Learn To Make Floral Arrangement with Dolebh Dolen
Deborah Dolen: The main difference in floral design in vases or in containers is the use of wet floral foam. I soak my foam first and then slice it to fit my container. Other designers prepare their containers using dry foam, secure the foam down with green tape, and then wet it post population of flowers.
I disagree because every minute a flower is deprived of water is an hour less they live for enjoyment. One of main goals when designing flowers is to keep the actual flowers selected for the design-in their necessary element of water.
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Designing flowers in containers also makes much more use of greens than designing flowers in a vase would. This is because there are more mechanics to hide-mainly the actual floral foam. Many busy floral shops elect a person just to put the floral foam it, secure it down and cover it all with greens. This allows the actual designer to enter in during the last phase: floral selection, arrangement, color and movement. The designer selected accent pieces and concern themselves with the actual design and not the sub design. A few popular greens used in container design are tree fern, leather leaf, babies breath, monte casino, and ruskus.
Typically when designing a container floral arrangement, the designer selects the focal flower and then selects good contrasting flowers turning the arrangement as they consider the over all design. As with floral design, you do to one side what you did to the other for uniformity.
So if I place a lily to the left of the arrangement, I will be sure to add a lily to the extract opposite side and keep spinning the arrangement working that way. So, in basic floral design you do to one side what you did to the other side.
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