Add Hours to your Flowers

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Add Hours to your Flowers

• And a little information about floral design,
  including bud vases

Original Power Point Created by Kara
Hutchinson Modified by Georgia Agricultural
Education Curriculum Office September 2005
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Add Hours to Your Flowers

• Cut stems at an angle
• Keep flowers hydrated (in water)
• Keep flowers cool
• Keep flowers away from fruits and vegetables
  (they produce gasses that make flowers wilt)
• Feed flowers with regular flower food or diluted
  7-up or sprite (acid kills bacteria and fungus
  and sugar provides food)

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Important Tips for Arrangements

• Clean containers with bleach (kills bacteria and
  fungus)
• Add water as your flowers use it
• Protect from extreme temperatures
• Do not add aspirin to flower water (There are
  many old wives tales about adding aspirin or
  pennies to flower water to make the flower last
  longer, it does not work)
• Recut stems as needed (Stems try to heal just
  like when you get a scab over a cut, by recutting
  the flower can take up water better)

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Types of Flowers

• Primary
• Act as focal point
• More expensive
• More colorful
• Larger
• Secondary/Complementary
• Not always used
• Can use more than one type
• tend to be different shape or color

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Parts of a flower arrangement

• Flowers
• Foliage
• Makes arrangements look larger, fuller and more
  expensive
• Hides mechanics
• Adds contrast to color and texture
• Helps to define shape
• Examples of common shapes include line and mass
  arrangements

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Parts of an Arrangement Cond

• Filler
• Really Cheap
• Adds size to arrangement
• Makes it look more expensive without adding a lot
  of cost
• Fills in holes
• Examples Babys Breath, Heather, Statice, Caspia

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Making an Arrangement

• Mechanics
• Inorganic part of the arrangement
• Helps hold arrangement together
• Examples Bows, wire, foam, container,
  decorations, card holder
• You will be making a bud vase similar to this in
  class.