If your are deciding to decorate your house, office or for that matter any place with flowers, than you might probably need to know some things about different flower arrangements and designs. Floral arrangements and decorations is a difficult task but at the same time it gives you the space to be creative and come up with new and innovative styles. Here you can find some handy tips that will help you with your doubts regarding decoration with flowers and their different arrangements that you can try yourself. You will also find some advices on how to combine the different types of flowers and arrange them so as to make them enhance the look of your house or your wedding or your party.
Let us provide you with some important tips and advices along with some specialised treatments, which you need to treat your flowers with, to elongate the life span of your flower arrangement and thus achieve the results that you desire.
- Before starting with a flower arrangement you need to pick
the right kind of flowers.
- The flowers that you pick should not be fully bloomed but
in the form of buds that have bloomed a little but not too
much so that the flower arrangement can last longer.
- As soon as you cut them from the plant, you will need to
put them in water so that they remain fresh for a longer time.
- Cut flowers should be ideally kept in a cool environment;
anywhere between 65 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Avoid putting the flowers atop electrical equipments or
near direct sunlight and heating.
- Leaves that will be below the waterline should be removed.
- Once cut from the plant, the flowers should be kept in a
special flower solution as soon as possible. But if that is
not handy then, you have an alternative of keeping them in
a bucket or a vase filled with warm water.
- You will need to re-cut the stems and change the water every two or three days.
There are some 8 basic flower arrangement designs that you can use. These are listed below.
* Horizontal Arrangements:
Here the flowers are arranged in a horizontal manner in a shallow container. You can fill the focal area with filler flowers and foliage.
* Vertical Arrangements:
In Vertical arrangement, flowers are arranged in a vertical fashion in a vase. Here you have to use flowers with long stems.
* Triangular Arrangements:
In this kind of arrangement, both vertical as well horizontal arrangements are taken into use. In this the width is less than the height. Fill in the filler flowers and foliage in a triangular fashion.
* Crescent Arrangements:
In Crescent form of arrangement you have to make use of curved line flowers to follow the crescent form. Filler flowers and foliage should be filled in and around the focal flowers.
* Oval Arrangements:
In this arrangement longest flowers are placed in the focal area and then preceded with shorter flowers to give it an oval shape.
* Minimal Arrangements:
In Minimal arrangement insert vertical line flowers to determine the height, and secure the horizontal line flowers to give the basic outline of the arrangement.
* The lazy "S" or "Hogarth's Curve" Arrangements:
Here you have to bend the stems of flowers into gentle curves and then place focal flowers around the lines of upper and lower curves. Add filler blossoms and foliage around the central part keeping the 'S' structure intact.
* Free Standing Arrangements:
In this arrangement use a shallow container and fill it with flowers on all sides in a standing position. At last to integrate the design add filler blossoms and foliage.
Apart from these you can even try your different ideas and styles according to your choice to make your floral arrangement look more gracious, attractive, appealing and beautiful. You can also use different flowers to make your arrangement more colourful.
Now days artificial flowers are also increasingly used for flower arrangements. But these artificial flowers cannot match the freshness and charm of the real flowers; also they carry artificial scents that cannot beat the natural fragrance of real flowers. At last you can be as creative as you can while creating your own flower arrangement be it with real fresh flowers or artificial silk flowers.
Many florists sell readymade flower arrangements, you can buy it from them at cheap rates if you are not willing to do it yourself.