Valentine's Day Flower Arrangements

Valentine's Day Flower Arrangements

How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement Part-IX

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Tools for Making a Tall Wedding Floral Arrangement

How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement Part-VIII

How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement
How to Add Greenery to a Wedding Floral Arrangement

How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement Part-VII

How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement
Tips for Using Wire in Floral Arrangements

How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement Part-VI

How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement
How to Use Wire in a Wedding Floral Arrangement

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How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement
How to Use Floral Foam in a Wedding Arrangement

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How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement
How to Add Flowers to Floral Foam

How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement Part-III

How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement
How to Pick a Vase for a Wedding Centerpiece

How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement Part-II

How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement :
How to Prepare Flowers for Floral Arrangements

How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement Part-I

How to Make a Wedding Flower Arrangement

Red Rose

Dark, bright red Hybrid Tea. The perfect cutting rose, long stems, 4" blooms, the glossy leaves are mildew resistant, slightly fragrant.

Parrot Tulip

Parrot Tulip
Parrot tulips were already in existence in 1665. These plants are only produced from mutations; they are never reproduced from seeds. Possibly, they originated from cottage tulips. The old varieties were too feeble to stand up straight because the flowers were so heavy; they were always hanging over. Offspring from Darwin, Triumph, and Single Early tulips have improved the Parrot tulips. The flowers are fringed; the petals are not smooth along the margins, but decorated with parrot feathers. Individual flowers are multicoloured with yellow, green, orange or red stripes.

Parrot Tulips have petals that are feathered, curled, twisted, or waved. Besides this, the flowers are very large and brightly coloured. As a result, Parrot Tulips are extremely flamboyant. If you want dramatic tulips, these are a great choice.

Parrot Tulips were developed from mutations of certain late-flowering tulips, and from tulips in the Triumph class. As a result, some are late spring flowering, and some are mid-spring flowering. Heights also vary somewhat.

Yellow Tulip

Yellow Tulip
The flower began to grow and soon, long slender leaves began to sprout and petals emerged. As time went on, the Yellow Tulip’s leaves and petals began to wither. The Tulip felt that love was hopeless and was now alone.

Spring approached and The Yellow Tulip began to open herself up to the sun; which is where she found what she had been searching for all along. The sun would never let her down, she realized that he would always be there to protect and nurture her. The Yellow Tulip was now focused, calm and rejuvenated. Her sense of peace was evident to all that met her.

The Yellow Tulip strives to bring you calmness and rejuvenation. All of your health needs will be catered to. The Yellow Tulip will provide your body and mind with a wide variety of treatments that will leave you feeling relaxed, refreshed and complete.

Hybrid Tea rose

Hybrid Tea rose
One of the most popular rose types, these are tall, long-stemmed roses ideal for cutting--the roses you usually see at the florist. The flowers are usually borne singly, one to a stem, rather than in clusters. Blooms have a high-center point. In the garden they are often featured as single specimens or in a traditional rose cutting garden. Many varieties reveal a beautiful fragrance.
Hybrid Teas Roses are tall, elegant plants producing the classic long-stem rose. They produce individual blossoms and flower repeatedly during the season. Hardy in zones 4-9.

Hybrid Tea Roses are a Cultivar Group of roses, created by cross-breeding two different types of roses. Grown one flower to a long stem, they are supported by long, straight and upright stems. Hybrid Tea Roses can be as tall as 6 feet. Each rose bloom can be up to 5" in diameter. Hybrid Tea Roses are one of the world's most popular types of roses due to their color and flower form. Their long stems make these roses popular as cut flowers.

Flower Arrangements

Flower Arrangements






Use flexible, non-corrosive florist's wire to keep flowers in place in a vase. Place some inside the vase and then wrap some around the outside of the vase.

Stones, frosted marbles, and sea glass can also act as a frog in a vase. To add an extra touch, insert tiny waterproof lights. They last about 18 hours in water. Place them under the stones to light up the stones.

Wrap curly willow wire around your hand and insert it into a round bowl vase. Add a few flowers. The willow wire will keep the flowers in place. Change the water every two to three days.

To arrange flowers in a wide-mouthed glass container, use clear florist's tape. Clean the edge of the vase with vinegar so that the tape will stick to the glass. Crisscross the tape across the opening, creating little squares. Insert flowers into each opening.

Use items around the house to make interesting and beautiful arrangements. Fill a large pitcher with hydrangeas and roses, for example.

Fill a small teapot with dainty flowers.

Wrap a bunch of grass around your hand and insert it into a glass vase. This makes the vase look more natural.

