Transcript Add Hours to your Flowers

Add Hours to your Flowers
And a little information about floral
design including bud vases
Add Hours to Your Flowers
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Cut stems at an angle
Keep flowers hydrated (in water)
Keep flowers cool
Keep flowers away from fruits and vegetables
(they produce gasses that make flowers wilt)
• Feed flowers with regular flower food or diluted
7-up or sprite (acid kills bacteria and fungus and
sugar provides food)
• Clean containers with bleach (kills bacteria and
fungus)
• Add water as your flowers use it
• Protect from extreme temperatures
• Do not add aspirin to flower water (There are
many old wives tales about adding aspirin or
pennies to flower water to make the flower last
longer, it does not work)
• Recut stems as needed (Stems try to heal just like
when you get a scab over a cut, by recutting the
flower can take up water better)
Type of Flowers
• Primary
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Act as focal point
More expensive
More colorful
Larger
• Secondary/Complementary
– Not always used
– Can use more than one type
– tend to be different shape or color
• Filler
– Really Cheap
– Adds size to arrangement
– Makes it look more expensive without adding a
lot of cost
– Fills in holes
– Examples Baby’s Breath, Heather, Statice,
Caspia
Parts
of
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flower
arrangement
Flowers
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• Foliage
– Makes arrangements look larger, fuller and more
expensive
– Hides mechanics
– Adds contrast to color and texture
– Helps to define shape
– Examples of common shapes include line and mass
arrangements
• Mechanics
– Nonorganic part of the
arrangement
– Helps hold arrangement
together
– Examples: Bows, wire,
foam, container,
decorations, card holder
• You will be making a bud
vase similar to this in class