Tools | Processing Flowers | Color Schemes | History of Floral Design | Homecoming Mums |
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cutting live plant stems
What are bunch cutters used for?
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45 degree
At what angle do you cut flower stems?
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an arrangement or pattern of colors or colored objects conceived of as forming an integrated whole
What is a color scheme?
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Ikebana
Name a type of Japanese floral arranging.
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chrysanthemum
What does "mum" stand for?
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It damages the scissors or bunch cutters.
Why don't you use scissors or bunch cutters to cut wire?
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Instead of the refrigerator fan sucking the humidity out of the cooler, it blows humidity into the cooler.
How is a floral cooler different from a regular cooler (refridgerator)? (As it pertains to lengthening the life of flowers)
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two colors opposite each other on the color wheel
What are complimentary colors?
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The English
Who used nose-gays?
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So the staples don't snag clothes.
Why do you put a third mum back on the mum?
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FALSE!!!!!
T or F The floral tape sticks if you don't stretch it.
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sugar-provides nourishment for the cut flowers,
a biocide- inhibits the growth of fungi and bacteria, an acidifier- lowers the pH of the water.
What are the 3 ingredients in floral food AND what are their functions?
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green
What is the compliment of red?
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twentieth century Americans.
Who invented the line-mass style?
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Staple a loop of ribbon to the middle mumback.
How do you make a hanging hook for a mum?
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Anchor Tape
What kind of tape do we use to secure the floral foam?
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They release more ethylene gas which ages plants.
Why do we not want dead plants in the cooler?
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It uses only one color and the tints and shades of that color only.
What is a monochromatic color scheme?
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The Egyptians. A chaplet is a wreath or garland worn on a person's head.
Who used chaplets and what is a chaplet?
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#9
Which size ribbon is wider, #3 or #9?
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greening pin
What did we use to secure the grass in the tissue paper carnation design?
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Keeping the flowers in the cooler slows down respiration- the process of the plant using its stored food and slows down transpiration - a flower losing water
Why two processes does the floral cooler slow down AND what are the definitions for those two processes?
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Any answer is correct that is 3 colors next to each other on the color wheel.
Name three analogous colors
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The English. A topiary generally looks like a ball of flowers on a pole in a pot.
Who developed the topiary and what does a topiary generally look like?
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#40
What number was the largest size of ribbon we used?
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