12 Easy Bouquet Ideas Using Supermarket Flowers

Brighten up your home with a beautiful — and budget-friendly — bouquet using flowers from your local supermarket. With a few quick flower arranging tips from the HGTV Magazine editors, you'll be creating florist-worthy bouquets to enjoy all month long. Read on to see all of the stunning, seasonal blooms.

Let's hear it for filler flowers! These inexpensive blooms are usually the sidekicks, but if you group them together, they really steal the show. To keep them looking tidy, put longer stems in the center of the bunch, then secure with a rubber band.

Flowers: pink and white waxflowers, statice, spirea

Mix up the usual red roses for Valentine's Day by combining them with blue-purple sweat peas. To make the roses look extra lush, try a pro trick called reflexing: Gently flip back a few of the outer layers of petals, leaving the center intact.

Flowers: long-stemmed rose, sweat pea

Welcome spring with fluffy, delicate flowers like viburnum and sweet William in different shades of green, plus a surprise from the produce aisle: artichokes! (Long-stemmed artichokes are ideal; if you can’t find them, stick shorter-stemmed ones onto floral stems or skewers.) For more impact, keep the arrangement monochromatic with a like-color vase.

Flowers: artichoke, green ball sweet William, viburnum

A bug-print vase is an adorable match for colorful tulips. Cut the stems all the same height, but peel off most of the leaves so you can fit more blooms into the vase. Encourage the petals to open by filling the vase with lukewarm water.

Flowers: double tulip, fringed tulip, darwin tulip

Think pink for late spring and go all in with flowers in different shades and a vase to match. This arrangement makes the most of just a few peonies, offsetting them with lower-priced blooms. Cut the outer flowers shorter so they cover the edge of the vase. To help peonies open, hold the stems upside down between your palms and gently rub your hands together.

Flowers: alstroemeria, peony, carnation

Take inspiration from a field of wildflowers. For a small vase like this one, you need only a few stems each of lisianthus and veronica, plus some feverfew to fill in the gaps. The flowers look like little daisies and have a citrusy scent.

Flowers: feverfew, veronica, lisianthus

Filling a pitcher with a big bunch of lavender is super easy, and it gives any room that breezy, summer-in-the-Hamptons feel. This lavender is dried, but you could use fresh; as the stems dry out in the vase, save them to extend their life span.

Flowers: lavender

High summer calls for tropical-looking flowers in sunset colors. You need only three proteas for this arrangement, plus one big leaf. (If you can’t find monstera, a palm works.) Cut the leaf so it’s taller than the flowers, then place the proteas in front.

Flowers: orange and yellow pincushion proteas, kind protea, monstera leaf

Fiery leaves give this arrangement fall flair. Fill the vase with the biggest blooms first, then add the branches. You can forage these from your yard using sharp clippers; just make sure to submerge the ends in water right away. Thinner leaves can wilt quickly, so look for heartier foliage, like from an oak tree.

Flowers: gerbera daisy, sunflower, billy button, oak leaf

This is Halloween in flower form: The black calla lilies resemble batwings, and the celosia look like brains! The pumpkin trees are ornamental eggplants. Cut them about a foot taller than the vase so they don’t get lost among the blooms.

Flowers: celosia, dahlia, pumpkin tree, marigold, calla lily

A dried arrangment is perfect for Thanksgiving, and it can last for years. Start by fanning out the grasses in the vase, then add colorful seedpods and flowers. (Be gentle; the stems are fragile.) Stick the bunny tails in at the end.

Flowers: yellow and orange preserved safflowers, plume grass, eulalia grass, scabiosa, bunny tail