Floral Design

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Floral Design

• A few things to take into consideration when
  throwing flowers into a container!

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How to use floral designs

• Centerpieces
• Corsages/boutonnières
• Tributes
• Decorations
• Gifts

Flowers/decorations can tie a table together
adding a feeling or style.
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Design Materials

• Flowers
• Mass creates focal point, takes up space
• roses
• carnations
• asters

Carnation
Anemone
Aster
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Design Materials

• Flowers (cont.)
• Line creates a line in the arrangement
• snapdragon
• delphinium
• gladiolus

Snapdragon
Delphinium
Gladiolus
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Design Materials

• Flowers (cont.)
• Form flowers unique shapes, beauty
• Bird of Paradise
• Iris
• Orchid

Bird of Paradise
Orchid
Iris
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Design Materials

• Flowers (cont.)
• Filler small, foliage, fills in holes
• fern/leatherleaf
• Babys Breath
• Statice

Purple Statice
Lily of the Valley
Babys Breath
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Design Materials

• Holding flowers
• floral foam (most widely used)
• AKA Oasis
• soft, very absorbent, and lightweight
• chicken wire (support large, heavy stems)
• pins/picks
• holds a single flower in place

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Design Materials

• Adhesive Materials
• waterproof tape
• secures oasis in the container
• stem wrap (floral tape)
• stretchy, sticks only to itself
• used in corsages, for hiding wires
• floral clay
• sticky, similar to Play-dough
• anchors pins and prongs against containers
• hot glue

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Design Materials

• Cutting Tools
• Floral Knife
• used on stems only (keeps from dulling)
• Florist Shears
• can be used on stems - but it pinches them
  (damage to xylem)
• Ribbon Shears
• Wire Cutters

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Review

• In what ways can one use floral designs?
• What are plant materials used?
• What are tools/ equipment used?
• What do you think is also important for floral
  design?