Tulips In A Champagne Bucket
I love using tulips in floral arrangements, and recently, I stumbled upon a 24-stem bunch at Trader Joe’s. So many tulips! I decided to fill my champagne bucket with some of them in an arrangement that looks elegant but is simple to put together.
THE MATERIALS
I use my thrift store champagne bucket for floral arrangements all the time. Champagne buckets make any flower or stem look so elegant. I grew paperwhites in mine this past Christmas.
The bucket is 10 inches tall – too tall for me to just plop the tulips into. So I would need a shallow bowl with a flat bottom that was just the right diameter to fit inside the ice bucket – near the top. Luckily I had one.
I also needed a few decorative stones, some spike flower frogs, and my live Spanish moss.
THE METHOD
I put the decorative stones in the bottom of the champagne bucket to weigh it down. Now the arrangement wouldn’t be top heavy.
Then I the cut the tulips to the length I wanted them and put them on a few spike flower frogs. I used about 11 of the tulips in this arrangement.
I set the shallow bowl inside the bucket and filled it with water.
And I carefully placed the flower frogs with tulips inside the shallow bowl.
Now I just needed to conceal the bowl. I used my live Spanish moss to give the arrangement a cute “scarf.” Live Spanish moss is an air plant, and it should appreciate the evaporated water that will come up from the shallow bowl. (Dry Spanish moss would probably also have worked for this arrangement.)
THE RESULT
Since tulips keep growing after they are cut, my arrangement got a bit leggy after a few days.
But actually that gave it a dramatic flair.
My cost estimate of $60 for this project assumes that some of the materials will be sourced at thrift stores. Since I already had everything on hand for this project except the tulips, my actual cost was only $10. So, the cost will vary depending on what you already have on hand.
Most great floral arrangements start with the humble but indispensable flower frog. To learn more about flower frogs, check out my post Flower Frogs 101.
And what about that live Spanish moss? I think it's amazing. It's one of my current plant crushes, and I talk about it in detail in this post.
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