In ancient times, plants and flowers were endowed with magical, supernatural powers that influenced the fate of people. Beautiful bouquets were used to decorate the dwellings of ordinary villagers and palaces of rich people.
Floristics is an art
Drawing up bouquets (floristry) is an amazingly fascinating activity. It will appeal to subtle natures, with an exquisite taste and appreciating the beautiful. Pursuing this business, you will not have to be bored or sad. Learning to make flower bouquets is easy if you have an artistic taste. For work, live and artificial plants are used (flowers, branches, leaves, fruits, etc.).
Anyone can learn to beautifully and correctly make bouquets. This opinion is very common. In fact, success in creating unique compositions for 30% consists of knowledge of the technology of working with plants and 70% of artistic talent, love of wildlife and a great desire to improve their skills every day. Based on this, we can safely say that the preparation of bouquets, floristry is an art in which each work created is a canvas of flowers, leaves and branches.
Floristics - the world of your fantasies
Like any art, arranging bouquets (floristry) does not have strict restrictions on the imagination of the artist. Flower arrangements can be very diverse, and floristic styles are just options that are the basis for your creativity.
Drawing up bouquets (floristry) from fresh flowers
The art of floristry involves creating compositions from living plants or dried plants (ikebana). But more often a similar style is used for long-term room decoration. Bouquets of fresh flowers are more popular.
In the composition, it is important to learn how to correctly combine different varieties of plants. For example, a field chamomile will not organically look with an orchid. When composing a bouquet, one simple technique of experienced florists can be applied - to use plants that are currently in different stages: buds, partially or fully opened flowers. Such a bouquet will please for a long time with gradually opening buds. Completed composition makes decorative greenery.
The meaning of the flowers in a bouquet
If you want to make a gift bouquet, then you should know about the meanings of some colors. For example, calla symbolizes balance and beauty, lotus - happiness and good health, peony - wealth and glory, gladiolus - constancy. The color of the flower also matters. A bouquet in dark pink colors means gratitude, white - innocence and purity, purple - friendship. When composing the composition, pay attention to the foliage. It should not have brown spots.
Bouquets for special occasions
There are many situations in our life when you cannot do without beautiful bouquets. Personal celebrations, weddings, birthdays and anniversaries are those cases when a floral arrangement will bring harmony and a certain charm to the interior of the room where the celebration takes place. If we are talking about bouquets for decoration, then you need to choose the right size. The composition should fit into the interior and not disturb guests.
Floristry: composing bouquets for beginners
To learn the art of floristry, you need to know its basic principles, styles, study the methods of preparing the material, and master the professional tools of the florist. Everything else depends on the beginner’s imagination and sense of style. You must always be aware of floral fashion, that is, to know which flowers are most popular today.
Florist Tools
In order to make the perfect bouquet, you will need:
- secateurs flower;
- knife;
- gardening scissors.
You need a pruner to cut flowers with a dense stem, a knife is used to remove leaves, and gardening scissors can trim almost all plants. To fix plants in compositions, floristic foam, or an oasis, as professionals call it, is used. When working with artificial colors, you can use ordinary polyurethane foam.
Used vessels for bouquets and accessories
An amazing and refined hobby for people of different ages, men and women - floristry. Composing bouquets, photos of which you see in our article, it is impossible to imagine without the use of special accessories and vessels. It can be vases from various materials: crystal, metal, glass, plastic, wood. As accessories, you can use ribbons, bells, candles (they are most often used in Christmas compositions), beads, stones, etc.
Drawing up bouquets (floristry) is an ancient and forever young art. Currently, this is one of the leading areas of aesthetics.