Tools required: floral scissors or garden shears, jute twine or binding wire, aluminium foil, cellophane, cotton, wrapping paper
1. Arranging flower:
- Take a large bloom (or a group of same flowers) as your center flower.
- Start adding in different flowers following spiral method.
- turn the bunch slightly in the same direction everytime you add a flower or foliage to create a neat spiral of stems for easy adjustment of the arrangement.
- If you are using flowers with different colours, make sure they are distributed evenly.
- the colour distribution would look overwhelmed at one side if there are too much dark-coloured flowers on the left and light-coloured flowers on the right.
- Tie the bouquet up with jute twine or binding wire.
- Adjust the arrangement again before tying a dead knot.
- Make sure to move up flowers that sink in and adjust foliage position.
- Cut stems diagonally to desired length at similar level for water absorption.
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| Arranging flowers |
2. Wrapping up with cotton:
- Place the bouquet on top of a sheet of aluminum foil.
- Cover the stems with dry cotton (do not wet the cotton before wrapping stems as it would be difficult to adjust wet cotton).
- Make sure the bottom part of cotton is thicker for better water absorption.
- Fold the aluminum foil up and wrap together.
- Put into plastic bag or wrap with cellophane and seal with jute twine or binding wire.
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| Wrapping with cotton |
