Graduation Flower Arrangements

Horticulture winners will be featured in another article.The overall winner in the Design Division is awarded the Award of Design Excellence. In this article, the Section winners for Division I, Design, will be shown.

So gather the kids round the table, and teach them aboutNote: Suggested filler plants include baby's breath, pansies, violets andI made my tussie-mussie from silk flowers since I needed curtain ties in my bedroom, and Sue Williams mentioned using tussie-mussies...

If you're using florist's foam, let that soak in the food-filled water for a while too.*Intravenous infusions are generally warmed up to body temperature. They rewarded me with over a week of raving red beauty anyway, with absolutely no effort on my part.

Grasses and cuttings from shrubs such as arborvitae or spirea are unexpected and add texture to a flower bouquet.• Choose the freshest-looking bunch you can find, with buds just beginning to open.

This can be remedied by spray painting the dark areas with white spray paint (any kind will work). The most important part of the process is waiting until the blossoms are ready before harvesting them.

The designer discards the notion that fillers and transitional materials must be used and works to achieve structural clarity. The Creative Arrangers group of my garden club meets once a month to study and do a specific design type.

Select your material from large plants. As with the small arrangements above, off-beat containers add interest. You may find blooms that you hadn't noticed before, when you viewed the flowers from indoors or scurried past them in your haste to go somewhere...

Next summer you can stop by my house and I'll send you home with one nice flower in a Brody bud vase. My glassware collection includes a fair amount of vintage Brody glass.Normally I hate shopping for and decorating the home, and am totally baffled by...

It takes little effort and expense to have a fresh, colorful bouquet for your home each week. A mix of various size plants and bloom types are optimal for the cutting garden. Please visit PlantFiles for more information and great member photographs.All...

French flower dictionaries published in the early 1800s included “Sur Le Langage des Fleurs” and “Abecedaire de Flore.” By 1823, the first flower dictionary published in English, “Flora Domestica or The Portable Flower Garden,” by Elizabeth...

However, many home gardeners still plant what is known as a "cutting garden," full of a variety of flowers that are suitable as cut flowers for bouquets. In fact, there is no record anywhere of any correlation between the song and the diseases until the...

Price shown is for one arrangement. Arrangement features one 8” stalk, one 6” stalk, and two 4” stalks. Ceramic vase measures 3”L x 3”W x 3”H. Available in Black only.

To bring out the deep hues and colors of the silk flowers and lucky bamboo stalks, it is paired with black river rocks and a black cylinder vase. The silk blooms are a perfect complement to the dark green spiral stalks.

Box measures 7"W. Give a gift of succulents with our succulent gift box. Succulent gift box arrives in a square shaped box filled with assorted 4" and 2" succulents and Spanish moss.

Arrangement can be designed to your own style. Kit includes one 4" rosette, two 2" rosettes, two 2" grass succulents, deer moss, peat moss, and small 6" oval pot. The succulent arrangement comes with all the necessary components to make your own succulent...

Box measures 7.5"L x 7"W. Give a gift of succulents with our succulent gift box. Succulent gift box arrives in a heart-shaped box filled with assorted 4" and 2" succulents and spanish moss.

Lucky bamboo arrangement features four 12" straight sticks, and two 8" spiral sticks. A taller version of our popular Square Glass Short lucky bamboo arrangement. The height of this vase lets you choose how tall you would like your lucky bamboo arrangement...

This arrangement features three 8" spiral stalks, one 8" straight stalk, and three 6" straight stalks. Arrangement is set in a decorative brown floral shaped pot and filled with polished river rocks

Arrangement can be designed to your own style. Kit includes one 4" Echeveria succulent, five 2" accent succulents, white gravel, lava rocks, succulent soil, and ceramic bowl. The succulent arrangement kit comes with all the necessary components to make...

The succulent sphere kit comes with all the necessary components to make your own succulent garden. Arrangement can be designed to your own style. Create your own hanging succulent garden with our complete succulent sphere kit.

Box measures 7.5"D. Give a gift of succulents with our succulent gift box. Succulent gift box arrives in a round shaped box filled with assorted 2" succulents and spanish moss. Succulents are picked based on their seasonality.

Arrangement can be designed to your own style. Kit includes one 4" rosette, eight 2" rosettes, two 2" grass succulents, deer moss, peat moss, and 8" oval pot. The succulent arrangement kit comes with all the necessary components to make your own succulent...

Nothing should be centered or exactly symmetrical in an Ikebana-inspired arrangement. Use a single sprig of sage to represent that towering bush, and use two poppy blooms--one taller, to show off against the sage, and one very short, to represent an endless...

Arrangement arrives fully assembled and includes one 4" Echeveria, spanish moss, and square vase. Medium Succulent Cube is available in matte black, matte grey, matte white, glossy yellow, and glossy red.

To accentuate the 6" heart shaped lucky bamboo, two 8" spiral lucky bamboo stalks are used as a background for the arrangement along with two 6" stalks. Choose a color that matches your recipient or for a special occasion.

A perfect arrangement for a narrow setting. The outcome mimics a floral garden. This unique arrangement is comprised of three 4” and six 6” live bamboo sticks and several silk flower sprays.

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