
Floret Farm’s A Year in Flowers: Designing Gorgeous Arrangements for Every Season Kindle Edition
Downloaded 6/21/2022
Started 7/13/2022
Floral design was tough to learn.
Uses natural floral design
Need process and learn flower farming and mentors
The author is a farming florist.
Florist got to harvest from the field
She is also a sharer of knowledge
- Get all equipment
- Need workspace need high table with adequate light
- Have a floral toolbox (use rubber band #19 for bounces of flowers) (page 121) need pruner’s
- Mechanics like chicken wire and floral pillow, use flower frogs
- Pin frogs
- Floral adhesive clay
- Cage frogs
- Hair pin frogs insert stems at any angle
- Vessel
- Need container for arranging
- Stay away from fishbowl, but keep glass available for use
- Sourcing
- Use local supplies (quality matters)
- Some flowers are void f personality
- Pay attention for what is growing in your backyard
- Floral wholesalers (could cause issues)
- Local Farms
- Each farmer has their own niche
- Grow your own cut flowers
- Forage: free material like wreath making
- Respect plant…use pruners (don’t rip)
- Caring for cut flowers
- Each flower is different
- Get max. vase life
- Use high quality clippers
- Harvest earlier when it cools
- Flowers should be put in water
- Cut when flower is 1/3rd open
- Cut for a longer stem
- Get max. vase life
- How to care for flowers after harvest
- Remove lower leaves
- Always use clean buckets or bases
- Let flower rest before arranging
- Cut stems again to encourage drinking water
- Keep your flowers in a cool spot
- Hydration p. 282
- Need to be pumped up
- For black eyed Susan’s add some bleach to the vasr
- Floer food
- Sugar
- Acidifier
- Biocide
- Change water every other day
- Add preservative
- Add hydration products [can increase life by 60%)
- Quick dip
- Products are:
- Hydra flora
- OVD from Chrysal
- Design:
- Mechanics
- Vace
- Colors
- FOR SELF EXPRESION
- Warm and cool colors (yellow with pink is warm) (blue with pink is cool)
- Shades of greens are limitness
- Layering you need to give the eyes a place to rest. Like having 2 or three layers.
- Work on color bridging to attach two different colors.
- Mimic the way plants grow
- Design fundamentals
- Consider the viewpoint
- Need to modify ingrediency
- Ingredientes should be about twice the height of the vase
- Work around parameter
- Pace yourself p. 68 (one at a time)
- Know when to stop
- Hone your skills
- Structural foliage
- Textural ingrediencies
- Vines
- Berries
- Branches
- Pods
- Firms
- Supporting flowers
Stems with sprays of flowers
- Focal flowers ****
- Airal Accents -that will draw people in*****
- Essential techniques
- Create a strong base
- Keep the center open ****
- Think of a solid base or vessel
- Structural foliage
- For a vase “compress chicken wire”
- Focal flowers are the stars of your creation
- Centerpiece
- So it will hold wire or block view
- Build from the outside in ****
- What’s a flower frog?*****
- Hand tied market bouquet
- Make a bridal bouquet
- Twist stems at a 25 degree angle
- Some flowers like to be shown off by themselves (need heavy vase)
- There are also seasonal bouquets
- In spring life returns to the garden
- Wild and Refined Bridal Bouquet
- Make a flower crown 39%
- Discussion how to create a crown
- Ingredients
- Reduce weight
- 43%
- Moody Blues Vignette
- Authors likes sweet peas started he garden farm
- She has grown over 100 types
- Author has made over 40,000 market bouquet
- Cosmos is the best to have fresh cut flowers (last longest in bouguetes
- Can make a wrist corsage
- Sturdy ingrediencies
- Listed at 46%
- Remove flowers from stems
- Swirl glue on the center of the cuff
- Stick layer of fine moss
- Apply enormous amount of glue to the back of flowers
- Dip with more glue and moss
- Use textural ingredient’s
- Glue any lose spots that are open
- Sun flowers are the best, easy to grow, birds likw the seed
- Black and white bridle bougees
- Make an evergreen wreath for a gift! 58%
- Focus on base
- What needs to be highlighted
- Bachelor button is good for 6-8 days
- Black eye Susan face life is 7-10 days
- What’s face life?
- Branches have a face life of 7 days
- Grass has face life of 5-7 days’
- Explained the droopy test 78%
- Stressing local flowers that are seasonal
- Good reference material (for records 79%) for supplies and stuff, plus web pagew for various suppliers
- Shared her acknowledgment for writing this book. Also acknowledged Martha Steward
- Good index for refences.
The book talked about Textural ingrediance likr (Vines, Berries, Branches, etc.) but did not “get” the reason why to have these!). It’s the same for supporting flowers. Maybe a little more could be written about color/shape. I enjoyed how te focal flowers were addressed along with using airal accents to draw people into your floral design. Learned that when making a centerpiece I should start on the outside and work in for my focal display. Should also use a solid base or vessel. “Build” from the outside in. I don’t think I was smart enough for this book. Though I liked the step-by-step plan on building a wreath. It seemed as there was a lot of pictures with little meaningful text. Question…. What’s a flower frog?
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