Tips for Using Your Flower Arranger

 As promised, here's the second of this week's series of ideas for the flower arranger.

--Take it up a notch.  Use grasses or  even a stick (we love sticks!)  to give your design some height.
--Smaller stems like a grass are a little trickier.  Add them last, using the larger stems to provide support.   Or you can bind a bunch of them together  as with the lily-of-the-valley shown below.  We've used wire here, but you can use ribbon or raffia too.
--Don't forget flower food.  It helps to prolong the vase life of your flowers by providing nutrients for the flowers and  reducing the growth of bacteria.   Flower food comes in little packets and can be found where ever flowers are sold.

Okay, we've got more ideas so stay tuned for part three!