American Style Flower Arranging (part 3)

Gingers on the flower arrangements? Oh, ooo no way ... how come? Here is it, a flower arrangement which uses gingers as accessories. And actually, it's a medium-height of flower arrangement.

The image is the view from above.

The material used are carnation, anthurium, bromelia, omprina, celosia or cock-comb while the foliage is silver grass or simelaria, curly futoy stems, anthurium leaves, lily paris leaves or lily grass , foxtail, red & green cordyline and ruscus. Gingers and woven rattan balls as accessories, skewers, wire, a kind of soft copper wire, but this time choose the shiny white colour or silver as supporting tool.

Here is the step by step tutorial if you’d like to make it.

1.       Prepare a long container or a rectangular vase, then filled with wet foam.

Take some curly futoy stems, give floral tape at the bottom, then tied with wire. Do not forget to insert 2 pieces of skewer for easily placing.

2.       Take 3 anthurium leaves, then place them by using terracing technique.

Take 2 woven rattan balls, put sisal inside then placed them as focus at the center of the flower arrangement. One at the front and the other one a little bit at the back.

Take 3 lily grass, woven them by using soft silver wire then tied the edges by using bunching technique and then give floral tape. This technique is to shorten the working time. Attach the other edge with skewer and then placed it on the oasis.

1.       Take 6 gingers, choose the smooth-wide ones and then place them in 3 different places (front, back and right side) by using skewers, each contains 2 gingers

Take 4 bromelia flowers, place them on the right and left side just like cresent form.

Take some foxtail leaves to cover the left side area, the more and more toward the center. If not like this, then the terracing technique is failed.

Take green cordyline leaves, again used the terracing technique.

2.       Take red cordyline leaves, used basing and terracing technique

Take 2 alokasia triangularis leaves or ‘tombak irian’, placed them high and in front of the green cordyline.

Put the simelaria and carnations in different groups, under the alokasia leaves

Place the red celosia between the ginger and curly futoy stems.

Add omprina to add depth so as not to be flat.

Take 2 green anthurium flowers, wired and then placed beside the front gingers.

Finally insert ruscus into the empty place so that the wet foam can be seen. Cut them short.

Done.

Up close look from the front side (image above) and from the back side (image below).

Note:

Pictures taken at the workshop by Andy Djati Utomo S.Sn, AIFD, CFD, on May 16^th, 2012 in Bandung, West Java.