Types of bouquets: a small excursion into the world of floristry

It only at first glance it seems that making a bouquet is a simple matter. Just put the stems together one by one, tie with a ribbon or wrap with paper and you're done!

In fact, even to assemble flowers neatly, so that the buds do not stick out crookedly and obliquely, is not an easy task. And to make harmonious, beautiful bouquets, florists diligently study the basics of composition, the combination of shades and plants with each other, assembly techniques, types of bouquets by shape and style. We offer you a little plunge into the wonderful world of floristry.

Perhaps, buying the next bouquet, you will look at it in a different way: you will think about whether it is cascading, linear or asymmetrical? Is it assembled in spirals or circles? It can be fascinating to get an inside look at someone else's profession, to uncover its secrets.

Round bouquet

This is the most common and classic type of bouquet. If the flowers have thin flexible stems or the composition combines several types of plants, the assembly is more often spiral. The flower on the longest stem is placed in the center. The others are joined to it - each slightly below and to the left of the previous one, and at an angle of 45° to the central one.

Spiral assembly

If the stems are stiff enough and slightly different in length (i.e. the buds will not cover each other), you can use the parallel bouquet technique. It is easy to learn and is accessible even to non-professionals.

Parallel assembly

In wedding floristry there is another technique of assembling round bouquets - Biedermeier. Flowers, tightly pressing each other, lay concentric circles. The stems are fastened with adhesive tape.

Biedermeier

Biedermeier can look like a hemisphere, cone, or have a flattened shape. The leaves are usually removed altogether. Or they stick out over the flowers like feathers.

Linear compositions

This is when all the flowers are turned to one side, sometimes arranged in a cascade. Such bouquets are also called vertical. It is this form is considered appropriate for a floral presentation to a man.

Vertical

Cascading

These are a type of vertical compositions. But they are directed downwards, not upwards.

The shape of the bouquet is a triangle with the top at the bottom, or an inverted drop. Sometimes it resembles a waterfall, with longer plants falling down to cover the shorter ones below.

These structures appear fragile and unreliable, as if the nearest gust of wind will blow most of the flowers away. It takes a florist's skill to make it appear otherwise.

Cascade

But brides love cascades. They give the image of lightness, grace, charm. And as if echoing the plume on a long wedding dress.

Such a floral miracle is collected from roses, eustomas, lilies, orchids.

Frame bouquets

In them, plants are attached to a frame of whatever shape the florist needs. It can be:

• heart;
• fan;
• purse;
• cylinder;
• snail.

Or any other shape the florist wants and can create.

frame

Frames are assembled from artificial materials such as wire. Or from branches, stems, greenery.

Such compositions are unusual and self-sufficient, but difficult to execute.

Asymmetrical bouquets

Asymmetry, the appearance of chaos, which in fact is carefully thought out and ordered, is in fashion today. Asymmetrical or, in other words, free compositions create just such an appearance.

Asymmetrical

Although sometimes quite strict asymmetry is used. For example, in one-sided bouquets, when flowers on long stems are lined up behind, and in front of them tiers of more and more low. On the other side of the high flowers there is nothing. "Axis of asymmetry" can be not only vertical, but also horizontal. Also asymmetrical compositions often have an S-shape.

Non-standard

Bouquets have long ceased to be the duty accompaniment of a gift. Today they may well replace a gift. Of course, for this the composition should be bright and unusual.

• A basket of flowers. It looks luxurious, it can be supplemented with non-standard elements. For example, sweets, soft toys.
• Bouquet with candy. In this variant, sweets are attached to skewers and inserted among the stems.
• With fruit. Bright fruits are put on skewers, collected in a bouquet, decorated with flower buds.
• In a hat box. In a sufficiently tall box place flowers on a florist sponge soaked in water.
• In an envelope. A piafflower bouquet peeks coquettishly out of a large, thick envelope.
• Box Bouquet. Combines buds and sweets in a low box.

A casket bouquet

Now you know how many types of fresh flower bouquets there are. If you already want to present your beloved not the standard 5/9/15 roses, but a small work of art, contact our florists - they will be happy to apply their talent.