Make Beautiful Bottle Flowers at Home!

If you attended our Gardens Aglow event last year, you most likely saw our Bottle Flower garden. We’ve received a lot of questions about this upcycled project – and we’re here to share with you how to bring this magic to your home.

YOU WIL NEED:

  • 8 – 20 oz clear plastic bottles – various shapes
  • Scissors, box cutter is also helpful
  • Candle
  • C9 Lights & stringer wire, or can use LED light strands
  • Christmas light ground stakes and bamboo stakes for stems
  • Black electrical or duct tape
  1. To trim the plastic bottle, cut along the ridge that is right below the label. Use the ridge as a guiding line.
  1. To create the petals, cut equally spaced vertical lines. The vertical cuts should be approximately 3-4 inches in length, to ensure the bulb is covered, or can paint any visible bulbs.
  1. Give the petal shape and form! Make curved edges between the vertical cuts you made in the previous step.
  1. Hold the petals near a candle to warm and bend.
  1. At Heritage, we used C9 bulbs which fit nicely into the mouth of the bottle, and we cut 2-3 slits in the mouth of the bottle to fit it over the sockets of the C9 stringer wire. We spaced flowers at about 2’ lengths, and bought caps to waterproof the unused sockets.
  1. If using small LED light strands, you keep the bottle cap on, poke a hole in the middle and inset light into the cap. (Piercing the cap with scissors then inserting a pen to create a hole that fits the mini lights works great).
  1. Flowers can be run by the light string, or “planted” in the ground using green bamboo garden stakes.