Learn how to create this charming, easy arrangement of pink tulips and white roses. It’s so much easier than you might think and makes such a wonderful centerpiece or gift!
Pink tulips are such a fresh, delightful touch of spring… let’s get started!
I fooled you! Michael Cane said “Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” This quote completely summarizes this season in my life, and I’m more than content with it.
I enjoy celebrating the little things. I love celebrating the big things, but often the celebration takes focus and the people we are celebrating take a back seat.
Over the weekend, we celebrated Isla’s birthday. When she was born, I was thankful to have at least one non-winter birthday in our family. I love being outdoors and having a January birthday never truly appealed to me…I was always envious of friends having birthday parties outside.
So, that’s just how we spent Isla’s birthday weekend – outside. We played, we picnicked, we visited the zoo and before I knew it, it was Sunday afternoon, just two hours before Isla’s birthday party.
What to do? Create yet another last minute flower arrangement and pull a few things together, just as any duck or loving mother would do.
Tulips and Roses
Where to Buy Flowers
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The Prettiest Pink Tulips
Picking up flowers on a Sunday afternoon isn’t ideal – by this point, they’re usually pretty picked over, but there’s always something beautiful you can pull together if you just take a moment to brainstorm.
Initially, I had wanted to do a full arrangement filled with roses, tulips, stock, and ranunculus in the same color palette, but I settled for slightly contrasting white roses and pink tulips because it was Sunday afternoon and the clock was ticking.
While I love a full flower arrangement, they can also become quite expensive, even in a standard size cylinder, like this one.
Beautiful blooms can stand alone and feel significant. This soft, simple and pretty flower arrangement cost just $10 to make and took less than 5 minutes.
What You’ll Need
- One bundle of tulips (these generally come in a package of 10)
- one dozen roses
- A cylinder vase, or anything you have on hand. This vase is approximately 8″ high with a 5″ wide mouth opening.
- Floral clippers
How to Make an Arrangement of Pink Tulips with Roses
Here are the details to create your own:
- Cut the stems of your roses, one by one at an angle so that the bud sits in your vase at a diagonal and the bud reaches just above the lip of the vase.
- Remove the foliage from roses
- Place your roses diagonally across from one another in the vase, saving just a few roses for later.
- Cut your tulips 2″ longer than your roses, leaving the leaves intact. Insert inside of the rose lined vase and allow to fall into place.
- Fill in with your remaining rose stems, cutting at length to stand straight vs fall to an angle, using the tulip leaves to hold them into place.
Tips
- Choose tulips and roses with no yellowing on the stem or leaves.
- Tulips will grow in the vase, and they tend to follow the light. That’s perfectly okay! Let them do what they want, the beauty is in the imperfections!
- To allow the stems of tulips and stock to take in plenty of water, be sure to cut them at an angle and use clean water.
- Recut your stems day and change the water in your vase – this always leads to a longer vase life no matter the bloom!
- The smaller the neck of your vase, the less stems you’ll need.
Pink tulips relay your feelings of affection, well wishes, love and appreciation. They are not meant to be a romantic display of affection, however.
Tulips are a symbol of spring because they bloom in March through April, when the ground warms and the bulbs push their way towards the sun.
However, you can find tulips in flower shops throughout the year, especially in winter when they are grown in hot houses around the world.
One should know how to arrange flowers in a beautiful manner. Thank you for sharing this article. That’s a wonderful blog regarding flower arrangements.
Julie-love the last minute flower arrangement for working women…never enough time in a day. Flowers are beautiful and such a lift!
Thank you, Teresa! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Happy Spring!
Hello Julie,
Thanks for sharing this article on last minute flower arrangements specially for working women. Sometime when we busy in our work at that time this last minute flower arrangements ideas will helpful us.
I’ve always loved that quote, it applies to us busy mothers! And Happy Birthday to Isla!
xoxo
Kate
Thanks, Kate! Nice to “see” you! I hope our paths cross this year!