How to Arrange Miniature Roses Wrapped in Paper

Bestow a presentation bouquet of cheerful miniature roses to mark a special event, and save money by arranging it yourself. Create your own professional-looking arrangement to present to a student performer, to give as a hostess gift or to acknowledge a friendship. Select colorful miniature roses from the garden or florist shop. Each small, perfectly formed rose is at the end of a straight stem. Casual spray roses display several miniature roses per stem. Finish a paper-wrapped arrangement with ribbons or raffia.

Wrapping paper
Waxed paper
12 stems miniature roses
3 stems greenery such as leather leaf fern
2 stems fill-flowers such as baby's breath, statice or wax flowers
12 floral water tubes, 3 inches each
1 tbsp. floral preservative
Bucket
Towel
Floral knife or shears
Sharp scissors
Length of ribbon

Instructions

- 1
  Condition garden or florist flowers. Cut garden flowers early in the morning. Prepare a bucket with 8 inches of lukewarm water mixed with 1 tbsp. floral preservative. Cut 1 inch off each stem at a sharp angle. Place flower stems loosely in the bucket and allow them to soak at room temperature for two or three hours.
- 2
  Cut a square each of wrapping paper and waxed paper, measuring 10 inches longer diagonally than the longest flower stem. Lay the papers together on the counter with the waxed paper on top.
- 3
  Select the largest stem of greenery. Select the longest rose. Snip or slice foliage and thorns from the lower 1/3 of the rose stem without damaging the stem's skin. Cut ½ inch off the stem bottom of the rose. Snip ½ inch off the greenery stem end. Insert both stems into a water-filled floral tube.
- 4
  Lay the finished tube diagonally across the paper.
- 5
  Remove foliage and thorns from the next rose. Cut the rose stem within 1 inch of the length of the first rose, place it in a filled tube, and lay it next to the first rose. Repeat with each flower in turn. Intersperse greenery, tucking a stem in with a rose, so that there is greenery on the bottom, in the middle and on top. Do not obscure rose heads with greenery. Arrange the flower heads closely but not overlapping each other.
- 6
  View the arrangement. Tuck each fill-flower stem into a tube with a rose so that it complements the arrangement without overpowering the roses.
- 7
  Fold 5 inches of the papers over the water tubes. Fold one side of the paper over the length of the stems. Fold the other side over the arrangement from the opposite side and roll the paper around the arrangement.
- 8
  Secure the arrangement with a length of ribbon tied in a bow around the middle.

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