Use rainbow foam to create a display. Just place the desired amount in a zippered bag and add water until the foam is wet. Layer the foam by color in a wide-mouthed vase. Place a sheet of plastic wrap between each layer. Add more water after each layer. Insert flowers.

Stones, frosted marbles, and sea glass can also act as a frog in a vase. To add an extra touch, insert tiny waterproof lights. They last about 18 hours in water. Place them under the stones to light up the stones.

Wrap curly willow wire around your hand and insert it into a round bowl vase. Add a few flowers. The willow wire will keep the flowers in place. Change the water every two to three days.

To arrange flowers in a wide-mouthed glass container, use clear florist's tape. Clean the edge of the vase with vinegar so that the tape will stick to the glass. Crisscross the tape across the opening, creating little squares. Insert flowers into each opening.

Use items around the house to make interesting and beautiful arrangements. Fill a large pitcher with hydrangeas and roses, for example.

Fill a small teapot with dainty flowers.

Wrap a bunch of grass around your hand and insert it into a glass vase. This makes the vase look more natural.

Use rainbow foam to create a display. Just place the desired amount in a zippered bag and add water until the foam is wet. Layer the foam by color in a wide-mouthed vase. Place a sheet of plastic wrap between each layer. Add more water after each layer. Insert flowers.

Polyantha Roses

Polyantha Roses
Polyantha is Greek for 'blooming' and the very first Polyantha rose is attributed to Guillots' "Paquerette" which was introduced in 1875. The Polyanthas turned out to be great bloom producers, repeating through summer and fall. Blooms are generally 1 to 2 inches in diameter and in large clusters.

Colors are delicate creams, pinks and golds. The foliage is supposedly disease rsistant but some disease, especially blackspot, has been noticed. These are great rose bushes for the warmer south and the more arid conditions. Some do not tolerate extreme cold. As was noted earlier, they have been surpassed by their younger relative the "Floribunda" and therefore tend to be overlooked a little.

This is a group of small flowered roses, developed by crossing dwarfs of Rosa multiflora with dwarf China roses. Extremely tough and continuously flowering, Polyanthas are ideal used as border plants or in containers. They are quite hardy, dependable and carefree to grow but most have little or no scent. Polyanthas are characterized by a profusion of flowers in many colors and a tidy growth habit. It was Polyanthas that were combined with Hybrid Teas to create the Floribundas. They are useful for creating bright accents in the garden because they produce lots of color over they season. 'Mlle. Cécile Brünner', 'Perle d'Or' and 'Clotilde Soupert' are familiar Polyantha roses and have continued as a minor group up until the present, however they are somewhat overshadowed by their successors, the Floribundas.

Pruning Polyanthas is very similar to pruning Floribundas. Many small canes are produced, with clusters of many small flowers so deadheading would seem to be a problem but evidently it isn't as they drop easily. All dead canes should be removed but light pruning is the order of the day: no more than one quarter of the growth from healthy canes. Almost just like a haircut!

Even though the Polyantha Roses have been overshadowed by the Florubundas, these small, compact bushes with masses of small, scented flowers, offer an interesting addition to our rose beds. A fronting hedge, a container collection or perhaps a low groundcover, these roses of history still pay handsomely for their keep.

Rambling roses

Rambling roses
Rambling roses are older and closer to wild roses and were developed between 1800 and 1921. They are generally more vigorous and disease resistant than the more modern climbers, can grow up to 20 feet tall in one season and are mostly hardy to Zone 4. The blooms of ramblers are smallish, less than two inches across and bloom in dense clusters, although some of the newer varieties have larger flowers. Many ramblers are vulnerable to mildew.

Noisette Roses

Noisette Roses
The Noisette roses can be traced back to the time when a rice farmer in Charleston South Carolina named John Champney received 'Old Blush', also known as 'Parson's Pink China', from his neighbor Philippe Noisette.

Philippe Noisette came to Charleston from France via Haiti in the early 1800's. Distinguished horticulturists made up his family in France. Philippe became the superintendent of the South Carolina Medical Society's Botanical Garden. A large tract of land was purchased on the outskirts of the city where there was room for gardens and a nursery. This became known as the Noisette farm.

John Champney received 'Old Blush' from his neighbor Philippe Noisette, and crossed it with Rosa moschata. This resulted in 'Champney's Pink Cluster' (1802), a major contribution from an American grower to the rose family. John Champney then gave Philippe seedlings of 'Champney's Pink Cluster' in return for Philippe having given John 'Old Blush'. Philippe sowed the seeds of 'Champney's Pink Cluster' and produced 'Blush Noisette', which he sent to his brother in France in 1814. This started a new craze to breed a group of roses known as the Noisettes. Thomas Rivers wrote about 'Blush Noisette' or 'Rosier Noisette' in The Rose Amateur's Guide, "Perhaps no new rose was ever so much admired as this. When first introduced its habit was so peculiar, and so unlike any other known variety, that the Parisian amateurs were quite enraptured with it." Redouté painted 'Blush Noisette' in 1821 under the name Rosa noisettiana (see illustration at the top of this page). The rose was also classified and described by the botanist Claude-Antoine Thory to accompany the Redouté.

