How to make a horizontal floral design - Floristry⁄flower arranging

Welcome back to another video. Now over the last couple of weeks we've been looking at back to basics of floral design, where we're revisiting all those basic fundamental rules of flower arranging And I thought it would be nice this afternoon for us to see something a little bit different. and use some seasonal flowers that are currently available at various supermarkets barrel shops. Now I have quite a plain glass vase, and often when you're working with glass it's It's quite hard to hide your mechanics, your tape, and all that stuff. So a good solution for that is to use one of these very heavy lead-based pin holders, but instead of using it as a mechanic To hold your flowers, I'm using it as a base; I suppose "holder" is the word for my floral arrangement. foam. So what I'm going to do is just insert that there into the prongs and because I'm Going to go size ways with the design, hopefully fingers crossed the balance of the foam being Being securely held by the pin holder at the bottom will allow me to make many sideways movements. rather than vertical placements. So fingers crossed that it works quite well there in the middle. Right now, supermarkets are full of gladiolas, a very seasonal flower. You might Have them in the garden; they are quite easy to grow from corn. And if not, if you don't have them in the garden, then you can pop out to your local florist shop or to the supermarket and you I can buy some lovely flowers to use, and I've ended up with a very vertical line with a cluster Combine the gladiolas together to give it a slightly more contemporary design style. In traditional floral arranging, you would probably echo that placement on the opposite side. And then in the studio, I have these gorgeous peacock feathers. which have that lovely arching shape and I thought they would complement the style of the arrangement and the shape of the arrangement by itself quite attractively draped over to one side, giving me a lovely little bit of softness movement in the arrangement and continues your eye outward without the materials being too heavy and too dominant, and then I have a few little roses, and this one is called a rose lily Now it's not generally seen to a great extent in the supermarket, and it's a double-headed one. Lily and it has no pollen, so if you suffer from hay fever or you don't like pollen marking your curtains and your tablecloth and whatever else you have, then this gorgeous rose lily is one you'd have at home. Fantastic long-lasting flowers, and I have some gorgeous bonsai trees. This one is Ozone Foulness, and it's almost like rosemary in its texture. And what I'm going to do with this one is bring it out here on the opposite side. of the main cluster of radiolarias, a really lovely textural foliage Now I'm not quite sure whether this is available for cultivation in the UK; this one comes in from Ireland. comes in from part of the forest stock It's a fantastic company in Ireland called the Irish Green Guys, and they grow it and have it. for use by UK florists. Gorgeous textural foliage, and when Christmas comes and I start doing all the Christmas wreath-making workshops, and I start making Christmas wreaths—this is a foliage that I use a lot to bring in that lovely grey color. It works really well with the focal section off to one side, which will balance off that long placement with the Radioli and the feathers—and I just brought a little bit of that color combination to the center as well and a little bit of contrast, the same sort of color tone but much different Shape in the leaf. There's another foliage from the Irish Green Guys; this one is Eucalyptus. huge big stem, and look how that angles over— isn't that great? Now I don't need it in such Big pieces, so we'll place them back in again in a clustered form, open them together. and we'll bring it through to the opposite side as well. Now it's always important to bring some add weight to the back of the arrangement, otherwise it will fall over and tip forward And it's also important to carry a line of color through to the back as well. So we've got those nice big clusters. Move the plant material upward so you can see it more clearly. How's that going now? You could, of course, just continue with a large cluster of the gladiolites. That would give you a really interesting design, but I'm lucky in that I have this lovely rose lily. I'm hoping that I'm going to get that into this focal point. Here at the front, it's a fantastic color match with my gladiolite. and I've placed them on two different levels It has a slight Art Nouveau vibe, I think—probably the peacock feathers. and possibly the color combination, but they work really well together And now, ideally, I would have liked to have had some more of this line of roses, but I only have two. left here in the studio, so they are going to act as a sort of color link between where my stopped and where those lilies begin I'm almost synchronized with my jumper as well, of course that was planned. Just space them out a bit so they're not too clustered together, not too close. so you can see each flower in its own right I've got quite a bit of foam showing here, which we'll cover in just a second. And of course, this is another type of eucalyptus, and I'm not quite sure. How much of that can you see? But this is the diet eucalyptus; we get this a lot in the autumn. and it has almost a sort of pinkish vein running through the leaf We just added that back in to create a little bit of movement toward the front. and to make your eye travel forward And while you're looking at that front section, I'll add a little bit of foliage. Now I don't have a large amount of lily in the shop, so that's why we're going to use one. Stem, if we had more available, we could bring that all the way to the back, but I was thinking that this is going to sit on the sideboard, so you're not really going to see the back of it arrangement, as long as the floral foam is completely covered, it's not really the end of the world if We don't have any flowers back there; we still have some actual weight, so the Design isn't going to fall apart, and I've already started on the Christmas collection. that we've been designing this week, I have some of this lovely silver birch, and that is again going to help bring in another texture, another contrasting plant material, and it's a really A good example of lines—so we talk about lines a lot in floral arrangement and forestry, and that is a good example, and then I'm going to do the same and bring some back to the green foliage that we have on this side a little bit of a sparkling color A little bit long Oh, I'd love that on my sideboard, so we've got quite a big gap here, at least for the of the heavier visual of What do we think of that then? So, a horizontal design this time, a little bit more contemporary. a little bit more advanced skills and techniques, and a nice quick one to be able to do Thank you everyone, and see you all again very soon. Bye for now.