How to Make Floating Flowers
Here are two ways to make floating flowers:
- Use a very small vase, such as a votive candle holder, place the flower in it and float it in a larger container. This approach can be elaborated to use more vases floating within each other.
- Fill the bowl with water and put shells or stones at the bottom of the bowl. Sprinkle the surface with rose petals until they form a layer. Then place the flowers on the rose petals.
January 21, 2007
Unusual Floral Tablepieces
In Centerpieces and Table Decorations 2005 Trends and Traditions by Kentucky University Extension reviews current market trends and Kentucky consumer choices in table decorations and floral design. They refer to an interior design called “tablescapes” — creating table top presentations by combining accessories — not limited to the dining room or dinner table but can include mantels, shelves, dresser tops and foyer, end, and coffee tables.
Examples of display items that can be used with floral arrangements are
- Lamps, Stacked books, Plants,
- Figurines, Toys, Bowl of fruit,
- Pictures, Baskets, Candles,
- Decorative plates, Table runners, Teapots,
- Stacked books, Candle holders, Greenery,
- Decorative boxes, Decorative pillows, Doilies,
- Tassels, Pitchers, or Shells.
The idea is not to use items in isolation, but to combine elements with flowers in unusual but harmonious ways. For examples, birdcages containing plants, a teddy bear riding an car with dasies, a small vase of flowers on stacked books, etc.
The article attributes increased “nesting” behaviour to post-911. Well nests don’t have to be boring. Unusual floral table arrangements are a way of releasing pent-up creativity.
La Madonna Litta
What an amazing painting this is! I am a huge fan of Leonardo da Vinci. Completed around 1490, it is the kind of masterpiece that reaches into you. Perhaps it is the gaze of the child attached, or the strange combination of spirituality and earthiness in it. I won’t go on like an art critic.
But you don’t need to be an art critic to use paintings like this in arrangements. Even though there are no flowers, the colors and composition can be inspiration for flowers. In this case, look for a central red and blue and black at the extremities. Notice also the amber satin sash between the red and the blue. Look also at the unifying diagonal in flesh tones threading up through the picture via the body, breast, neck and head. These sorts of color combination, using Alstromeria and Hypericum berries say, with Roses or Lilies for the red and Iris or Larkspur for the blue, create a dramatic yet pleasing combination.
Getting ideas from great painting helps me to break away from the habitual approaches. An arrangement based on La Madonna Litta is not a subtle feminine bouquet, but a large and dramatic, yet well united piece of work.
December 29, 2006
Corporate Accounts
We pride ourselves on providing innovative, fresh arrangements for corporate clients, at a reasonable cost. Our list of corporate customers is growing. Some of current customers are:
Corporate flowers in the public areas do more than decorate. They communicate your business at a subliminal level, reassure, excite, or entice customers, and create a positive atmosphere for transactions. That is why they need to be of the highest quality and sophistication, and reflect the image your business is trying to project.
December 25, 2006
Home and corporate flower accounts
We have a new offer of a free arrangement with the first month of home flower delivery to the San Francisco city region.
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Imagine coming home every day to a beautiful fragrant arrangement of fresh flowers.
Professional flower arrangements in the home convey peace and sophistication that nothing else can.
After all, why pay $25 for a bouquet you have to transport and struggle to arrange when you can have a perfect arrangement delivered to your home for a little more?
Another thought is to give a gift of a weekly flower account to an older or convalescing loved one.
Prices for a monthly account are
- Standard $35 +tax per week.
- Premium add $10
Ring us at 415 3461001.
December 16, 2006
Christmas Centerpieces
Beautiful Christmas centerpieces grow on trees. But if you have no time to spend on it, there are solutions.
Christmas centerpieces can be put together while you wait using your choice of flowers. So let your imagination flow and let sky be the limit.
- Raise a toast on this year’s Christmas with wine, bottles of champagne, mistletoe and wreathes of ivy or evergreen.
- Bird houses with flowers or Christmas balls act as attractive Christmas Centerpieces.
- Authentic looks to Christmas using antique teapots with flowers, birdcages or pots.
- Arrangements with votive candles in them serve as wonderful glowing Christmas centerpieces.
- Bonsai Trees artificial or real never fail to add that soothing touch to your Christmas Decorations. It’s a hot favorite Christmas Centerpiece this season.
December 11, 2006
Classical Horizonal Flower Arranging
By putting flowers in a vase you achieve a vertical, or possible circular flower arrangement. The next step to try is a horizontal arrangement. These are very useful for tables or hallways and give plenty of scope to achieve unique looks.
Horizontal arrangements require some special floral equipment, foam. “Oasis” is a popular brand as it soaks easily and holds stems well. You also need a base for the arrangement, it needs to be secured in a suitable tray as well.
The trays are relatively shallow container, with anchor pins, or even one piece cages enclosing the foam.
The normal approach is to insert some lateral stems along the axis of the arrangement. Bells of Ireland are ideal, as are leather fern, eucalypts.
You then insert flowers in the middle. They need to hide the sides of the foam and container, so choose ones that gently droop over the lip of the container or something dense like hydrangea.
Insert focal flowers such as roses a different angles.
Insert candles if you wish for a professional touch.
Its really easy and fun and great for any occasion when the family or friends are getting together.
The arrangement shown can be ordered here.
November 19, 2006
Floating Flower Bowls
For a quick and easy way to dress up the Thanksgiving table or create a romantic atmosphere, floating flower bowls are hard to beat. Float some dendrobium orchid blossums on the water of a clear wide vase, and add a floating candle or two for effect.
Candles are romantic. Water is the element of emotion. Fire represents passion. Combine this with the sensuality of orchid flowers and nature’s most basic elements combine for a romantic evening at home.
Candles, blossums and vases are available at the Secret Flower Garden.
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