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Unless your evening commute involves a detour through the Flower District, the easiest way to get a bouquet on your table by dinnertime is to hit the grocery store. Most places offer a decent selection of roses (and maybe tulips if they’re in season), but you’ll get the biggest bang for your buck from mixed bouquets, which run $5 to $10. The question is: How to transform your budget flowers into a brag-worthy bouquet?

To figure it out, we enlisted Nikelle Orellana-Reyes and Hannah Ross Clarke, the owners of Wylde, a floral shop in Raleigh’s hip warehouse district. The shop is known for its artful, organic arrangements — very different from the plastic-wrapped bouquet from Food Lion that I brought in to the studio (featured flower: daisies that had been spray-painted orange). But they gamely took it from me and got to work.

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