Flowers By Post

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When it comes to arranging flowers by post you may be happy with just plunking a few different types together in a vase. Colours in flower arrangement should complement the surroundings that it is being placed into, thus the colour, shape and style of the arrangement all need to be taken into consideration. 

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Colours In Flower Arranging

      Colour in bouquet design can be very exciting and it is always worth doing a lot of experimenting. It is a very personal thing and everyone has different ideas about which colours go together. It is a good idea to stick to recognized colour schemes in commercial work unless you have discussed and unusual harmonies with customers. The basic colour harmonies are: monochromatic; Split complimentary; complimentary; near complimentary; contrast; analogous; triadic or tetradic. Design and competitive work, on the other hand, gives a lot of scope for experimentation with colour. Even the occasional quirky colour combo in a flowers by post range can be fun and rewarding to your potential and existing client base.

  A pink rose in bud will appear to be pale; when it reaches its peak it will be slightly darker, and when it starts to mature it will become even darker. At each stage of maturity the colour will slightly change. This is the case with many flowers.

A monochromatic hand-tied design might include 'Nicole' roses, nerines, 'Montreux' lilies, hypericum and 'Dark Flamenco' chrysanthemums. Lovely rich colour appeals to some people, a combination of paler varieties to others: wax-flowers, 'Starlight' gerber a, pale pink eustoma, 'Le Reve' lilies and 'Evelien' roses.

Consider putting the first group with pale peach. Exchange the 'Nicole' rose for a 'Gerdo' rose and substitute chrysanthemum ' Dark Flamenco' for 'Salmon Reagan'. This is unusual colour harmony but the rich burgundy colour with peach looks very good. It's all a question of trying out different colour schemes and making them work.

A very effective harmony is to put pale peach, pale lavender, pale pink and pale yellow together. This has been done and looks wonderful, but as I say, it's all a matter of taste.

  Foliage and colour

  Most foliage available in the markets is green. There is also a vast range of foliage that may be sourced locally, and if you can find some 'tame' gardens which need a prune ever so often, this will give a wider scope to your foliage and twigs. Cornus in winter has lovely red, yellow or deep burgundy stems, depending on the variety, and can add colour in a different way. Pot plants are a good source for individual leaves. Bergonia rex looks very good in a bridal bouquet based on predominantly pink flowers, and croton leaves add interest to a limited flower bouquet using yellow or orange gerbera. A large glass vase filled with 'Professor Blaauw' irises and gerbera 'Tamara', using large fatsia leaves will look stunning in the correct setting.

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Flowers by post : Creating harmony within a flower arrangement

    It is difficult to define the principle of harmony and describe the way to achieve it within an arrangement, as it relies not on the application of one or two elements but rather on the sum total of all the parts successfully coming together to create a harmonious and pleasing whole. To try to simplify this, harmony can be described as the accord or unity between the various elements of a design that make it an artistically pleasing arrangement. Balance, rhythm and repetition, scale and proportion, dominance and contrast all effectively working together to create harmony within a display. None of the design principles should be in conflict with the others or with the overall design unless used as a deliberate exercise in contrast.

The Harmonising of the entire display can be achieved in a number of ways, by the repetition or similarity of texture, style, shape and colour between the flowers, foliage, container and surroundings. The harmonious relationship of an arrangement with it's surroundings should not be confused with scale and proportion, which rely on compatibility of size and quality. Harmony requires not only this but also sympathetic combinations of flower types, colours and styles of designs and containers to form an integral part of the surroundings in which they are displayed. To use a familiar example again, a rustic basket of garden flowers in a country cottage illustrates this very well. This harmony example of arrangement is very prominent in Blakeworth flowers by post and can be seen throughout the online shop.

To achieve harmony it is useful to look at the combinations of materials to be found in nature. A woodland and country-style arrangement of branches, primroses, bluebells and moss displayed on a piece of wood or bark looks 'right'. The addition of flowers such as carnations or roses, even if a suitable color, would ruin the overall effect, as they would not be in harmony with the simple wild flowers.

Often the simplest and apparently uncontrived arrangements are the most successful in achieving overall harmony. Too much variety in materials and colours, of either flower or accessories, can confuse an destroy the final effect. Two extremes as examples of harmonious display would be a large stone jar filled with sheep's parsley flowers and wild oats in the sympathetic surroundings of a country-style kitchen or a cottage room. Anthuriums, on the other hand, demand a much more sophisticated treatment. Arranges in a black lustre glass vase with some equally bold leaves such as strelitzia or monstera, they make a bold statement which needs to be matched by equally bold surroundings such as a modern hotel foyer or apartment containing strong visual impact.

