Making compositions and bouquets of flowers. Rules of drawing up a bouquet.
The flowers are pre-cut with a sharp knife, or at dawn until the dew, or in the late evening, when the heat was asleep. In woody flowers, such as lilac, the cut is split, all the flowers are removed by the lower leaves. And the roses are also removed thorns.
Flowers before drawing a bouquet are lowered into a large container with water, immersing to the base of the flowers, put in a cool place for a couple of hours.
When the flowers are ready to compose a bouquet, their ends are again pruned with a sharp knife (update). In such flowers, carnation, cyclamen, chrysanthemum on the lower part of the stem is cut to a depth of 3 cm.
Dahlias, paasense, poppies, hydrangeas, peonies and other types of plants containing milky juice - the ends are burned with fire, or dipped in boiling water, and then immediately into cold water. In lilies and some other species, anthers are removed. To ensure that they last longer in the bouquet.
When all the initial preparations are finished, you can proceed to the very bouquet. To do this, you need to sort flowers by size. Then an odd number of colors of different lengths are selected. The length of the shortest flower is ¾ the length of the middle, the length of the middle - ¾ of the longest. You can also use flowers at different stages of bud opening, from an unrevealed bud, to an already opened one.
Flowers in the vase are not thick, the angle is kept different and in different directions, adhering to the natural. In the lower part of the vase is closer to the center, it is necessary to place dark and large flowers. On the edges are small flowers of light tones.
For a small vase small flowers are suitable, they are closer to each other, just do not fill all the empty places in the vase, the lumen should remain.
Determination of the size and shape of the bouquet.
In order to determine what bouquet you want to make, first think about why you are doing it. To decorate the dinner table, a small bouquet, in a small vase, is suitable. They should be a round bouquet in a low vase. The same bouquets are suitable for decorating a ceremonial meeting table, a few vases with flowers are placed around the edges so that they do not interfere with those present.
For beauty and aesthetic perception in the house put an ample bouquet, with drooping stems and heads of flowers rush down.
To decorate an apartment it is very fashionable to purchase outdoor vases. But no matter how beautiful the vase is, without flowers it fades. For this vase tall flowers on a high stem with large buds are suitable. You can vary the bouquet along the edges with hanging flowers. Flowers should be 2 times higher than the vase. Thanks to this bouquet, the ceiling will seem higher.
If you have a desire to diversify your home, it is better to still make bouquets in low vases, they give the opportunity to fantasize. In them it is possible to make different compositions from colors of the most various form. If there are a lot of colors, then do not count their number, and with a small number - the number should be odd.
For field and meadow flowers, vases of clay are perfect. For gladioli, large-chrysanthemum - large ceramic vases. A glass vase made in elegant form. Quite suitable for the same refined studs. Flowers with mild stems are usually placed in low, sometimes even flat vases.
For bouquets preference is given to ceramic vases, they do not let light pass and bouquets stay in them longer.
A combination of colors of flowers.
For the correct and original composition of the composition of flowers, you must competently pick up the color gamut.
All existing paints in the nature are formed by mixing basic colors: red, yellow and blue. Contrast combinations are colors: red - green; yellow - purple; blue - orange. That's the rule and you need to distribute flowers in the colors in the composition.
You can put flowers between them with a white color, they are combined with all colors and help to improve the perception of your idea.
Monochrome or monochromatic combinations are made up of shades of the same color, only with different color intensities, such as pale yellow, yellow and bright yellow, or orange.
Ways of fixing flowers in a vase
On a low vase, put a moistened moss cushion of sfangum, fastened with wire, then for more rigid fixation attach the same wire to the bottom of the vase. The stems of the flowers are inserted into the already prepared holes.
The most time-consuming method of fixing, this is pinning. Take a solution of sand and cement is placed on the bottom of a low vase, in this solution, insert the nails with the point up. After the solution has hardened, place flowers on the nails.
The next type is wooden spacers, they are inserted into the top of the vase and serve for the same purpose as the previous ones.
All attachments are masked with grass, or with moss.
Ways to prolong the life of cut flowers.
To keep the flowers fresh for longer, they should be cut off as soon as they start to bloom. They are stored at low temperature and high humidity better. For long-term storage of flowers, they are placed in the cold, wrapping them in paper and film for short-term incubation - put in a container with water in the cold, then cover it with a film.
For flowers, rain or snow is more suitable. In winter, it should be at room temperature, and in the summer - cool. Orchids, daffodils, hyacinths are best preserved in warm water.
Water in flowers should change regularly, when you change the water in the flowers, cut the tips of the stem with a sharp knife. In lilac and chrysanthemums, the stems are not cut off, they only break off and split the tips. Asters and dahlias love an evening shower, so that they can change the water and steal the stalks under the water. Spray your flowers regularly, only carnations do not like this shower.
To prolong the life of your "pets" you must apply nutrient solutions. 2-5% sugar solution with bactericidal and acidifying substances. Remember, sugar can not take cyclamens, lilies of the valley, amaryllis, clematis.
Some flowers can also be capricious if they do not like their neighbor in the composition. Rose and cloves do not like each other very much, so do not put them in one vase. Lilies of the valley, daffodils, reseda, carnations, sweet peas and tubular lilies do not get along with other flowers, they should be placed in separate vases.
For better preservation of the bouquet, you can add various auxiliary branches. For example, a branch of thuja or geranium helps to preserve many bouquets and compositions longer. You can attach a cypress branch to tulips. Lilies of the valley will please you longer, if you put the stalk of the jellyfish to them. The rose becomes fragrant from onions.