The early Noisettes combined the broad, shrubby habit, and scented large clusters of the Musk Roses with the pink coloring, larger flowers and continuous blooming pattern of the Chinas. 'Blush Noisette' is blush colored, but other varieties come in a spectrum of colors ranging from pure white to crimson. Around 1825 French rose breeders started to try and obtain yellow Noisettes by crossing 'Blush Noisette' with 'Park's Yellow China'. This produced many great beauties. When the early Noisettes (Musk x China) were crossed with Teas they produced the Tea-Noisettes.

Bourbon Roses

Bourbon Roses
These roses are said to have originated off the coast of Madagascar. These roses have semi climbing shrubs and a purple tinted cane. They are probably the result of a cross between the Autumn Damask and the Old Bush China rose.
Bourbon Roses are named for the Ile Bourbon, now called Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, where they traditionally are supposed to have originated from a natural cross between the China `Parsons' Pink' and the red `Tous-les-Mois', a Damask Perpetual, two roses which were used as hedge material on the island. (This, however, is an area of hot dispute in almost every particular.) Seeds of thisSouvenir de la Malmaison plant, and cuttings of the plant, showed up in Paris in 1819 and 1821 respectively. The way in which the virtues of its disparate parents were combined made these new roses popular, and after ten years of largely unsuccessful attempts, good new Bourbons began to come out of the breeding grounds in the 1830's. In the best of them, vigor was combined with floriferousness, and beauty with fragrance.

A typical Bourbon will have the arching growth harkening back to its Damask ancestors, with the lush flowers and fragrance from much the same source; but it will also have a strong tendency to rebloom from the China ancestor, as well as a certain often subtle influence of the China flower form. Bourbons, however, are often not typical at all, and range from the arching growth just mentioned to the very dwarf, China-like growth of the cultivar 'Hermosa', indeed one of the oldest Bourbons still available (it had shown up by 1835). They range in color from deep reds through pinks to blush and white.

Bermuda Rose

Bermuda Rose
These roses were found to be growing in Bermuda for a century. They are highly resistant to plant diseases and loss like nematode damage and fungal diseases.
For the few species of plants and trees that are endemic, the considerable number that are native and the vast majority that were introduced, see Bermuda Plants. There is no wet and dry season, but summer droughts and winter gales are common. It has a sub tropical and frost free climate. There is a constantly high humidity, especially from May to October, but no frost or snow. Temperatures rarely drop below 50 degrees F or rise above 90 degrees F.

The surrounding Atlantic Ocean and proximity of the Gulf Stream exert a moderating influence on the climate. Bermuda soil is alkaline, limestone in origin and with depth from two to three feet to an inch or less. Below it is solid limestone.

Every year, Brightwater Holidays of the United Kingdom (Cupar, Fife, Scotland) feature under "Island Holidays" their "Gardens of Bermuda" tours

Bermuda has numerous areas on trails, woodlands and even private roads with plants including poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) and stinging nettles, very similar in size and shape to those in North America. Keep well clear of them

China Roses

China Roses
(Rosa bracteata)
As evident from their name, the China roses were grown in East Asia. These roses bloom repeatedly in summer and in late autumn. These flowers also tan in time. They are smaller and less fragrant than other roses. They also bloom poorly.
A rose is a perennial flower shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species and comes in a variety of colors. The species form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. It is a common error to refer to roses having thorns. But thorns are modified leaves, whereas these sharp protrusions on a rose are modified epidermal tissues (prickles). Most are native to Asia, with smaller numbers of species native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Natives, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and fragrance. [1]

The leaves are alternate and pinnately compound, with sharply toothed oval-shaped leaflets. The plant's fleshy edible fruit is called a rose hip. Rose plants range in size from puny, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach 20 meters in height. Species from different parts of the world easily hybridize, which has given rise to the many types of garden roses.

The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed from Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf. Armenian vard, Avestan warda, Sogdian ward, Also the Hebrew ורד = vered and the Aramaic ורדא: these preceded the Greek above. Parthian wâr).[2][3]

Attar of rose is the steam-extracted essential oil from rose flowers that has been used in perfumes for centuries. Rose water, made from the rose oil, is widely used in Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine. The French are known for their rose syrup, most commonly made from an extract of rose petals. In the United States, this French rose syrup is used to make rose scones.

