Floral Design and Arranging

Krista · 2024-02-01T19:33:51+00:00

calico20hill I love hearing your tips for floral arrangement, Noni! This year I’m going to try to learn how to better display all the beautiful blooms from t...

Bessie

I grow flowers so that I can pick a bouquet at a moment's notice. My 9b climate readily grows Alstroemeria and annual statice, both of which are great bouquet flowers. I've been staring at a 6' by 6' "beast" of a Dahlia (23049) that overwintered without division. It's planted in a super nice place, a raised bed vegetable garden, and I decided to pick some today.

drewtheflorist

DarcyD
Bonnie Blooms must have a lot of self esteem judging by their pricing...Maybe they should invest a little time in learning about form .

BackyardBouquets_17

A little bit of morning flower therapy.

MissyWeitzel

BackyardBouquets_17 beautiful!

Teddahlia

This may not be the place to post this but why not. I noticed that one of our second year seedlings gets immensely brighter in color in the days after picking the flower. It went from the standard light blend of golden yellow with some dark pink on the center florets to blazing torch of bright orange on a yellow background.
Only have an "after" picture.

Justafewdahlias

Teddahlia
That’s very cool! I have recently encountered a rose & sweet peas that change color. Sweet pea “shift” varieties change colors, “blue shift” goes from pink to purple to blue. My in laws have a rose that starts orange and gradually turns bright pink on the edges (picotee looking) with the rest of the petals turning yellow, but it doesn’t look old or faded as the color changes. I find this to be a fun trait in flowers, almost like 2 varieties in one

calico20hill

I would like to see more of that one

MissyWeitzel

After entering my first show arrangement a couple weeks ago, I'm hooked and I'm excited to do a few for the upcoming midwest conference dahlia show next weekend. While working on my ideas I remembered all the Holly Chapple pillows I bought a couple years ago but haven't used because I don't really do big fancy arrangements often. I am using a big round one not pictured here and it's so much nicer than chicken wire - IF one of the shapes and sizes fits the vessel. Anyway, they're just 2 pieces that snap together and they won't rust like uncoated chicken wire and they don't have sharp edges to poke you either. I've been playing around with them and I love them and thought I would show them to you as another foam free arrangement alternative.

calico20hill

Where does one get those? They look very useful

Juliarugula

calico20hill looks like Amazon has them. You have to use “bouquet pillow cage” as a keyword search unless you want to search through a long list of floral throw pillows. 🤣🤣

MissyWeitzel

calico20hill I ordered directly from Holly's farm. 😊
https://hopeflowerfarm.com/products/holly-pillow-shipping-available

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