Now that you know how to process and condition your just purchased tulips you will want to place them in an arrangement. However, they can be frustrating to keep in line. Tulips are very temperamental--like teenagers; they like to do what they want, when they want!
Because tulips continue to grow (as much as 3-4 inches after being cut) and bend toward the light they can be difficult to arrange. Here are a few simple arrangements to make them behave.
This is super easy, just place three tulips at varying heights inside two different size glass cylinders. You could do this with two, three, four or more vases of different sizes or all the same size. Just make sure you check the water level every day as tulips are thirsty flowers.
Gather tulips (here I used five each since the vase is small) keeping flower heads level and use a rubber band to hold stems in place. Wrap the bottom of the stems with a tulip leaf and secure with decorative pin. Cut stems straight across below the leaf.
Arrange tulips and grass in your hand (here I used bare grass but lily grass would work, too) and secure with rubber band. Cover band with decorative ribbon or rafia. Cut stems to correct length for your vase and angle over side of vase.
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