Rose hips are occasionally made into jam, jelly, and marmalade, or are brewed for tea, primarily for their high Vitamin C content. They are also pressed and filtered to make rose hip syrup. Rose hips are also used to produce Rose hip seed oil, which is used in skin products and some makeup products.

China Rose (Hibiscus)

China Rose (Hibiscus)
Hibiscus grow wild in many tropical, subtropical, and warm-temperate regions around the world.
Hibiscus is a diverse genus made up of roughly 220 species of annuals, herbaceous perennials, shrubs, subshrubs, and trees. Hibiscus have been cultivated for centuries. The name 'Hibiscus' comes from hibiskos, the old Greek name for the common marsh mallow. The most commonly grown species is Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, which means China Rose.

Hibiscus are large, flat, conspicuous, trumpet-shaped flowers. Hiscus flowers have five petals, ranging from white to pink, red, purple or yellow. The Hisbiscus petals range in size from 4-15 cm broad.

Damask Roses

Damask Roses
Rosa damascena
The Damask bloom once in summer. They have more vicious thorns than many other rose types. The Damask rose was first seen in 1254.

Damask Roses are supposed to be from a hybridization between R. gallica and R. phoenicia which occurred in Asia Minor and became distributed throughout Syria and the Near East and Middle East generally. The Crusaders--according to tradition--brought it back to Europe from Damascus (hence the name) in 1254. However, there is a most daunting and seemingly impenetrable fog around R. damascena. References can be found to "the common Damask" as late as the 1820's, and yet what an author is referring to by this term remains elusive. It indeed frequently seems that "the Common Damask" is rather a Damask Perpetual!
Worse, cultivars which we today consider as defining the group--`Leda', perhaps, and 'Mme. Hardy'--seem to have been hybrids. 'Celsiana', a most beautiful and popular rose, is possibly "typical" Damask; and yet, even it has its mystery (current research seems to indicate that the "pre-1750" date usually put forward is whimsical). Even 'York and Lancaster', frequently considered to be a sport of the original (red?) Damask, is supposed by one authority to be an Alba on the basis of a
sporting back to something like the Alba 'Semiplena'! The cultivar used
for the rose oil industry in Bulgaria, `Trigintipetala', supposedly a
long-ago import from Turkey, is perhaps dependably R. damascena . . . .
That said, characteristics associated with our concept of what a Damask
should look like are: upright frequently arching canes, grayish-green
somewhat rugose somewhat hirsute leaves, large fragrant blossoms in
few-flowered clusters, delicate in appearance, and ranging in color
from white to deep pink depending on the cultivar. 'Ville de
Bruxelles', `Celsiana', `Mme. Hardy', 'Mme. Zoetmans', 'Kazanlyk'.

Alba Roses

Alba Roses (white roses)
The alba are white roses which are derived from the Rosa arvensis and the Rosa alba. They are the oldest garden roses. These flowers flower once every year in the spring. They mostly have blossoms of white or pale pink.

Alba Roses are hybrids whose antiquity may go back further than the Roman Empire. Pliny, who lived from 23-79 A.D., mentioned white roses in his Natural History. Botanists believe these roses may have been Albas.

Graham Thomas supports Dr. C. C. Hurst's theory that Albas are derived from the dog rose, Rosa canina, and the Damask rose, Rosa damascena. (More on this can be found in The Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book).

Albas make elegant upright shrubs with beautiful blue-green foliage, which some may call grey. Botanists have differentiated the Albas from other roses by their grey, scentless leaflets. They only bloom in spring. They have delicate coloring ranging from white through exquisite soft shades of pink. They have a penetrating pure rosy fragrance with tones of citrus. They are resistant to disease for the most part. Many can tolerate shade, drought, and are winter hardy.

Christopher Brickell suggests pruning Albas like Centifolias, Mosses, and most Damasks. He groups these roses together because they mainly flower on short lateral and sublateral shoots produced from second-year or older wood. These roses also regularly produce vigorous basal or near-basal shoots, which may grow 5-8 feet in one season. He suggests tipping back unripe or damaged shoots in the first year. For the second and following years, he suggests cutting back long new basal growths by up to one-third in February or March. He notes that care must be taken not to cut back the new shoots too much or the elegant arched habit can be lost. He also recommends cutting back laterals on flowered shoots to 2-3 eyes or 4-6 inches. It is also a good idea to cut out any badly placed shoots. In addition, summer dead-heading and tipping back extra-long growths to minimize wind-rock is encouraged in September to November.