In ancient times, plants and flowers were endowedmagical, supernatural forces that influenced the fate of people. Beautiful bouquets were used to decorate the dwellings of ordinary villagers and palaces of rich people.
Making bouquets (floristry) is amazingfascinating occupation. It will be to the liking of the natures, thin, possessing an exquisite taste and appreciating the beautiful. Being engaged in this business, you will not have to be bored or sad. Learn how to make bouquets of flowers is easy if you have an artistic taste. For work, living and artificial plants (flowers, branches, leaves, fruits, etc.) are used.
Beautifully and correctly to make bouquets canlearn any person. This opinion is very common. In fact, the success in creating unique compositions by 30% consists of knowledge of the technology of working with plants and 70% of artistic talent, love of living nature and a great desire to improve their skills every day. Proceeding from this, it can be safely asserted that the compilation of bouquets, floristry is an art in which every created work represents a leaf of flowers, leaves and branches.
Like any art, drawing up bouquets(floristics) does not have strict limitations for the artist's imagination. Compositions from flowers can be very diverse, and the styles of floristry are just the options that are the basis for your creativity.
The art of floristry means creatingcompositions from living plants or dried (ikebana). But more often this style is used for long-term decoration of premises. More popular bouquets of fresh flowers.
In the composition it is important to learn how to correctly combinedifferent varieties of plants. For example, the field chamomile will not look organically with the orchid. When composing a bouquet, you can apply one simple technique of experienced florists - to use plants that are currently in different stages: buds, partially or fully opened flowers. Such a bouquet will be pleased for a long time gradually blossoming buds. Completed composition makes ornamental foliage.
If you want to make a gift bouquet, then youshould be aware of the meanings of some colors. For example, calla symbolizes poise and beauty, lotus - happiness and good health, peony - wealth and glory, gladiolus - permanence. Matters and shade of the flower. A bouquet in dark pink colors means gratitude, white means innocence and purity, and purple means friendship. Composing composition, pay attention to the foliage. It should not be brown spots.
In our life there are many situations where, withoutbeautiful bouquets can not do. Personal celebrations, weddings, birthdays and anniversaries are those cases when the flower arrangement will bring harmony and a certain charm to the interior of the room where the holiday 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 the guests.
To learn the art of floristics, you needknow its basic principles, styles, study the methods of preparing the material, learn professional tools florist. Everything else depends on the beginner’s imagination and sense of style. You must always be aware of the flower fashion, that is, to know exactly which flowers are the most popular today.
In order to make the perfect bouquet, you will need:
- floral pruner;
- knife;
- gardening scissors.
You need a pruner for cutting flowers witha dense stem, a knife is used to remove leaves, and almost all plants can be trimmed with garden scissors. For fixing plants in the compositions used floristic foam, or an oasis, as it is called by professionals. When working with artificial flowers, you can use regular mounting foam.
Amazing and exquisite hobby for peopleof different ages, men and women - floristics. Composing bouquets, photos of which you see in our article, it is impossible to imagine without the use of special accessories and vessels. These can be vases of various materials: crystal, metal, glass, plastic, wood. As accessories you can use ribbons, bells, candles (they are often used in Christmas compositions), beads, stones, etc.
Drawing up bouquets (floristics) is an ancient and eternally young art. Currently it is one of the leading areas of aesthetics.
