thank you so much casey for being here i enjoyed when you came before and i learned lots of things about flowers that i had no idea that some that a novice could do and and you said we're going to talk about bud vases and i always think of a bud vases one single flower in a bed base well that works well and sometimes can be very dramatic especially if it's a hydrangea or peony but even a little rose looks really sweet in a boat base it does we're going to go a little bit beyond but budvaces are a good place to start if you're nervous about doing flower arranging not too many flowers it makes a nice impression not a really big vase so we're going to start small but we're going to make a nice impact okay so today these are orchids they're orchids they're dendrobium orchids there's white and then the purpley white ones which are called bombay and they're very simple they're considered a line flower because there's a bunch of blooms on one stem and a line flower and we're just going to build in right in our vase here which has got some water in it already and we're just going to pop these over there for a minute and we're going to pull these in now orchids arrive from thailand usually or from hawaii and they always travel in these little vials of water water because they can't really be kept too chilly to sustain their longevity they have to be kept in water because they're tropical flowers and so what we're going to do is remove the vials before we put them in water and we're going to give them a fresh cut and we're actually going to start with the white ones i remember that's what you said no matter how you get flowers you always give them a fresh cut always give them a fresh cut because even though they got a cut and they've been sitting in water they do start to seal up a little bit every as as the stem starts to break down now you have to be careful when you undo your your weave together yes they do and you don't want to just go swinging them out because they might fling the buds across the room and then you don't have your buttons to open so what we usually do is unfurl them a bit and and lay them out so we have an easy access and so we see what we have and if you're buying orchids this is what you want where some of the blooms are open and some of them are not right so you have longer longer beauty longer beauty and the buds you want to look for they want it to be green you don't want them to be yellow or brown or or and you want them to be perky kind of like a fuchsia bloom before it pops um so you know they're going to continue to open some of the lower blooms maybe have been or a little bit brown because they've opened already so you can just remove those if they're looking bad because then that'll give more energy to the flower to open so like when you deadhead your garden so we're going to get use most of the blooms though they're in pretty good shape i may not remove any and we see we have quite a long stem to work into our vase but we're going to cut a little bit of it off i'm going to pull the vial off very simply and grab my cutters and i'm going to cut at an angle do you save those vials and use them for i have in the past and then i always get to the point where i never use them and so i pitched them and you can buy them very reasonably so sometimes i think i'll use those and i don't so um i'm going to give another cut to our stem here because it was just chatting away there and our stems close up in about 10 seconds and i'm just going to pop that right clip it put it in water put in and how we're going to build this one is we're going to clip and we're just going to keep placing all the way around with the white ones and then we're going to add our purple so if you want to go ahead and slide off a vial there and leave yourself about four inches or so on your stem yep and we're just going to go around and round a circle so go ahead and lay that in there and let it arch out naturally already looks great we use these often when you've got a situation where you need it to last a long time maybe it's an open house for a house that's going to be sold and they don't want to worry about fussing with the flowers so you get orcas and you put these all over the house in different rooms and it's just beautiful how it all ties together put that last one in now i noticed that some of these are down in the vase is that okay you can pull them off if your stem's a little bit short but what it does add because we're using a vase with a wide opening it actually adds a little bit of girth in there and they're not necessarily in the water holds the stage so we only have water up to about there now we're going to add our purple so we have set our paste here with a nice rim of white which is makes it sort of a nice in the tray we just call them dendros makes a little bit easier about four inches again so we're doing them all doing all about the same and then we're just going to slide these now more in the center right in there they're going to stand up a little bit more because you've added the other ones first giving it a little bit of architecture in there interior add this one in and just nice thin stem i always think of orchids as being such a delicate flower they're really quite hearty they are right get that in the stem let's get it outside that's all right i thought it went in too easy and then we have our last one and i think we're missing one right here so i'm going to angle it out towards us and voila a beautiful spray of orchids okay very simple and in a bud vase and it fills that that nice rim very very uh very nicely and very tightly all right let's set this one behind us so that you can show us on these are the most gorgeous roses these are so this is another idea for a bud vase and this is happens now we have the exact same style of vase oh and you've got two different kinds of flowers and we have two different flowers which we're going to use and um if you see from the example here we are not don't have quite enough flowers to fill the whole thing and make it look quite uniform so i think they just kind of flop they would and sometimes it doesn't look as