Spring has Sprung
Floral Design Institute is located in the often-dreary Pacific Northwest, so when Spring flowers star showing up at our local market, we are so excited to fill our vases with bright and cheerful beauty! In this Flower School How-To Video Leanne works with a stunning selection of anemones, ranunculus, pieris japonica, and orlaya, accented with blooming jasmine vine and delicate sprengerii fern. Foam-free and fabulous, this compote design is full of the season's best blooms. Enjoy!
Video Transcription
In the Pacific Northwest we have so many gray, cold days that when spring comes, we embrace the flowers. And look at this - foam-free, fabulous seasonal blooms. Let me show you how it's done.
With a compote, they're fabulous, but putting in floral netting, you don't want to see that. So just taking a moment, using an Aspidistra leaf, cutting it down, removing the back bone so that you can bend it easily. Then setting it in. It may take one, two, or three, depending on your size, and then once that's in place, going back and adding the wire, tucking it down in, making sure it's secure, and then using waterproof tape to hold it in place.
As you flower, you want to make sure to fill the vessel with flower food water. Have that pre-mixed, makes the flowers last so much longer. Then coming in, maybe a bit of foliage. Sprengeri is fabulous. One piece can tuck in, get down in, and then wind it and bring it back around so it actually covers your full mechanics. Tucking it, holding it. Then to hold it in place, adding additional maybe pieris, breaking it down, giving it a cut, setting it in and then a bit of jasmine vine to give a little more legginess, softness, tucking it and letting it trail outward, and then repeat.
Once you have a nest, it will support everything else. Then you can tuck in beautiful spring blossoms, maybe anemones, letting them stand upright. Beautiful ranunculus, letting them come out, finding a perfect spot. And even Orlaya. That beautiful? Giving it a softness and letting them come outward over the top of your nest.
As you finish, think in layers. You had your base and then you extended and then combine the two. Adding one more bloom that comes a little bit lower, tucked below the others, guides the eye down. Connecting, repeat that with a ranunculus, giving another connector to tie it all together.
The recipe. I started with the Aspidistra Leaves to conceal my mechanics. Then I filled in, building a nest. Used both the Pieris and the Jasmine Vine. You can see how it trails out, adding that base layer. Then moving in with the flowers. Five of the Ranunculus, five of the Anemone, and five of the Orlaya, letting them come out over the top.
Spring blooms bring such happiness, so many different things, so many different colors. You'll find more inspiration on the website flowerschool.com. If you have questions, you can reach us through there. But now it's your turn. Find your favorite vessel. Create a design. Be sure to take a picture and post it on social media and #FloralDesignInstitute. That way we all can see what you do as you do something you love.
