With fall comes a bounty of warm colors that make the landscape blaze with the reds and oranges of the season. Capture the beauty of the season and bring fall into your home with a floral basket. An autumnal basket brightens any space and looks festive on your table. Try your hand at creating your own fresh arrangement, customized entirely to your tastes and whichever fall occasion you are enjoying from football tailgating to Thanksgiving. Making your own arrangement may require a bit of patience, but you will be rewarded with an eye-catching, distinctive fall basket.
Prep your basket
Prepare the basket by lining the inside with plastic. Load the glue stick in the glue gun and allow to heat for few minutes. While it's heating, cut the plastic so it will completely cover the inside of the basket. When the glue is hot, carefully apply the glue to the edges of the plastic. Press the plastic against the basket, folding as necessary, to set in place. You may need to complete this process in small sections to prevent the glue from cooling before you can attach it to the basket.
Cut the florist foam so it will fit inside the basket with about 1 inch of the foam showing above the basket's brim. In a bucket, mix plant food in water as per instructions on the food package and soak the florist foam in the mixture. Put the soaked foam into the basket. It should fit snugly inside.
Under running water, use scissors to clip at least 1 inch off the bottom of your flower stems at an angle. Immediately place the flowers in water until you are ready to work with each stem.
Remove any lower leaves that would otherwise be pushed into the foam. Cut pieces of floral wire equal to the lengths of each stem. Wrap wire around each stem, starting right beneath the flower and continuing all the way down the stem. Secure the wire beneath the bloom with a small piece of florist tape.
When all of the stems are wired and taped in place, begin arranging the flowers. Begin by inserting the largest flowers into the foam toward the center of the basket. Work your way outward, moving onto the smaller flowers. Turn the basket as you go and add flowers evenly to all sides.
Once all of the flowers have been added, fill in any spaces between flowers with greens.
Finish off the basket by tying a festive fall ribbon around the basket, complete with a bow, and securing it with a drop of hot glue.