Making a bouquet.saving cut flowers
Cut flowers are most often used for bouquets.
Drawing up a beautiful bouquet is a kind of art that requires knowledge of the decorative qualities of flowers, the correct combination of their color and shape.
The art of making a bouquet originates in the countries of the East. So, the Japanese art of making a bouquet, the so-called "ikebana", arose about 400 years ago. A number of his rules are used in flower arrangement. The principle of "ikebana" requires that the bouquet be small - otherwise the beauty of each flower will be lost separately. Three to five flowers and a few twigs, arranged with careless grace, make up a Japanese bouquet.
The nature of the bouquet should necessarily be in harmony with the shape of the vase. Usually they use wide and low vases. In low vases, flowers are punctured on special plates with sharp points so that they retain a vertical position corresponding to their natural appearance. Such tattoos can be made by yourself from cement, gypsum or lead and sharp pins, nails, needles. From the lead or cement make the base of the tattoo, using for this purpose as the shape of a petri dish, matchboxes, jars from gutalin, etc. To the base( insert pins, studs or needles with the points upwards.
In a high or narrow vase, put one or two branches, one of which is sometimes tilted to the side as if it was bent by the wind
In a Japanese bouquet, flowers often combine fruits, tree branches with fruits or beautifulleaves, stones, pieces of daisy. The vase never dominates the bouquet, and forms a single harmonious whole with it
This original art fosters love for nature, develops a sense of subtle taste and grace, helps to understand the beauty of natural forms.has had a positive impact on the compilation of bouquets in Western countries and with us.
The usual mistake in composing a bouquet is that it is trying to collect as much and varied colors as possible, instead ofabout to choose the colors, which are more suited to each other. Flowers should be placed in the bouquet freely and not in one plane, but in such a way that each flower is seen as possible. To do this, cut flowers with peduncles of different lengths.
The best are bouquets made up of one kind of flowers, for example, from roses, gladiolus, asters, etc., with the addition of arranging plants such as gypsophila, fern, asparagus and others.
A beautiful bouquet can be assembled from two kinds of flowers, given the harmony of the combination of their color and shape. For example, blue delphiniums in a bouquet with white pions or lilies will strengthen whiteness and emphasize the shape of the latter. Beautiful combination of creamy garden jasmine and blue delphinium, red oriental poppies and blue-toned irises, red and white peonies, white camomiles and blue cornflowers. A bouquet made up of more than three kinds of flowers already creates an impression of diversity.
A harmonious combination of color colors with each other, as well as with the color and shape of the vase, plays an important role in the composition of the bouquet. Good color combinations: blue and orange, purple and yellow, pink and blue, red, blue and yellow. White flowers, as neutral, can be added to any bouquet.
The vase should be firm and simple in shape, less attractive than the flowers it contains. Therefore, you should avoid brightly colored vases with paintings, pictures, gilding. To emphasize the natural beauty of flowers, vases of transparent, colorless glass are best.
For a high bouquet, for example from gladioli, an elongated vase is better in shape, for a short bouquet it is a low wide vase.
Cut flowers are placed in water. When mass harvesting for sale, they are placed in a cold cellar or cellar. The most reliable way to preserve colors is to keep them at a low temperature.
If you want to keep the cut flowers for a long time, use one of two methods:
Wet - for up to two to three weeks. Plants put in water are placed in a refrigerator or a cold cellar, a glacier, where they store at a temperature of 1-3 °.
Dry - for three to four weeks. Flowers cut in buds or at the very beginning of their blooming,
is placed in cardboard boxes lined inside with a plastic film, but so that air passes( to avoid accumulation of carbon monoxide).In the box, rows of flowers and even individual flowers are shifted by paper. The boxes are placed in a refrigerator at a temperature of about 0 ° C.The flowers, taken out as necessary, are first placed in warm water in a cool room, then brought into the room. The best results for long-term storage are given by pions, which can persist for up to two months. Well tolerated storage is also tulips, gladioli, asters, chrysanthemums, roses.