The Local Flower Collective
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Design Guides

 

You’ll Need:

  • Scissors or gardening shears

  • A clean vase

  • Tape, a floral frog, or a small ball of chicken wire (depending on your vase choice, one of these mechanic options will make most sense)


Where to begin?

  • Build your mechanics: Tape your grid, secure your floral frog, or shape your chicken wire, and tape it into place

  • Prepare your flowers: Remove unwanted foliage (leaves that fall below the water line on the stem, when placed in your vase), remove unwanted buds and/or thorns, separate breaks in your stems

  • Organize your materials: If you are new to designing, organizing your flowers by flower type/shape will help you to build a cohesive design. Separate out and line up your focals, your fillers, your greenery, etc.


 

How to achieve a Garden aesthetic

  • Choose a complementary colour palette

  • Develop your base with foliage, focus on creating a natural shape with lots of texture and movement

  • Add your filler flowers close to the base of your arrangement, with a few stems longer than others to create dimension

  • Add your medium focals in groupings at different heights

  • Add your focals in smaller groupings, focussing on keeping the largest blooms closer to the base of the arrangement

  • Add your dancing flowers, keeping the stems as long as possible to add an airy feeling to the arrangement

    Bud vases should have 3 - 5 stems with textured foliage and smaller blooms. Aim to keep your bud vases feeling airy and light, in an effort to compliment your centrepieces.

 

How to achieve a modern aesthetic

  • Choose a bold palette, with little to no greenery

  • Keep your floral varieties as minimal as possible

  • Choose your florals wisely by selecting only a few different sizes of blooms: medium focals, focals, dancing flowers

  • Group your flowers close together and build shapes by layering blooms

  • Add dimension by adding flowers of different sizes

  • Add your dancing flowers and keep the stems long to allow for visual space within your arrangement

Bud vases should include 1-2 focal or medium focal flowers, of the same variety that were included in your centrepieces.