Organize and store artifi al long stem flowers?

Anissa
by Anissa

I have artifical flowers some on long stems that I want to find a way to organize and store them in my storage building or my craft room. I want the best way to where they will not get mashed but yet take up less space.


  12 answers
  • Gk Gk on May 13, 2020

    You can buy a under the bed plastic storage box with a lid for your longer stemmed flowers. It can be placed under a bed, in a closet, on a shelf or anywhere you want and it will keep your flowers safe.

  • I store them in large plastic bags and hang them.

  • FrugalFamilyTimes.com FrugalFamilyTimes.com on May 13, 2020

    What about storing them in tubes - I’m thinking like Pringle’s containers or something similar. Then they can be organized and stacked.

  • Redcatcec Redcatcec on May 13, 2020

    I store my silk flowers by putting a rubber band around the stems to hold them together approximately halfway up from the bottom, then put a plastic bag of about the same size over the flowers, gathering the open end of the bag around the stems and closing with a twist tie, leaving the upper part full of air, like a balloon, to protect the flowers. You can use plastic grocery bags, light trash can bags, whatever was big enough to make a balloon over the flowers, with enough to gather around the stems below. These have been stored as bouquets standing in unused vases or laid gently in boxes with a lid, criss-crossing the bouquets so that no flower head is resting on any other. They always stay clean and uncrushed this way.

  • Recreated Designs Recreated Designs on May 13, 2020

    If you want to store them standing up so that the flowers don't get crushed you could cover a box with chicken wire and then slip the stems in the wire holes. It would keep them standing and the ends from getting smushed. You could also then cover the whole thing with a garbage bag to keep the dust off.

  • Kathy Gunter Law Kathy Gunter Law on May 13, 2020

    Get a clear storage box with lid, I would go with the under the box size. Lay them alternating to fit more in a space. Put tissue paper between layers. Make sure they are not smashed and you should be ok.

  • Chloe Crabtree Chloe Crabtree on May 13, 2020

    Get some of the large 5 gallon buckets from Home Depot. You can paint them a fun color, then use duct tape to attach a piece of chicken wire over the top of the bucket. You can then put your stems down through the holes in the chicken wire.

  • Janice Janice on May 13, 2020

    Hi Anissa, Why not "store" them and enjoy them at the same time. Get several large lightweight wire wastebaskets and arrange the flowers as you please. Then hang the baskets on Command hooks in various area of your craft room and enjoy! Even up close to the ceiling out of the way will work!

  • Johnavallance82 Johnavallance82 on May 13, 2020

    Hello Anissa,

    Ask at your local florist shop if they have any flower boxes you can have, as they will be the best way to do it. Otherwise buy under bed polythene storage boxes from your local store or DIY. Best wishes.

  • Libbie B Libbie B on May 13, 2020

    My daughter uses a pocket shoe holder that hangs inside a closet door.

  • Kelli L. Milligan Kelli L. Milligan on May 13, 2020

    My florist uses large PVC plumbing pipes and stores then in them. She cut them to about 24" each and lined up against wall and places them stem down.