 1.

  Hold flowers

  Place the flowers one by one in your hand so their tops are more or less even. Hold them together.

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  Step 2.

  Tie together

  Tie the bunch together at the stems with one of the ribbons.

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  Step 3.

  Cut stems

  Cut the stems straight across the bottom with a pair of sharp garden shears to give them a uniform length.

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  Step 4.

  Place ribbon in plastic

  Lay the other ribbon down horizontally on a flat surface. Place a square sheet of clear plastic over the ribbon with a corner of the plastic at the top and bottom (so it’s in the shape of a diamond).

• If you don’t have clear plastic handy—and who does?—you can use a glossy gift wrap. Place the glossy side face up so it ends up against the flowers to keep their moisture from bleeding through.

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  Step 5.

  Place tissue paper

  Place the square sheets of tissue paper over the plastic in the same manner.

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  Step 6.

  Lay flowers

  Lay the flowers on top of the tissue paper with the stems at the bottom corner.

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  Step 7.

  Wrap tissue paper

  Neatly wrap the tissue paper over the stems, overlapping the side corners, so that you’ve formed a cone shape around the bouquet.

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  Step 8.

  Wrap plastic

  Wrap the plastic over the bouquet in the same manner, overlapping the side corners.

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  Step 9.

  Tie bow

  Pull the ends of the second ribbon up around the bouquet and tie a decorative bow.

• The largest flower in the world, the rafflesia arnoldi, has petals nearly 2 feet long and 1 inch thick.

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