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Flowers by post UK, direct from our expert florists, ordered online. Beautiful fresh flowers arranged using the finest quality online flowers.

We have flowers posted to us on occasions and anniversaries and as much as we would like to keep them fresh for eternity .People have been trying to keep their flowers by post fresh using all methods they have learnt either from their grandmothers or from some article in a magazine.

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How to bring Rhythm into flower arrangements

Rhythm within a flower arrangement gives movement and continuity, which enable the finished design to be viewed easily and stimulate interest. This perceived movement can come from colour through the design or from the line or shape of a particular piece of foliage providing a strong visual line along which the eye is drawn. A good example of this is the flowing, gently curved shape of bear grass, which adds greatly to any design, or the sharp straight lines of broom, which will lift an arrangement with such a strong vertical line that it appears to soar upwards. A bouquet with this rising movement in the Blakeworth flowers by post range is 'Lampton wonder' which has just been added to the shop recently. Rhythm thus gives  movement and excitement, without which the arrangement is solid, ordinary and fragmented.

Other elements also contribute to effective rhythm: repetition and radiation. They might not be particularly important individually, but as a whole they can greatly change and improve an arrangement.

Repetition can be achieved by forming pattern lines or groupings of material within a design. Usually the same type and colour of flower is grouped together; similar shapes positioned together will have the same effect. A pattern line of spray carnations can extend from the topmost bud in an arrangement down through the design and diagonally off to one side at the base. Likewise a line of distinctive flowers like irises can be placed through an arrangement from the point of a symmetrical triangle down to the focal area, which is formed by grouped irises. This focal area can then be strengthened by the addition of one or two large laves such as hosta or bergenia. A finer or divided leaf like fern or ruscus would not add the necessary strength to the central group that the larger leaves do. This grouping of materials and of colour forms continuous threads through the arrangement of flowers that give the impression of movement. Repetition or placement of several groups of the same flower can also achieve this. Some flowers by their very size, shape or colour can be too dominant in a design if grouped strictly in a pattern line, as they would stand out from the surrounding smaller, lighter flowers.

 Transitional flowers are those whose size bridges the gap from small to larger blooms. An example of this would be spray carnations at the top of a flower arrangement, dahlias at the base and carnation blooms in between the two. A gradual change in size is achieved, and the repetition of the same circular flower shape ensures a smooth transition. Transitional flowers and shapes are important to a study of rhythm as they compliment the pattern lines of a design, therefore allowing the eye to travel easily from one pattern grouping to the next. Generally speaking, this transition should be as gentle and unobtrusive as possible.

 Colour pays an important part in achieving transition. By using tints, tones and shades, stronger, brighter colours can be blended together effectively to form a pleasing mix of flowers that would otherwise overshadow the rest of the design. Gerbera are a good example of this. The perfect circles of the flower command attention even if pastel colours are used. For flowers such as these, small individual groupings within the display are more effective than a complete pattern line. Three blooms together on one side above the focal area and five or seven flowers diagonally opposite below the focal area form a far more pleasing design than a complete line. The uneven numbers of three, five or seven blooms achieve visual balance because of their positions within the flower arrangement, the lesser number being higher in the display than the larger number, helping with an upward movement.

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Conditioning woody stems for arrangement

The method of conditioning a plant depends on the stem structure. In this blog entry I'm going to look at the conditioning of woody stemmed flowers. These flowers include: Forsythia, Prunus, Lilac, Azalea, Trachelium, Salix, Escallonia, Chrysanthemum blooms, Philadelphus, Malus, Rhododendron, Viburnum, Daphne, Spiraea, Larger roses and stocks.

 A great deal of woody-stemmed material is now commercially available. Shrubby flowers such as forsythia, prunus, virburnum and lilac are grown to provide early blossom. This type of branching material is extremely useful for large displays and found in many Blakeworth bouquets, they are a distinctive and unusual addition to the usual flowers by post.

The stems of these flowers area all generally hard, woody branches, which can have difficulty in absorbing water. Previously is was widely believed that the base of the stems should be crushed with a hammer; however, this idea has now been challenged. The reasons for this change of method has been explained in one off my previous blogs, but in a nutshell, damaged stems will contaminate the water and therefore cut the life of the flowers and foliage in the bouquet. Although the basic principal of splitting the stem is correct, excessive crushing can do more harm than good. Splitting the stem using a knife is widely considered as the correct methodology of conditioning these stems. A cross-cut of about 3.5cm in depth at the base of the stem is sufficient enough to allow the plant to absorb water.

