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How to make a beautiful bouquet of roses

Your easy step-by-step guide. - by Melissa King
  • 29 Oct 2020

Bring your roses indoors and create this pretty bouquet to fill your rooms with a sweet fragrance and your eyes with all their loveliness. 

WATCH: Melissa visits Rankins Roses and make a gorgeous rose bouquet

Don't have roses on hand? You can still make this bright, cheerful display with camellias or early flowering ranunculi. Don't forget how important foliage is for adding different shapes to your arrangement. 

Here are 9 easy steps to make your rose bouquet.

Gather your supplies

  • Your favourite roses or other blooms (in this bouquet, we used a yellow rose called "Mother and Daughter" and pink roses called "Mother and Child" and "Avignon"
  • Stems of foliage
  • Vase or jug
  • Floral food

You'll also need

  • Secateurs
  • String or twine
  • Scissors

Note: To help your arrangement last longer, recut the stems and also change the water every 2-3 days.

Here's how

Step 1

Lay out the flowers and foilage on a table. A vase of roses is gorgeous in its own right, but foliage makes it look more natural – it complements your bouquet.

In this arrangement, we've used variegated lucky bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana), umbrella fern (Sticherus flabellatus), silver dollar gum (Eucalyptus cinerea) and ink berry or pokeberry (Phytolacca americana).

How to make a rose bouquet step 1
Nicole Cleary

Step 2

Cut stems of blooms and foliage at an angle so they absorb more water and don't sit flat on the bottom of the vase. 

How to make a bouquet or roses
Nicole Cleary

Step 3

Gently remove leaves from blooms and foliage stems that will sit in water. 

How to make a rose bouquet step 3
Nicole Cleary

Step 4

Select the bloom that will be central to your arrangement. 

How to make a rose bouquet step 4
Nicole Cleary

Step 5

Add other blooms and foliage around central bloom, adjusting heights and twisting and tweaking the arrangement into a tight, compact bunch, where every bloom is in sight. 

How to make a rose bouquet step 5
Nicole Cleary

Step 6

Tie stems with a piece of string or twine. 

How to make a rose bouquet step 6
Nicole Cleary

Step 7

How to make a rose bouquet step 7
Nicole Cleary

Step 8

Fill vase with water to about two-thirds, then add floral food. 

Step 9

Place your arrangement in a vase.

How to make a rose bouquet step 9
Nicole Cleary

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Melissa King
Melissa King is one of Australia’s most popular and respected garden experts and television presenters. Melissa joins the Better Homes and Gardens team as its respected garden expert. “For a gardening presenter, this is the pinnacle and I’m beyond excited to be working alongside people I have admired for years,” says Melissa.

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