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Floral Design

Learn how to use floral designs for centerpieces, corsages, tributes, decorations, and gifts. Discover various flowers and materials like roses, snapdragons, bird of paradise, and more. Explore techniques using floral foam, adhesive materials, and cutting tools.

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Floral Design

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  1. Floral Design A few things to take into consideration when throwing flowers into a container!

  2. How to use floral designs • Centerpieces • Corsages/boutonnières • Tributes • Decorations • Gifts Flowers/decorations can tie a table together adding a feeling or style.

  3. Design Materials • Flowers • Mass: creates focal point, takes up space • roses • carnations • asters Anemone Carnation Aster

  4. Design Materials • Flowers (cont.) • Line: creates a line in the arrangement • snapdragon • delphinium • gladiolus Snapdragon Delphinium Gladiolus

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

  6. Design Materials • Flowers (cont.) • Filler: small, foliage, fills in holes • fern/leatherleaf • Baby’s Breath • Statice Purple Statice Baby’s Breath Lily of the Valley

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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?

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