Video: Using Floral Mechanics in Creative Ways

 

 

In this video, you’ll discover how to use floral mechanics—specifically floral netting, floral foam, and a tape grid—together to support floral elements in a creative way!

Some flowers, containers, and designs are best suited for floral netting (also called chicken wire). Other flowers work best with tape—and yet some others need the firm support of foam.

What happens when you want to use flowers who need different levels of support? What if you have an idea for a design that needs firm support in one area and loose support in another?

When the basic floral mechanics of floral netting, floral foam, and waterproof tape grids come together, the options and possibilities for fresh floral designs are elevated! Teamwork has that effect on things.

Ingredients Used in this Floral Arrangement

Below, you’ll find the list of floral ingredients I use in this design.

• Pieris: with its branching gestures, it offers shape and low coverage

• Golden Rain Tree: as an accent to pieris, it creates a horizontal implied line

• Foxtail Lilies: these are the backbone of the arrangement, offering movement through an actual line

• Grass: a backdrop for the foxtail lilies, adding texture, shape and a radial line

• Poinsettia: a sure focal point

Floral Mechanics Used in this Floral Design

I also use these three types of mechanics in the arrangement.

• Floral foam

• Floral netting/chickenwire

• Waterproof tape

You’ll see there's a prominent technique used of bundling of grass.

Principles of Design Utilized in this Arrangement

Finally, seven prominent principles of design are used throughout:

• Balance (visual) through repetition in color (gold/green and gold/neutrals) and (physical) using heavy pieris on left 2/3 with light foxtail on right 1/3

• Movement through lines (implied horizontal: rain tree) and (actual vertical: foxtail lily) and radiation (grass)

• Rest through dominance (foxtail lily line) or focal point (poinsettia)

Let’s create together! Let me know what combo of floral mechanics works best for you over on the Team Flower Community.