Pumpkin Floral Arrangement

Hi everyone, my name is Eddie Zaratsan. I'm an event and floral designer. In this episode, I'm going to show you how to make a pumpkin arrangement. Let's go back into my workshop area and I'm going to show you how this is done. I'm going to show you the three type of flowers that I'm going to use in here. One is the Gerber daisies, and I have them in different shades of oranges. I've got these beautiful greenery orange berries that we're using, and I'm using beautiful coral garden roses. We start off with a pumpkin that's full. I happen to already carve this one out. There's no seeds in it, so I cut it out, carved it, cleaned it out, and now I'm going to take a cellophane to line this because you don't want moisture because what's going to happen with the pumpkin, I don't want the water to destroy the pumpkin itself. This, I'm going to cut this in half. I'm going to tuck a little bit on this side, a little bit on this side. Now I'm going to cut off my cellophane like so, and then I'm going to start with my berries first, then I'm going to insert my Gerber daisies, and then finally I'm going to finish it off with the roses. Now that I've got this all foamed, I'm going to start with the berries and greens. Cut it at a 45 degree angle. Obviously, we know that the foam was pre-soaked. Start with the greens and the berries like so. I love these because they give a movement, they get a fun shape. It doesn't look so stiff and, you know, artificial, natural movements. Look at that. It's gorgeous. I mean, you can just do this with berries and then you're done, right? So now I'm going to take my Gerber daisies, and Gerber daisies love a lot of water, so you have to give it a lot of attention. Every single day you've got to make sure that foam is filled with water, otherwise they're going to look sad and unhappy. See, once I get all the Gerber daisies, and I'm probably going to use about, I would say, 10 to 14 stems. And once I get that in there, I'm going to finish off with my roses. And then we've got this beautiful pumpkin arrangement that can be used for Halloween, for dinner parties, for fall, for Thanksgiving. Great as a hostess gift as well. Then you can kind of show off your talents to people and say, look at this gorgeous arrangement I did in a pumpkin. Adding that coral orangey color on these garden roses gives it another depth into this arrangement. So gorgeous. So now all you have to do is you can even wedge this in here like so, with a hyacinth stick. And look how gorgeous this pumpkin arrangement is. For more information on my video tutorials, go to my YouTube channel, Eddie Zaratsian, and I will see you next time.