A Floral Metamorphosis

Welcome to Floral Design class!


Our first arrangement was a one-sided design. This is my instructor, the very talented floral designer, Josh, teaching us how to set the shape and height of the design. See the geometric design on the right side of the board? Who knew we would have to do geometry?! One must always work with odd numbers and triangles when designing an arrangement. Here he is starting with leather leaf fern.


The next step is to put in the "line" flower (creates and defines the shape of the design ), which is a wonderfully scented flower called "stock".

Oooops, I guess I forgot to take pics of the next few steps, but I believe he put in the focal flowers next, which are the lime green fuji mums, and then used the daisies and alstromerias (the pink ones). These last ones are called filler flowers.

So there you go...... NOW we had to make one all by ourselves!!

Here we are, trying our best to replicate his masterpiece....

I have to say that it wasn't as easy as it looked. After I was finished, my oasis (the green foam you soak in water ) looked like swiss cheese. I had poked at it so much, changing the positions of the ferns and flowers, it was amazing that it was in one piece.

But....overall, I must say that I was quite pleased with myself !!

Here is mine....

And here is his masterpiece....

So you're probably wondering about the metamorphosis? Well, I loved my arrangement, but had promised my friend that I would bring it to our "neighborhood coffee" she was hosting the following day and she had decorated her home in fall colors.

So I plucked the pink flowers off and went over to my yellow and orange potted mum and snipped off three stems, and placed them where the pink ones were.

Then I spied the pumpkin soup toureen on my counter and substituted it for the grecian urn it was originally created in.

So that is my "first" arrangement ! I know it's not perfect... but I love it!

You know you'll want to check all of the other transformations on Susan's blog, Between Naps on the Porch, so what are ya waiting for?

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