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FROM YOUR RECIPE TO A REAL ORDER

Flower stem calculator

Scale one flower or foliage item across your arrangements. Add your own reserve, round to your supplier’s bunch size, and see the actual purchase quantity.

Your numbers stay in this browser. No account, upload or installation.

Your recipe and supplier unit

Calculate one specific item at a time. Use the usable stem count and price confirmed by your supplier.

Whole number, including zero.

Stems of this one flower or foliage item in each design.

An additive allowance; blank means 0%. Up to four decimal places.

Use your supplier’s real usable count. No standard pack size is assumed.

Non-negative price with up to two decimal places. Blank means unknown.

For example USD, GBP or EUR. Changing this label does not convert your price.

RECIPE-TO-ORDER WORKSHEET

Your stem order

Complete the form to see required stems, whole bunches and purchase cost.

Bunchwise flower stem worksheet



How a recipe becomes a supplier order
1. Scale the design stems
Thirty table arrangements using seven stems of one item each need 210 design stems. This is your recipe quantity, before extra reserve or pack rounding.
2. Add your own reserve
A 12% extra reserve makes 235.2 stems. Round up to 236 whole required stems: 210 for the design plus 26 reserve stems.
3. Buy whole bunches
If your actual supplier bunch contains ten stems, buy 24 bunches: 240 purchased stems. Four stems come from bunch rounding. At USD 20 per bunch, purchase cost is USD 480.


Extra reserve and expected loss are different
This calculator adds a reserve percentage to the design quantity. For 100 design stems, an extra 20% means 120 required stems. Covering an expected 20% loss would instead require 125 stems before bunch rounding, because only 80% would remain. This tool uses the additive reserve model; it does not estimate spoilage.


Use the pack size your supplier actually sells
Bunch counts vary by material, variety, grade and supplier. Enter the usable count for your purchase unit; there is no universal ten-stem bunch. For a variable-weight or grower bunch without a dependable usable stem count, confirm the unit with your supplier before calculating.
Does per-stem pricing change what I buy?
Whole bunch rounding still determines the purchased stems. A per-stem price is multiplied by all purchased stems, including reserve and rounding surplus. Recipe usage cost alone can understate the order you pay for.
What if I need this item in several designs?
Combine compatible quantities before reserve and pack rounding. Two designs needing four stems each can share one ten-stem bunch. Calculating and rounding each design separately would buy two. Keep different varieties, grades, suppliers and delivery dates separate.
What can I print or copy?
A completed calculation creates a plain-text worksheet with your inputs, quantities and cost basis. Print / Save as PDF opens your browser’s print dialog, where you choose paper and save options. No public link or mobile-app transfer is created.


KEEP THE RECIPE FOR YOUR NEXT EVENT
Plan beyond one stem order.
Bunchwise keeps a reusable flower library and recipes, consolidates event ordering, and helps plan workroom tasks on your device. Enter your worksheet in the app to keep planning there; browser results do not automatically sync.
Get it on Google Play
The free app has planning limits. Optional Premium expands them; check the app for current terms.
Bunchwise Today dashboard with event workroom tasks