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How Do I Make My Dozen Roses Look Right?
By Willie Jones, Tue Jan 10th
When I first started to design flowers I often heard howdesigners had difficulty making a dozen roses look nice. That itwas hard to keep the roses in place. But it is really very easyto do if you know a few simple basics. 1) First prepare the rose by taking off the bottom half of theleaves and popping off the thorns. Most people prefer the thornsoff but as much as possible I leave the thorns on. This isbecause taking them off can leave open wounds and may allowmicrobial bacteria to enter and shorten the life of the flower. 2) Cut the rose stem slantwise under water (so they don't get anair pocket that prevents them from drinking) and place in smallbucket or vase that has warm water and flower food.
3) Make sure you have the right size vase. Too small and you'llhave them all standing up straight and it will look funny. Toobig and you'll have way too much space to fill in. This maysound common sense but believe me; all beginning designers havemade this mistake. There are two ways that I have found to be the best: a) Fill a vase with water of the way full. b) Take your greens (usually leather leaf) and start puttingthem in the vase starting from the outside all around and movinginward. The greens should be crisscrossing themselves. Thisgives a good stiff base for the roses to be able to standwithout flopping. Or: a) Take a dry vase and clear floral tape. You can get this at acraft
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store and it is very sticky and water proof. b) Use this tape at the top of the vase by making a grid. Youshould leave enough room to allow the stem and greens to passthrough. c) Fill the vase with water and flower food and start puttingyour greens in, same as before, start inserting from outsidetowards the inside stems crossing each other. The advantage tousing the grid is you can use fewer greens. d) Now you are ready to place the roses in. In most floral designing you design from the outside inward. Butfor roses I prefer the opposite. I start with what I call theanchor rose. I take my longest stem and stick it right in themiddle. If you have done your greening correctly, is shouldstand straight up. Place the next 4 roses in around the firstrose but slightly shorter. Continue in this fashion until allroses have been placed. Now stand back and look at it to see ifyou need to make any adjustments. Then place in the filler ofyour choice such as baby's breath. Finish with a bow and enjoyyour creation. There are many ways to place the roses but remember, keep itsimple. Don't make it complicated. There is a beautifulmotivational print called Beauty-White Magnolia that says,"Appreciate Simplicity". That's my motto. Enjoy! About the author:Willie Jones is a freelance writer, researcher, floral designer,and artist, for Art Inspires, Inc. Make sure you enroll in thefree motivational poster drawing at http://www.artinspires.com
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