Another problem associated with certain types of shrubbery flowers is wilting foliage. Even with correct conditioning the foliage will still wilt whilst the flowers remain firm. Possibly this is because the combined demands for water from both flowers and the leaves is too much for the cut branch to sustain. This is particularly noticeable with lilac and Prunus. Removal of some or all of the foliage not only allows the blossoms to receive more water but enables them to be seen to much greater advantage.

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Most people know what they like when it comes to choosing a picture, a piece of furniture, fabrics for the home, or an arrangement or bouquet of flowers. There is something about the piece, it's colour, shape or more significantly its design which triggers a reaction, an emotion onus, perhaps of recognition and appreciation. Seldom are the elements which create good design analysed: mostly their combination seems so effortless and natural that it is difficult to pinpoint any one exactly within the complete piece of work. This is the goal and what Blakeworth achieve in all their flowers by post.

  There are two kinds of balance which can be applied to a piece of floristry work: 'actual' and 'visual'. Actual or physical balance simply means that the object is physically stable and will not fall over or tilt to one side. Visual balance is slightly more complex and often open to different or personal interpretation. Generally speaking, and arrangement will appear to be visually unbalanced if it is top heavy, bottom heavy or lop-sided. Although perfectly stable, the design will look uncomfortable and unbalanced because it contains visual elements which are individually too dominant and draw the eye away from the rest of the design.

Actual Balance

To achieve actual balance within a design the plant material must be placed so as to spread the weight evenly over the entire area of the flower arrangement or bouquet. If a large arrangement has too many heavy flowers grouped towards the front and all the stems are placed within the same small area, it will be in danger of falling over. If the same number of flowers is grouped for exactly the same effect but their stems are placed more evenly over the surface, the design will be balanced. As a general guide, in achieving actual balance, smaller slender materials are used to form an outline and larger heavier flowers are placed towards the centre.

Visual Balance

In general the eye is drawn to the area in the design that is perceived to contain the most interest. In a flower arrangement this could be either a concentration of colour or a grouping of distinctive shapes or forms of flowers, foliage, fruits or seed heads. The materials in a visually balanced design will be arranged around an imaginary vertical or horizontal axis so that the eye is drawn equally to both sides. This is not to say that equal amounts of material must be used either side of the imaginary centre axis, as such rigid symmetry can make a design monotonous. Instead both sides of the axis should have the same visual weight, irrespective of the materials used. For example, a group of three roses on one side of a design could be counterbalanced with one gerber a or a dahlia on the other side. Although the quantity and type of flower differ, the larger size and repetitive circular shape of the gerba visually balance the three roses. Likewise, in a large pedestal display tall gladioli or delphiniums used to form a strong centre point to the arrangement can be visually balanced by a few long trailing stems of ivy or a suitably strong grouping of large hosta or bergenia leaves at the base of the design. With both examples the strong linear effect of the flowers is counterbalanced by the movement and softness of the trailing ivy or the solidity and visual weight of the large host and bergenia leaves. In both examples visual balance has been created even though the placement of the materials is not symetrical.

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Things You Did Not Know About Sending Flowers by Post UK

Sending flower by post can be one of the most beautiful things to do. For some sending flowers by post UK could be a romantic gesture, for others sending flowers can be a way of apologizing for mistakes done unknowingly, while to someone may choose to send flowers as a goodwill gesture. Flowers come in a wide variety of shapes, fragrances and colours and just as the difference in the outwardly qualities, there are some inherent features that tick off some individuals differently. In some they evoke bad memories while in some they bring to sweet memories to mind which are good or bad depending on what they associate the qualities of the flower. You might do something horribly wrong unintentionally and make the recipients hate you more than ever!

Sending flowers that cause allergy: 

This one is so tricky that there is no way you can prevent it from happening unless you know the recipient very closely.People are allergic to all sort of flowers. Some allergies are so rare that there is no way you can play 100% safe here! You will have to take your chances. Before sending flowers by post UK talk with a florist and find out the most benign specimen ever. In case you want to be extra sure, call up the recipient and ask if everything was OK. That is the best you can do.

Bigger Does Not Mean Better:

It is almost some encoded deep in boys. To them it seems that bigger is undoubtedly better. Think again, because most girls hate when they receive a huge bouquet. Well, they will be impressed with the size of the bouquet the moment they see it, but the initial reaction will quickly degenerate into worries and sometimes anger when they can’t think of a way to accommodate all the flowers! Forget size, concentrate on form, and invest some money on making the bouquet look spectacular.

Flowers Don’t Always Mean Love:

There are different types of emotions that can be conveyed by sending flowers by post UK. A girl will know what your intentions are behind sending flowers by post UK because most girls have a gut feeling when someone starts appreciating them, so she will probably understand what you intent to say without you actually saying anything. Flowers don’t always mean love, it could be as simple a gesture as ‘thank you’. With that said, there are no guarantees that girls are all too clear in their head, it’s easy to have someone confused specially when the matter involves something as special as flowers! Just to make sure you don’t confuse the recipient add a card on top to convey your feelings clearly!

