Fresh Cut Flower Mixture To Be Pleasingly Assembled

Florists and home designers can use many fresh cut flower varieties in their every day designs. While the options for the designer are many, this will only cover a small amount, as the list would be too numerous for space allowed. Each flower family can have hundreds of species in it that could be available for your use. As you become familiar with what is offered you will find what your preferences are.

Every florist I have ever met or worked with had favorite flowers that they preferred to work with. Some florists love to work with mums. Many of the species of mums come with multiple blooms on each stem. For instance the daisy or cushion mums can both typically have multiple blooms on their stem. They are commonly found in either white or yellow, though other colors are on the market. These multiple bloom flowers create a burst of color in a vase or they can be cut apart to be placed in a short container such as a bowl or cup, or one of various other containers available for placing floral arrangements into. Others in the mum family would be the Fuji, poms and spider mums.

At weddings and at Valentines Day roses are the most popular flower used. Found in a multitude of colors, they are popular in many designs. They are grown in home gardens as well as in hot houses, making them available to the floral industry all year. Spray roses are also popular; found in many colors they have multiple blooms on each stem as opposed to the favorite long stem rose, which only has the one bloom.

Another favorite in floral designs is the lily family. These come in both single blooms as well as the stem having three to five blooms. The Asiatic family are found in orange, yellow and white. The large bloom can be used as the main flower or depending on the designer, can just be another bloom in the mixed vase.

Tropicals are bold and a great way to make a statement when arranging flowers. Depending on whom you ask in the floral industry, lilies could be considered as a tropical flower. Some of the more popular ones to use are ginger, protea, anthuriums, bird of paradise, calla lily (unrelated to the lily family), heliconia, and the orchid family. These flowers each make a statement and typically are set into low flat container with the floral foam covered and each bloom set majestically to be seen by all. If this is something you are interested in you should look at various arrangements to get ideas on how they are arranged since it is typically different than the average arrangement.

Some of the flower families lend themselves to certain work, such as tall vase arrangements as well as wedding and funeral pieces because they are tall and show better. While color may dictate which ones are used where, the larkspur, gladiolus, delphinium, bells of Ireland and snapdragons are all good for this purpose. The green bells can fit in anywhere, whereas the delphinium is a deep blue and may not fit in your color scheme of the design you are working on. Glads and snaps frame your piece well and come in a variety of colors that can be used.

When you get to a point in your design that you have left over space and do not know what to do with it, that is where the fillers come in. They literally fill in the holes which is where they get the name from. Popular fillers include Queen Anns Lace or gyp, which can both be found in white. Solidago is yellow, waxflower and statice both come in lavender. The colors of these may dictate which one you would want to use in a design.

Greens can be used to cover the mechanics of your work as well as to frame your arrangement. A great green for framing large pieces such as funeral work is the palm frond. It can be trimmed down with scissors to have a pointed end or a specific shape. Other greens to be used in design work would be tree fern, myrtle, pittosporum, leather fern or eucalyptus. Using fresh cuts gives you many options that are only hindered by your imagination. Add that to a container filled with water and a sharp knife and you are all set.