Easy Arrangements

I had an event yesterday - a luncheon for scholarship recipients and the donors of those scholarships.  It is pretty cool to see them interact and is one of our "feel good" events.  Being a luncheon and for a crowd largely consisting of students, we try to make it a little more fun than some of our other events.  

We used a new - to us anyway - florist and I think they got it right.

I took the photo with my blackberry, so the quality isn't great but I think you get the idea.  Another cool thing, the vase is actually cardboard.  

A couple notes on this arrangement.  It is actually really easy to recreate.  Were I a better blogger (or had more hours in the day) I would have gotten these flowers to show how to reproduce it.  But instead you get me typing it.  If I really like you, I might be willing to bring one to you in exchange for praise for my blog and maybe a follower or two :)

So, this is basically just a bunch of daffodils with some tulips stuck in the middle.  If you purchase a bouquet of daffodils, bring them home, snip off the ends and put them in warm water.  You'll see some sappy stuff running out the bottom - this stuff actually kills some other flowers in arrangements, so that's one reason you frequently see daffodils by themselves.  Anyway, take the daffodils after a bit in the warm water and stick them in the vase with cold water.  Do the same with the tulips - snip the ends, warm water, then just randomly stick them into the daffodils.  As you can see from this photo, the tulips are getting all willy nilly in the vase.  They actually keep growing after they are cut so they won't stay all nicely tucked in the daffodils.  I think you should go with the twists and turns they provide - it gives the arrangement a nice carefree look that is perfect for the colors and the season.  

Let me know any questions.