Create a Fresh Floral Table Runner for Spring or Easter

Use fresh flowers to create a blooming table runner for your spring or Easter celebration! Tutorial includes flower arrangement longevity tips and additional floral inspiration.

 Easter’s on its way, and I’m hopping down the bunny trail with steps to create a fresh flower arrangement as a runner for your Easter or spring table!

And as it’s the third Monday of the month I’m joining my blogging friends to share some floral inspiration and Monday Morning Blooms! You’ll find my floral friends’ links to their blooming creations at the bottom of this post.

Our common theme for this week’s edition of Monday Morning Blooms was an Easter arrangement. I’ve been wanting to create a fresh floral table runner, a variation on this fall floral and edible runner, that uses dried hydrangeas.

To create this fresh flower table runner, I started with some chicken wire. You can find chicken wire in small rolls at the craft store and larger rolls at the garden center. I found my chicken wire in a 18 by 39-inch roll on Amazon for around $8. (Your chicken wire doesn’t have to be white, galvanized is fine.)

I stopped in Dollar Tree to see what I could use as a base for my table runner and found plastic storage containers, sold in packs of two. { Yippee, 2 for $1 and reusable for food storage! } The dimension of my containers is 5 1/2 inches wide by 8 inches long and 2 inches deep.

Cut your chicken wire about 4 inches wider and longer than your container, so you have a couple of inches of wire on each side to bend and place inside your container. If you find your chicken wire doesn’t want to stay in place, use waterproof floral tape, running a couple of strips across the width of your container to secure it.

 After the chicken wire is in place, arrange the containers down the center of your table. Now they’re ready to be filled with a floral preservative / water solution to help prolong the life of your flowers.

The viburnum by my Potting Shed is covered in fluffy white snowballs. . .the only snowballs you want to see in April!

I cut some snowballs to add the floral runner. Viburnum stems are woody so I used my vegetable peeler to remove the outer layer of the wood of the branch to help the stems ‘drink’ and stay hydrated and fresh.

Start with your larger flowers, adding them to your containers, making sure the stems stay submerged in your water solution. This will be easier as you add more flowers and you have stems that criss-cross in your containers.

In addition to snowball viburnum, I used some pink and blue hydrangeas, white alstroemeria and pink Charmelia, that I had leftover from a previous arrangement. Both alstroemeria and Charmelia are long-lasting flowers that will look fresh up to two weeks.

I tucked in some faux eggs for a little Easter decoration and as filler to add along the length of the runner.

Bunny egg plates are framed with a garland of flowers on scalloped plates and white chargers. . .

And served up on white wicker placemats, appropriately, by Bunny Williams 🐰 for Ballard Designs. ;)

Bunny ears provide napkin rings for our Easter table. . .

I used alternating colors of pink and blue! 🐰

This is a fun way to add flowers to the length of your table that you can do anytime of year! Use wet floral foam if you prefer, trimming your blocks of foam to fit your containers. I’m a fan of chicken wire, as it can be reused.

Here are few tips to help extend the life of your flowers in your arrangement:

 Cut your flower stems at a 45 degree angle for maximum water uptake and remove any leaves below the water line.

Always add the floral preservative packets to your vase water that come with your flowers. If you don’t have any floral preservative, you can make your own with this easy formula.

 Check your water level to top it off if necessary. Some flowers like hydrangeas are heavy drinkers.

 If you’re using cut hydrangeas, use the alum-dipping method to keep them from wilting.

Keep your flower arrangement away from heat (like vents blowing) or direct sunlight.

Change your vase water every other day if possible.

Easter Table Details:

Bunny Egg Plates / Pottery Barn, several years ago, used here

Dinner Plates / Mikasa Endearment

Bunny Napkin Rings, Chargers, Tablecloth / HomeGoods

Flatware / Mikasa Cameo Gold

Goblets / Mikasa French Countryside

White Wicker Placemats / Ballard Designs

Napkins / PIer 1

Eggs / Target

Visit my talented blogging friends to see their blooming inspiration this week:

Pam at Everyday Living

Lidy at FrenchGardenHouse

Shirley at Housepitality Designs

Hop over HERE, for additional blooming centerpieces and Easter table inspiration.

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