How to Make a Mother’s Day Arrangement with Grocery Store Flowers

I love fresh flowers. Today I am sharing how to make a Mother’s Day Floral Arrangement, using grocery store flowers, for $25.

Fresh flowers make a thoughtful gift that doesn’t have to be expensive. Here are some simple steps to help get you started so you can make a wonderful grocery store flower arrangement.

There are so many places you can buy fresh flowers. There are florists, online sellers, flower marts, street vendors, and the grocery store. I use all of them but usually buy flowers at the grocery store. I bought these flowers at our local grocery store and spent $25 total on these flowers.

When we are having a big party I often buy flowers at the Los Angeles Flower Mart. But when I need a smaller amount I always buy grocery store flowers.

I bought roses and tulips and used some eucalyptus from our tree. I bought these three flowers because three of my blogging friends and I created a three-item challenge. We chose to use tulips, roses, and eucalyptus to make a Mother’s Day gift. I loved this challenge!

If my local grocery store would have had orange tulips I would have bought them. But since these are for my mom, it didn’t really matter that the flowers match my home. Right? Either way, these are so pretty!

How to Arrange Mother’s Day Flowers

I came up with two ways you can make these flowers into a wonderful gift which are wrapping them in paper as a bouquet and arranging them in a vase. Today I am sharing both.

Wrapping Grocery Store Flowers in Parchment Paper

This idea is really easy.

The only thing I don’t like about grocery store flowers is the cheap plastic that they are wrapped in. Nothing is worse than handing someone a bouquet of flowers wrapped in cheap plastic because they scream “I didn’t plan in advance so I ran by the grocery store and picked up some flowers at the last minute”. I have always thought there is so much romance in the thought of my husband planning and thinking about finding the perfect card or flowers. Call me old-fashioned, but it really is the thought that counts.

So why not spend a few minutes to re-package the flowers? I used parchment paper and some satin ribbon and it made such a difference.

All you need to do is start out by unwrapping everything. 

Then stack the flowers.

And wrap them in parchment paper (or brown wrapping paper). And add a ribbon. Don’t they look so much better?

Arranging Grocery Store Flowers in a Vase

Of course, you can put together an arrangement of flowers too. Use a pretty but inexpensive vase and fill it with water. Add the eucalyptus first.

Next, add the tallest flowers (which were the roses). Be sure to cut off about one inch at the bottom of the stems and remove most of the leaves.

I added all twelve roses to the vase.

Next, I added the tulips. Just be sure to cut off an inch at the bottom.

Keep adding the tulips on the outside of the roses and turn the vase to fill in everywhere.

Once all the tulips are added to the vase, add a few more branches of eucalyptus.

Doesn’t this arrangement look wonderful? It looks a lot nicer than the flowers that come in the plastic wrap. Haha.

Mother’s Day flowers can be arranged into a beautiful arrangement, you just need a vase and a few tools, and of course, some grocery store flowers!

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I am thrilled to share the amazing ideas my blogger girlfriends have put together for Mother’s Day.

Happy Happy Nester

Using only tulips, eucalyptus, roses and a few things from her garden, Janine created a beautiful floral bouquet.

Finding Lovely

Jackie from Finding Lovely created a sweet floral arrangement gift for Mother’s Day.

Modern Glam

Ashley from Modern Galm created a grocery store flower arrangement. Isn’t is gorgeous!

I hope our floral ideas have inspired you to create some affordable gifts for Mother’s Day!

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