1. Add Hours to your Flowers
And a little information about floral design, including bud vases
Original Power Point Created by Kara Hutchinson
Modified by Georgia Agricultural Education Curriculum Office
September 2005

2. Add Hours to Your Flowers
Cut stems at an angle
Keep flowers hydrated (in water)
Keep flowers cool
Keep flowers away from fruits and vegetables (they produce gasses that make flowers wilt)
Feed flowers with regular flower food or diluted 7-up or sprite (acid kills bacteria and fungus and sugar provides food)

3. Important Tips for Arrangements
Clean containers with bleach (kills bacteria and fungus)
Add water as your flowers use it
Protect from extreme temperatures
Do not add aspirin to flower water (There are many old wives tales about adding aspirin or pennies to flower water to make the flower last longer, it does not work)
Recut stems as needed (Stems try to heal just like when you get a scab over a cut, by recutting the flower can take up water better)

4. Types of Flowers Primary Secondary/Complementary Act as focal point
More expensive
More colorful
Larger
Secondary/Complementary
Not always used
Can use more than one type
tend to be different shape or color

5. Parts of a flower arrangement
Flowers
Foliage
Makes arrangements look larger, fuller and more expensive
Hides mechanics
Adds contrast to color and texture
Helps to define shape
Examples of common shapes include line and mass arrangements

6. Parts of an Arrangement Con’d
Filler
Really Cheap
Adds size to arrangement
Makes it look more expensive without adding a lot of cost
Fills in holes
Examples Baby’s Breath, Heather, Statice, Caspia

7. Making an Arrangement Mechanics Inorganic part of the arrangement
Helps hold arrangement together
Examples: Bows, wire, foam, container, decorations, card holder
You will be making a bud vase similar to this in class.