FLOWER ARRANGEMENT

• Symbols of flowers

  • Happiness and abudance
  • hospitality
  • positive vibes
• The art of organizing and grouping together plant material to achieve harmony, form, color, texture to add cheer and joy
• Benefits of flowers to patients:

  • Emotional health
  • Memory and concentration
  • Faster recovery
  • Immediate mood boost for the patient
  • Plants oxygenate the air, boosting the patient's brain cells
  • Relaxed patients can easily recover
• Relaxation:

  • Floral scents can lower stress
• Care and conditioning of flowers:

  • Plant materials should be cut slant
  • Cut flowers before they reach maturity
  • Use a good knife/scissors
  • In reviving wilting flowers, cut half an inch of stem
  • Remove dead flowers
  • Remove all leaves from stems that have shorter life
• Proportion:

  • The size of each element should have a harmonious appearance
  • Style of the room
  • Size of the room
  • Type of surface
  • Practicality
  • Flower preference: glossy, dull, velvety
• Principles of flower arrangement:

  • Balance
  • Color
  • Emphasis/Dominance
  • Physical balance
  • Visual balance
  • Monochromatic
  • Analogous
  • Contrasting/Complimentary
  • Polychromatic/Rainbow/Scattered
  • Involves creating focal point
• Color schemes
• Divisions of flower arrangement