How to Make a Spring Flower Arrangement

As the days get longer and the first signs of spring start to appear, there’s no better way to celebrate the season than by creating a fresh, vibrant spring flower arrangement.

The colors, scents, and textures of spring blooms bring a sense of renewal and joy into our homes. Arranging spring flowers is a fun and creative way to bring a little extra beauty into the everyday.

Let’s dive into how to make a simple yet stunning spring flower arrangement that captures the essence of this season.

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Ingredients and Tools for This Spring Bouquet

You’ll need a few things to create a spring bouquet, like flowers, of course!

Every fall, I add more and more flower bulbs to the backyard. (More on planting bulbs here.) Daffodils, tulips, and muscari are some staple cut-flowers that reliably bloom for me each year.

We also have a number of lilacs, fruit trees, and other early leafing shrubs and trees growing in our backyard.

I would encourage you to forage in your own yard or get permission to forage in a friend’s yard for your own seasonal arrangements.

You will need:

• a large handful of foliage stems (budding branches are great to add, too)
• several filler flowers (I’m using yellow daffodils for this)
• a few focal flowers (something that contrasts with your filler flowers)
• several small accent flowers
• a vase
• clear floral tape
• sharp floral snips or scissors

You can add floral food to your vase if you have it. If not, just be diligent about changing the water in the vase every day to make your blooms last the longest.

Step-By-Step Guide to Making this Spring Flower Arrangement

Now that you have everything you need, let’s get started!

You’ll first want to decide where your arrangement is going and how big it will be.

Will it be viewed from all sides or just from one side? Do you want it to be tall or short, and are your stems long enough for a tall vase?

If your stems are short and you don’t have very many blooms (as it was for me in this case!), you’ll probably be better off choosing a short vase and placing the arrangement against a wall so that all your blooms can face forward.

Create Structure for the Flower Arrangement

Having a grid support or “mechanics” to hold your floral stems up is important in any arrangement, but especially for ones in wide-mouth vases or if you don’t have many flowers.

To create support (or mechanics, as its also called), tape a grid onto your vase using clear floral tape. Fill the vase with water. Have all your flowers and foliage stems hydrated nearby and ready to be arranged.

Add in the structural elements: branches and sturdy foliage stems.

Here I’m using a mix of lilac stems, sage, and apple branches. Leaves are pretty sparse in the garden in early spring, but I like these bare branches with foliage just starting to emerge!

Those I left longer so that they could add height to the vase and poke up through the flowers without being distracting.

I try to place the branches around the edges of the vase and vary the heights in the back. Mostly, I’m trying to hide the tape grid and the vase rim with foliage so I won’t have to waste flowers trying to hide the mechanics.

I’ve also saved a few extra foliage stems to add in later if the arrangement needs it.

Also, if you think about it, flowers grow this way naturally. The stem and bud emerge from a bush of leaves so that the flower is prominent on the plant.

Place the Flowers

Next, I placed my focal flowers—Apricot Impression tulips—and my complementary focals (Replete daffodils).

I like to use an odd number of focal flowers, in this case five of each type. I also prefer my arrangements to be asymmetrical, so I split the flowers up with one side being “heavier” than the other. I think it helps draw your eye through the whole arrangement.

Sometimes I do add in fillers first and focals last, but in this case, I wanted to use more of the peach daffodils than the yellows, so I put them in first to make sure I had room for them all.

I know it looks very sparse right now, but just trust the process and wait until the next step!

Now add in your filler flowers—in my case, yellow daffodils.

Filler flowers are there to help fill out the arrangement and make it feel abundant and full. Even though the yellow daffodils are not my favorite flower, I can’t deny that the vase looks better with them than without!

As you’re adding in more and more flowers, remember to look at your vase from different angles. Step back frequently and determine whether you like the placement of the flowers.

Add Texture and Small Accents

Lastly, add in the textural elements. This is usually something small that either ties the filler and focal flowers together or has a very different shape or size from the main flowers.

For this I’m using grape hyacinth in a deep purply blue color, small yellow daffodils, and a bit of red maple.

I think this is what helps bring the whole thing together. I love the deep purply blue color that helps make the colors fit into a primary color scheme (red/pink, yellow, blue) and that the shape of the blooms are very different than the daffodils.

They also echo the tulips a little bit with that elongated oval shape. Even though my muscari stems are short, they grow that way naturally, so it kind of makes sense for this arrangement.

I also like the small Tete-a-Tete daffodils dancing above the others. I tried to cut the longest stems of those that I could; however they still ended up being a tad short, so they are sitting high in the vase right now. But they look great!

And here’s the back of the arrangement, which will be up against the wall. This is a great way to save money on flowers for arrangements or to make the most of only a few flowers, by the way. Have all your flowers facing forward and hide the ugly back against the wall.

Creating Your Own Spring Flower Arrangement

To sum up the whole process:

1. Decide how big and where you’ll put the arrangement.
2. Choose a vase that goes with the ingredients and the size of arrangement you want.
3. Tape a grid to support the flowers and add water to the vase.
4. Place foliage and branches first, trying to cover up the vase and tape with the leaves.
5. Place focal flowers in varying heights.
6. Fill in around the focal flowers with supporting blooms, or filler.
7. Add textural elements and small accents.

Place your gorgeous arrangement where you and everyone who sees it can admire the flowers!

Celebrating Spring with Seasonal Flowers

As winter settles in and the garden rests, I find myself reflecting on the beauty of the seasons and the joy that comes from watching nature unfold. Though my garden is quiet now, I love looking back at the flowers I was planting and harvesting last spring. It reminds me of the rhythm of the seasons and the small, joyful moments that come with each new bloom.

I find so much joy in looking at these flowers now, in the heart of winter, and remembering what was blooming in my garden last April. There’s something special about creating fresh, seasonal bouquets—they capture the essence of each moment in the garden, each season’s unique beauty.

When flowers are available year-round, it feels like we miss out on that magic.

We lose the chance to truly celebrate the present season, and with it, the excitement of anticipating what’s to come in the next. There’s a special kind of joy in knowing that every season has its own gift to offer, and for me, that’s what makes the garden—and its bouquets—so much more meaningful.

This spring, I hope you get to celebrate the season by creating your own lovely floral arrangements. I hope these tips helped you add beautiful and meaningful flowers to your own home decorations.

Thanks for reading!