The Bud Vase

1. The Bud Vase Step by step construction

2. What is a bud vase • Small vase with skinny neck • Designed for 1-3 flowers

3. Benefits of a Bud Vase • Easy to construct • Modestly priced

4. Materials needed to make a bud vase • Bud vase • Floral tools – knife, cutters • 1-3 flowers • 2-3 leather leaf foliage • 1 stem baby’s breath or other filler flower • Bow • Card and card pick

5. Constructing the bud vase • Add properly measured floral preservative • Fill vase with water 1 ½ to 2 inches from the top.

6. Add greenery • Remove the bottom pieces of foliage so that is it the right size for the vase • Add 2-3 pieces of leather leaf to the vase • Using proper proportion the height of the greenery should be 1 ½ to 2 times the height of the vase

7. Add flowers • Add 1-3 flowers to the vase • All 3 flowers should be at different heights, tall, medium, and short.

8. Add bow • Tie a florist’s bow in a coordinating color. • You can add a card with a card pick if you are giving it as a gift.

9. Good and bad examples of bud vases • Which one is too short, off balance (leaning sideways), not properly placed apart, and one is in good proportion and flowers are properly placed apart.