🌸 I Planned Vertical… But It Became a Stunning Triangle! ¦ Modern Flower Arrangement Tutorial

Felly, welcome back to another tutorial today. I'm going to be looking at arranging some beautiful gladioli and some lilies. Now the lilies are open and the reason that I'm using They're opening today so that you can see what the design looks like when it's finished. rather than imagining what it will look like when the flowers are fully open. Now I'm going to start with some gladioli bought from the supermarket. Now is the season for gladioli. So they should be available at the supermarket, and I'm going to arrange them almost like two columns. And I'm starting on the left side with three gladioli, nice and straight and tall. leaving enough space between them so that when they open, you can truly appreciate each one individually flowers and the colors. I'm just going to lower this so you can see the full height of the design, and if you look from the side, you'll see that I've stepped the flowers so that it gives enough space between them so those flowers can open without being squashed or damaged. You'll be able to see that I've started on the left-hand side of the floral foam. If I drew a line down the in the middle you can almost see them starting to shift to one side, so really what I'm going to do is group the different flower materials together. So it's a little bit more of a modern way of arranging. and if we look at the floral foam, you can see that I'm above the edge of the container so that If I decide to bring anything out to the side, there's enough room there for me to put something in. small flowers or perhaps some greenery. So a nice simple column structure there with the gladioli Sitting in the back half of my floral foam, which will leave enough room to place a flower. there in the front and on the opposite side I'm going to add in the lilies. Now they are Really open, there aren't many beds I could use to create some height, but what I could use a piece like that, one that just removes the more open head, which can be used further down. in the floral arrangement, and I can use the bed to establish the height on the opposite side. So ideally, in a floral design, we want the smaller flowers at the top and on the edges more open flowers towards the middle, but I'm a bit restricted today because my flowers are fairly open, and what I really want to achieve here is to have the lilies all grouped together on one side to create that real visual impact, I can reuse this one because the stem is long enough and what I've already done off camera is I've removed all of the pollen from the lilies, so I'm be at risk of damaging my clothes or soft furnishings, linens, and things of that nature, and I'm I'm just going to use my final two lilies; one of them I'm going to remove from the main stem, but these are going to come more down towards the front but leaving enough space at the bottom for me to fit a bit of greenery, and what I've done is create that real visual impact over there on the right-hand side side of the arrangement that will balance beautifully with the gladioli as they begin to Open. Now, the right side of the arrangement, as you're looking at it, is visually a bit heavier. what I'm going to do at the back, just behind those gladioli, is introduce some palms. This is going to help create some depth and give the arrangement that three-dimensional effect that you'll hear me talk about in all of the videos I make, and I don't want to create a triangle so the effect is, I'm not going to extend any material out too far on the sides; I'm going to keep it tight quite compact and upright, so that the style is more of a vertical arrangement than something like a triangle. My next flower is going to be a lovely garden flower. This is a beautiful white hydrangea. and that's going to tuck down really low there; it's going to help cover the foam—it's going to add some depth, and it's going to be sitting very close to the floral foam. Now the hydrangea has worked in two different ways—it's covered my floral foam in one easy placement, and it's also Given the arrangement, this is the method we normally use with foliage to cover it. our foam, and then what I'm going to do on top is to extend the height slightly by placing two of the lovely arum lilies through the center of that hydrangea head just to give a little bit of added height and a contrast in shape and texture, and these two arum lilies really suit this style And I did say that I wasn't going to extend the height too far because I didn't want that. triangular shape, but what I'm going to do now is introduce a large fatsia underneath to really finish off the design and create a little bit of drama on that side, and then on the On the opposite side, I'm going to introduce some of the asperdistra leaf, but I'm going to leave these. fairly long, just so that we're creating a design that's more asymmetric than symmetric, I don't want to put the two Asperdistras in so that they're exactly the same length, so this one I'm going to Just trim a bit from the base of the leaf, and it will be shorter. leaf to work with, just tuck it in on that one side—there, the two of them will sit nicely on top of it. one another, and in that front section, right in between, I'm going to place some of the small pieces of the asparagus fern—now this is commonly known as Ming fern—and if you haven't already seen In the previous video, I mentioned that this was a foliage that was really popular maybe 10 years ago. and we don't generally see it used very much these days, but I've got some in the studio this week and it's a really great contrast between that very flat, heavy leaf and the remaining piece The asparagus fern is missing the greenery on the bottom, but I can still use the top section. just up here at the back, it's a nice contrast in texture alongside that palm, and it brings a little a touch of softness right at the top, which contrasts really nicely against the lilies, and then my final placement is going to be these lovely cetario grasses, now these have been in the studio for About two weeks, and they've dried naturally. It's really warm here in the UK at the moment. which is quite unusual for the UK, they've dried really nicely, which means I'm going to be able to use them for a long time yet, and I'm going to place three little heads just nodding there over the front of the container, which really helps to soften the front and define the outline there at the front, and now I feel that this area here needs something interesting—really just to define it outline and give me something to fade off to the side instead of concluding with those really big lilies, and I'm going to use the flower seed head—this is the allium seed head—so we've just got This really interesting dried format on top, and when you open it up, you've got this almost like a bulb-shaped head on top, and I'm thinking of really making use of the twists and turns on the outside of the arrangement to add a touch of interest and to emphasize that a really modern look that I'm trying to create, so that's one of the little alliums there now, if you grow onions in the garden, you might be more familiar with this little seed head because This is what will happen to your onions if you leave them to go to seed. This one's a little bit More stubborn, but we'll take our time to get it open—they don't have the nicest smell to them. because they are from the onion family but they have such an unusual shape to work with, and that's really just going to bring in a little bit of exciting movement on the opposite side, I'm going to use three and I think then the design is completely finished now over the last couple In weeks, you will have seen more than one arrangement used with the same type of flower. I like to make an arrangement, then take it apart and recreate something else with it because you get to see how versatile flowers can be, so you might have already seen these flowers before but I've arranged them in very different ways, and unintentionally, I've probably formed a bit more of a modern triangle, if we look at the outline, it's definitely a triangular shape because I'm I'm not too keen on it having such a formal triangular shape; what I'm going to do is I'm going to add in These papyrus grasses—so this is a marginal plant that grows in a pond, or it will grow in a bucket. and I'm going to use these just to make the left side of the arrangement a bit longer so that we're creating an asymmetrical design rather than something that's very formal and too much like that traditional triangle, so I think I'm more satisfied with how that has turned out out I'm just going to fill the back in with some short pieces of the asparagus fern just to make it look fuller Sure, all that floral foam is covered, especially in this really warm weather we're having at the moment, it's It's really important that the back of that floral foam is completely covered if it's not covered. It will dry out very quickly, and then your flowers won't have any water, and they will die. prematurely, so thank you as ever for watching. I hope you've enjoyed this floral design. If you If you're enjoying the channel, please subscribe because it really helps it grow. Helps other people find us—comment below whether you love it or hate it, and stay to the end because you will see close-ups of the individual flowers and the finished design And I look forward to seeing you in the next video very soon.