Materials You Will Need:

a vase
5 yards of 1-1/2" or wider ribbon
sharp gardening pruners
a metal twist-tie
two-dozen South American Roses

In this lesson we are using a mustard rose with burnt orange tips called 'fashion.' This rose can be purchased at romanticflowers.com. The roses that you purchase should be conditioned properly before you begin. Please refer to romanticflowers.com for instructions on conditioning your roses.

	Step 1 You will use one hand to hold the bouquet and the other hand to "arrange" the bouquet. Build the bouquet with one rose at a time, keeping all the flower heads on the same plane. In this lesson we are using the "cinch-point method" to join the flowers together.
	Step 2 The "cinch-point" is the area where all the roses are carefully layered atop one another.
	Step 3 Each rose is added to the bouquet an angle. After a rose is added,
	Step 4 the bouquet is turned a few degrees to create a twisted effect.
	Step 5 The "cinch-point" usually lies immediately under the leaves that are left on the roses. For a loose bouquet, keep more leaves on the stems. For a tight bouquet, take off more leaves to create a higher "cinch-point."
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