Flowers for Any Occasion
Looking for the perfect flowers for a specific occasion? You'll find them here.
Gifts
Check out this huge listing of gift related websites. In the Garden
Find links to gardening tips, the best products, wholesalers, and more!
Miscellaneous
If it's not about flowers, it's probably here.
Sights and Societies
From the most beautiful botanical gardens in the world to the most prestigious horticultural societies, plus a little more in between. |
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Starting at the rim of your vase and working toward the center, add other flowers, spacing them as if they were points on
Directory of Flower Websites
Floral Art
Photography, paintings, dried flowers and ikebana. |
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Starting from the middle of the foam, and working outward in a circular fashion, create a "green foundation" by inserting foliage. The longest stems go in first. Next, repeat this process with your line and mass flowers, inserting the tallest flowers first and working outward to a fan shape. |
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flowers by mail |
When you have a handful of flowers, bind with twine or ribbon at the point where your hand is holding the bouquet.
Flower Delivery
Sometimes they are referred to as "face" flowers. |
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Tip: Make sure your vase is leak proof, and has a neck and water reservoir large enough for your flowers to fit comfortably. For some flower arrangements you may also want to use a brick of floral foam?a substance that, when saturated, holds flowers in place. Tip: Be sure to soak your foam in water containing a floral food solution.Let foam absorb water at its own rate. |
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Tip: Build a grid across the top of your vase with clear tape.
Cut it to fit the shape of your container, leaving enough space for reserve water. Floral foam cuts easier when wet. If your flowers sometimes don't stand up straight ... Tip: It could be your vase is too short for your flowers, or your flowers are too tall for your vase! A good rule of thumb: the height of your vase should be about half to one-third as tall as your flowers. |
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Floral foam cuts easier when wet. If your flowers sometimes don't stand up straight ... Tip: It could be your vase is too short for your flowers, or your flowers are too tall for your vase! A good rule of thumb: the height of your vase should be about half to one-third as tall as your flowers. Tip: Build a grid across the top of your vase with clear tape.
A packet of flower food is enclosed with all flowers and arrangements from Proflowers. |
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