Flower Arrangement Steps and Techniques
Are you curious about the steps, techniques, and preservation methods of flower arrangement? This article contains comprehensive content. Below, the editor provides you with detailed answers.
Often in life, we see beautiful flower arrangements by others, but we don't know how they are done. Today, I will teach you some干货 (practical knowledge) about flower arrangement. Pay attention, and knowledge will come to you!
Types of Flower Arrangement
· Hanging Piece Flower Arrangement ·
Understanding flower arrangement from the perspective of color palettes is simple, but there are also methods to understand flower arrangement from the perspective of containers, such as bottle arrangements, pot arrangements, baskets, hanging pieces, etc. Hanging piece arrangements often involve inserting a few flowers into hanging lamps or wall hangings, adding artistic beauty to the hanging pieces and making the room vibrant. Nowadays, there are some new hanging piece containers, such as transparent small bottles and bulb-shaped small vases, which are very fresh and lovely.
· Basket Style Flower Arrangement ·
Basket style flower arrangements are commonly used in daily life, especially for festive celebration baskets. This type of arrangement often uses flowers with larger shapes, such as roses, peonies, chrysanthemums, carnations, and dendrobium orchids.
· Wood Box Series ·
As the name implies, the wood box series uses wood boxes as containers for flower arrangement. This is a European style of flower arrangement, often used as a table decoration, usually small in size and used as an accent.
· Pot Style Flower Arrangement ·
Compared to the height of bottle arrangements, pot style arrangements are shorter containers. Therefore, from a human perspective, what is often seen is the top view and the front and side views, so special attention should be paid to these angles when arranging flowers.
· Bottle Flowers ·
Bottle flowers use bottles as containers for flower arrangement. Since bottles have a certain height, even if the principle of not exceeding 1.5-2 times the height of the container is followed, there is still some vertical height. Bottle flowers have a classical beauty, which is related to the elegant shape of the bottle. There is a principle in bottle flower arrangement: "One or two straight, three or four slanted." For a large bouquet of bottle flowers, they should be crossed and staggered.
· Wild Style Flower Arrangement ·
Wild style flower arrangement refers to the selection of materials, meaning that any kind of wild flowers and grasses can be chosen. Randomly selecting some unknown wild fruits, the choice of materials depends entirely on personal preference, creating a unique and wild charm.
· Bamboo Tube Style Flower Arrangement ·
Bamboo tube style flower arrangement was originally popular in China and later spread to Japan. This style has a unique Eastern charm and emphasizes natural expression, with graceful simplicity and elegant brightness.
Forms of Flower Arrangement
· Staircase Style ·
Like a staircase, each flower has a distance, but not necessarily equal, as long as there is a sense of stairs. Point-shaped flowers are more suitable, such as roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, bird of paradise, and tulips.
· Overlapping Style ·
Any flat leaves or flowers can be expressed using this technique, such as galaxy leaves, melon leaves, cymbidium leaves, peony leaves, sunflowers, sunflowers, and sliced corn, all of which can be overlapped with small gaps.
· Piling Style ·
The characteristic of the piling style is that there are many materials or colors, with regular waves like ocean waves. The stems are short, and there are no gaps between flowers. Materials such as roses, carnations, star flowers, peacock flowers, and even stones can be used, suitable for expressing the base color.
· Focal Point ·
The focal point is the most prominent point in the work, visible from the front or side. Special shapes, colors, and larger flowers are best. If the flowers are small, there should be more to form a focal point, such as lilies, daylilies, solitary flowers, paradise birds, banana flowers, and butterfly orchids, all of which can be used as focal materials.
· Group Style ·
This technique is suitable for various flower shapes, as long as the same type and color of flowers are grouped (more than 2 branches) and zoned (one zone can have two or more different groups). However, there should be a distance between each group.
· Flat Layout Style ·
"Flat layout" is as literal as it sounds. It is flat with no height levels, so it is one of the techniques for covering the bottom with floral foam. To create variety, various materials can be used as long as it looks like a single plane.
Techniques for Flower Arrangement
· Choose Good Cut Flower Materials ·
Common cut flower materials include peonies, tree peonies, gladioli, roses, raspberries, chrysanthemums, irises, willows, roses, lotus flowers, and peonies.
· Master Cut Flower Quality ·
Cut the stems when the buds are not fully open. If buying from a flower shop or market, choose branches that are budding, fresh, free from pests and diseases, and have both flowers and leaves.
· Choose a Good Vase ·
The vase should be simple, elegant, and clean. The shape and size should match the stems. To keep it stable, you can place a few small stones at the bottom of the vase to avoid being top-heavy and to add decoration.
· Pay Attention to Water Quality ·
The water for flower arrangement is best "rainwater." If using tap water, let it sit in a jar for three days before use. The water in the bottle should not be left unchanged and should be changed daily. At night, you can move the vase outdoors to receive rain and dew.
· Special Treatment ·
For peonies and tree peonies, you can burn the base of the stems with a match to make them last a few more days. For roses, placing them in sugared water can keep them fresh for 9 days.
Tools for Flower Arrangement
· Flower Arrangement Containers ·
Containers can shape the flowers. Choose according to the type of flower arrangement you want to do. There are many types, including glass and colored glass containers, plastic containers, ceramic containers,藤, bamboo, and grass woven forms, metal containers, and wooden containers.
· Tape ·
Usually used to wrap around the outside of wire, especially for processed flower materials, to prevent dehydration. There are many colors to choose from, depending on the color of the stem.
· Wire ·
22 gauge and 24 gauge wire are commonly used in flower arrangement to fix the shape and lengthen the stems.
· Special Scissors and Knives ·
Flower knives are used to cut stems and branches, depending on the material being cut.
· Wire Mesh ·
Often used in large baskets to increase the support of floral foam and to fix the foam.
· Floral Foam ·
Floral foam is a highly absorbent chemical product used to hold flowers in place. It has good water retention and is easy to use. Floral foam comes in fresh and dried forms.
Preservation of Flower Arrangement
· Preservation Method 1 ·
Enlarging the cut surface to increase the water absorption area by cutting the base of the woody flower stems diagonally or splitting them, or by hitting the base of the stems with a heavy object to crack them.
· Preservation Method 2 ·
Hot water immersion method: Soak the base of herbaceous flowers in 80℃ water for about 30 seconds, which is beneficial for water absorption, sterilization, and preservation.
· Preservation Method 3 ·
Beer preservation method: Adding a little beer to the water in the arrangement can extend the flowering period.
· Preservation Method 4 ·
Medication preservation method: Adding 1/3000 aspirin solution or 1/2000 potassium permanganate solution to the vase can extend the flowering period by about one week.
· Preservation Method 5 ·
Tea water immersion method: Inserting rootless flowers into strong cold tea water will not wither for about one week.
Steps of Flower Arrangement
· Prune Flower Stems ·
First, remove the残枝败叶 (withered branches and leaves) of the flowers and cut them to the desired length according to the style.
· Fix Flower Stems ·
To make the flowers pose as you imagine, usually two thick stems are taken at the mouth of the vase, crossed at the diameter length of the mouth for fixation.
· Insertion Sequence of Flower Stems ·
Usually, it is easier to insert flowers first and then leaves, as this makes it easier to lower the height of the flowers when inserting leaves. The correct sequence should be selecting materials, inserting background leaves, and then arranging the flowers.
The above content about preservation methods and flower arrangement steps and techniques is for reference by netizens, hoping to solve your problems.