Choosing Colours For Your Flower Arrangements

Flower Colours

When you are making up your floral designs choose colours that compliment each other.

Pink gerberas and pale alstroemeria, purple mini asters and mauve ageratum as shown in this photo look wonderful together.

Green leaves always provide great contrast

Other colour combinations that go well together are orange, yellow and cream.

Red and white, Apricot and bronze, Peach and lavender.


Vibrant colours such as orange, purple and lime green are great for modern designs.

A floral design using all white flowers can look very elegant.

In the Floristry Course you will learn how to choose colours to give the most impact in your floral designs.

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Flowers And A gift

I like it that you can do so many wonderful things with flowers.

Once you understand the basic design rules of flower arranging you can be so creative.

You can really dress up a gift with flowers.

A bottle of wine is made special by adding a spray of flowers.

This would make an ideal gift to present to a hostess having a dinner party.

The bottle has been placed in a cover.

A small foam igloo has been soaked in water and is secured to the top.

The stems of roses, orchids, fern and ivy have been cut to the desired length and inserted into the foam.

Long curving grass has been inserted in the right side.

An arrangement featuring the same flowers is placed at the base.

This design is described briefly - in the Floristry Course you will learn how to create many types of different floral designs with detailed step-by-step instructions.

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Elegant Floral Design

I hope you are enjoying your week.

This is an elegant floral design with a light airy look.

It is arranged in a tall candle holder.

This design features silk flowers such as freesias, orchids and filling flowers in soft shades of pink and cream.

A piece of foam has ribbon pinned around the edges  and wedged into the top of the holder.

Hot glue helps hold it in position.

The flower stems have been cut to the desired length, wired with florist wire, taped and inserted into the foam.

Long pieces of tassel plant are inserted around the edges to give it a light airy look.

A spray of filling flowers have been glued around the base.

This design is described briefly - in the Floristry  Course you will learn how to create many types of different floral designs with detailed step-by -step instructions.

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Floristry Student's Floral Arrangement

I hope you are enjoying your day.

I thought you might like to show you an arrangement one of our student's Roslyn has created.

It features white lilums and carnations and foliage in an upright container.

This arrangement has a lovely line with a minimum amount of materials.

It is not the amount of flowers that is used but how they are positioned that makes the difference.

You too can soon be creating stylish floral designs the professional way.

In the Floristry Course you will learn how to create many styles of flower arrangements  the easy way.

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Mother's Day Arrangement

What a lovely way to show your mother that you care by giving her a fabulous floral arrangement.

This arrangement features pink roses, mauve alstroemeria, leucadendrons and pale green orchids arranged in a triangular shape.

A round container has been used as a base.

Florist foam has been soaked in water for several minutes and placed in the base.

The top of the foam should stand at least 5cm above the edge of the container so the side stems can be inserted in the foam.

Starting at the top, the two leucadendrons have been cut to the desired length and placed one slightly lower than the other.


Foliage has been placed down the sides to form a triangle shape.

The pink roses have been placed down the centre in a zigzag line.

The orchids have been placed down the sides and one at the base.

Short pieces of foliage have been placed between the flowers to fill in the centre of the arrangement.

Alstroemeria has been placed between the other flowers.

Wide leaves have been folded into loops, wired across the base with 22 gauge florist wire and inserted in the base.

The foam should be topped up with water every couple of days

To all the wonderful mothers - I hope you have a lovely mother's day.

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Modern Red Calla Lily Arrangement

Simplicity in floral designs can often be the most effective.

This modern floral design features red calla lilies.

A glass container is used as a base.

A block of florist foam has been cut a bit smaller than the container, soaked in water for several minutes and then placed in the container.

Stems of equisetum, also known as horsetail have been cut to the desired length to sit level with the top of the container and placed between the foam and the container.

The calla lily stems have been cut to the desired length and inserted to stand upright in the foam.

In the Floristry Course you will learn how to create different floral designs suitable for many occasions.

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Alstroemeria and Happy Plant Flower Arrangement

I hope you had a good Easter break.

We had a great time in Warrnambool which is a city in Victoria known as the shipwreck coast which has a very interesting history.

Alstroemeria are very long lasting flowers.

They can be arranged with other flowers and look wonderful arranged on their own.

This arrangement can be made very quickly.

A tall glass vase has been filled three quarters of the way with water.

The alstroemeria has been placed in the vase having the flower heads about the same height across the top.

The Chinese believe the Happy Plant brings good luck  and several stems have been placed along the centre to give extra height and interest.

In the Floristry Course you will learn how to create many different floral designs.

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