How to Make Your Own Cascading Bouquet

Select a dozen large-blossomed flowers and six small-blossomed flowers. For example, grandiose rose varieties serve as excellent large blossoms and the small flowers of baby's breath or shasta daisies create accent to the large ones. These can either be fresh flowers or artificial ones.

Bundle the flowers in your fist, making sure that all of the blossoms are evenly matched. The stems, on the other hand, will be uneven. Cut the bottoms of the flowers' stems until they are all even and straight. You may need to remove up to 2 inches of the stem.

Arrange the flowers into a pleasing pattern while still in your hand. To do this, pull one flower at a time out of the bundle and reinsert it into the bouquet where you want it to be placed. Wrap a rubber band around the center of the stem bundle to keep the bouquet together.

Select three long foliage pieces to add to the bouquet for the cascading part of it. Foliage pieces for a cascading bouquet should be flexible, wispy and long. For example, English ivy, grapevines or fern fronds serve as delicate botanical pieces for a cascading bouquet. Insert the three foliage pieces together into the rubber band of the bouquet on one side. This creates a long, flowing appendage from the bouquet.

Cut a length of silk ribbon from the roll measuring 24 inches. Tie the ribbon around the rubber-banded center of the bouquet stems. Tie it off into a simply bow. The loops and ends of the bow will dangle from the bouquet, blending into the cascading foliage.