pretty you want it to look more compact more organized like this one is and we've layered it sort of a ladder so we have our lowest flower is the most full and we have this nice fullness here and then our second row is a little bit medium and then our tallest rose is the smallest so okay the rule we use is tallest smallest lowest largest tall small slow large and just aesthetically more pleasing because you wouldn't want to put a giant flower way up top it would look top heavy right and if we don't have enough flowers to fill in we actually use gems or um or some this is actually broken seashells and i can use sand you can use marbles anyway it holds your stems together so we're going to show you how to do that okay but the first thing we need to do is clean our roses and uh not too much today usually there's thorns on three different places on a rose but these are wonderful there's none at all and we're just going to remove the greenery and we just stand up the stem and spin it around and i might actually keep that greenery because it's not going to be below the water line no would you like to do this one okay and i'll do the tallest one here leaving the greenery up top okay so those are our three roses and they're in various stages of opening and how we do this one is we actually lay them down on the table to get our design that way you can that way we can just see it and not have to sit there and try to juggle it then we take our filler flower which today is solidago and this one only comes in yellow but it's absolutely beautiful and it's just starting to open all these tons of tons of little flowers and they do have quite a bit of action going on the stem so again we want to take a look at what we have these all came off one stem wow and they all shoot right it doesn't take much to do so we're going to undo them all and see if we have one that's a little bit more tighter this one looks like pretty tight that one's tight too so these are going to go on the taller part so you're just you're just kind of laying we are we're going to clean them a little bit we're going to see who qualifies for where next the cuts makes the cut yes i'm going to lay those in there because we want to tie it in and don't want to see too much stem action there so we'll probably take about five pieces we'll flank that one and then we'll do maybe three at the bottom so this is how it's going to look but we're going to clean it up a little bit to clean salidago since there's no thorns we put our fingers where we want to keep we slide down the rest of it and then we have that to work with so we're going to do that for all of this set that we've got picked out here because these will all work and pull those off so it doesn't do well if you've just had a manicure but we don't worry about that sort of thing we're working with flowers not when we're in the business no wonderful easy cleaning yeah all right we're almost there actually for the set so what we're going to do is lay them all down maybe take our tall small salidago and then we have our tallest rose and we're going to lay down let's do actually i hadn't thought about building it on a flat surface that's a great idea it is so rewarding because you can exactly see without all the jumbling around what you want to do so then that one and then that one and that is covering up and that's covering up and then this one we'll have here and then these two will have right at the bottom so this is how our bud vase is going to look how pretty isn't that fun so from here you think okay well i don't think that's going to work so we need to trim some of it off and we've got some rubber bands i've got them here oh okay so i'm going to trim the most of the length off just to make it easier but i'm not going to commit to the final length yet this is just to make it a little bit easier to put a rubber band on and what we want to do is just slide a very simple area here we go oh there we go i think we only need possibly just one oh and we'll just double this one up and slide it up the stems make sure we get everybody in there and this is just going to help organize your stems and keep everything together so it doesn't start moving right you're trying to arrange it right so now we know that's what we want now we have to determine well how tall should we make this we don't want to go too tall we sort of want this collection of of salidago to be low and just above where the vase line is so we simply bring it so you don't see all those stems right not everybody likes that so we're going to bring our vase to the edge of the table we're just going to line it up to where it would hit inside we give it a mark here and then we give it a trim and you're going at a little bit of an angle absorb water right absorb water we don't want to sit flat at the bottom of the vase and then i'm going to wear these things i know you're good then we're going to put it in there now you think well gosh it's not really wobbly right so it helps our support system when we need these right i thought you put those in first well if you put them in first it's hard it won't the stems bash a little bit and then they can't really sit up so you actually put them in after okay so you hold it up still like this and you just feed it and i see why these little ones would really work for the bud base exactly the big marbles would be a little bit harder a little bit harder but they still do the trick so you can just put them in around and then you move your vase around and fill in and you can even do this in a clear vase so because they look pretty right the shadows or if you're trying to incorporate a color that maybe doesn't come in flowers like say turquoise is one of the colors that you're trying to work into your arrangement flowers don't come in that color maybe the container is maybe you can't find one so you get some gems that are turquoise and it's a good idea sure thing gives your accent color right so there we are now it's holding it holding up just fine well casey once again you just create these masterpieces and it makes all of us think we can do it too thank you so much you're very welcome