Rittners School Of Floral Design
In Boston Presents.....

How To Make A Bouquet of Fujis, Yarrow And Roses

This bouquet illustrates how we can create an interesting effect using an unusual combination of materials.....

The combination of fujis, yarrow and roses is a unique one.....

But why not?

Not every one wants to be very traditional in their choices of contents for their bouquets.......

This design gives a very good example of brevity of material for a nontraditional combination.....

Enjoy!!!!

As with all bouquets shown our Floral Education Center we believe that on your wedding day you have more than enough to deal with in terms of your guests and details of your bridal party. We do not recommend doing your bouquets yourself.....or leaving them to any amateurs......You don't need the extra pressure on that special day. Leave the construction of your wedding designs to your florist. S/he will stylize something special for you that will meet your every need. Wedding bouquets really do require skill, and ability, not do-it-yourself attempts.....

We are showing you these steps so that you'll appreciate the skills provided by your florist and the labor required to do these.......

Contents of This Design

This design is stylized in a foam bouquet base, (a fairly good sized one to accomodate all of the materials.) Extra picks may be added to the bottoms of the stems to help prevent flower loss.

To start a design such as this one, the overall shape or form must be created. In this case foliage provides the shape. Ming fern is a lovely foliage. It fills space quite quickly and is very soft and fluffy in appearance....

To create our focal area use a few fujis as shown in the photograph.

Next let's start adding a little more form to this design.

We do this by adding some yarrow to the design. Yarrow is placed as shown in the photograph around the edges of the unit.....

Yarrow is a very popular flower. It is available in both live and dried forms....If you buy it live, it can be dried quite easily.....Although we are featuring the golden variety here, it also comes in a pink/red form as well.

The design as shown above is far too sparse. So let's add some roses......

Notice the three placed in the upper left side of the design...........

Complete your flower placement with several roses angled down towards the lower right side of the design.....

Five roses, three fujis and seven yarrow.........Pretty good to be able to come up with a bouquet with only a few items like that............

One last thought......because of the colors presented here, this design would work well for a request for a fall bouquet..........

Here is something, just for the sake of comparison......

Notice how both of these bouquets started essentially the same way with ming fern and fujis.....

It's interesting to see how we can take each one in such widely diverging directions......

We hope that you really enjoyed this bouquet. At Rittners Floral School in Boston we provide floral design instruction that includes a wide range of different styles and techniques. Please come and take one of our hands-on workshop programs!!