So there you go, you would not want to set off sneeze frenzy, or make them crazy with a jumbo sized bouquet and lastly you would not want them to get confused about your intentions. The next time you think of sending flowers by post UK, remember these simple things.

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Creative uses of old flowers

So you received some flowers by post from someone special and you want to keep those with you even after the flowers have dried up. This can be done if you learn techniques of preserving dried flowers. After drying the flowers up, you can use them as ornaments (yes, floral ornaments!) or make unique gift cards with them. So let us get into it.

Dried or Fresh ?

Some of the methods that I am about to share with you here cannot be accomplished with dried flowers. For instance, if you want to smell like the flower bouquet, then you need the flowers to be fresh, because you cannot make perfume out of dried flowers. We will get more into perfume making a little later, but for now make sure that you condition the flowers according to the purpose. Flowers by post arrive fresh, so you would not have to worry about making them fresher than they already are, you can however put them in a vase of fresh water just to make sure that get enough water to remain hydrated. 

However, drying flowers properly is a long and tedious process unless you want to let the flowers rot! There are many guides on the internet that will teach you more about drying cut flowers, which you can use in processing your bouquet. So now that you have the flowers dry or fresh as per the demand of the situation, let us proceed further and see how flowers received by post can be used for make useful things.

Perfume from Gift Flowers

Flowers by post takes  no more than a few weeks to reach their destination, if you have ever received flowers by post, you should have noticed that  they remain considerably fresh, if not garden fresh, and that much of freshness is enough to extract the  biochemical oils that add make flowers smell the way they do. The fresher the flowers are the easier it becomes to extract them.

First get about cup full of the petals from the bouquet and soak them in a pan full filled with about ½ litre of distilled water. Normal tap water has impurities that will overpower the true smell of the flower petals, hence distilled water. You can buy some for cheap at any chemist’s shop. Next, immerse the petals in the water and bring it to a simmer, by this time the oil will be released. Remove the vessel from heat and let it stand for a while. When it has cooled, enough drain the petals with a fine cloth and use the water as perfume.

One caveat we wish to issue here is that perfume made solely from the petals of fresh flowers will have a weak silage and very feeble projection. So apply the perfume in liberal amounts.

Jewellery from Fresh Flowers

What better way of increasing the longevity of flowers than to convert them into lacquered flower ornaments for the ear or the neck! Take your bouquet, untie it and separate large groups in their own bunch, wash them with distilled water and hang them nimbly by a clothesline in a place where the humidity is low. After about a week (5 days in average under dry conditions) your flowers will be ready to proceed to the next step, which is lacquering. Take the flowers out to a place where you can spray lacquer without harming anything around. Apply a mild layer of lacquer on the dried flowers, and then let it dry for a while before applying another gentle layer atop the first. When everything has dried, cut pieces (petals) apart in any shape you want and wear them on your neck or ears anyways you want.

Dried Floral Cards

You probably have seen dried flowers being used as gifts quite often. It is not a bad idea to dry flowers and then use them to make a reciprocating gift on an appropriate occasion. For instance, you make cards with the dried flowers laid in the middle of the card or paste it at the very beginning of the card and write a note explaining the specialty of the dried flowers.

Thus, we have seen three very easy ways of putting flowers by post to good use, there are many others, if you happen to know some share a comment below.

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The Myth about Girls Loving Secret Admirers – Mistakes People Make While Sending Flowers by Post

One time too many flower delivery guys have been at the receiving end of the uncontrollable fury girls feel when they get flowers from secret admirers without any reason or rhyme. Perhaps it is the fear of being summarily rejected or the lack of confidence that keeps boys from signing flowers they send by post or through delivery guys. In the majority of cases, when guys send flowers without signing it, the recipient often feels perturbed and violation of her privacy among other things.

It becomes worse when such incidences keep recurring with greater frequency. There have been times when recipients failed to find answers from delivery guys, they have stormed delivery offices demanding to details of the sender threatening legal action! This goes on to show that sending flowers by post anonymously is not the best idea. Although flower delivery services often let senders remain anonymous, a growing number of shops are changing their policies in order prevent recipients from suffering mental agony of someone stalking them.

If you  ask us, we think it is not entirely prudent to send flowers by post without writing your name on the bouquet because your presumptions of the girl loving your attention might be all misplaced and nothing more than a mere fantasy. Instead of hiding behind the curtain be brave and mention your name upfront. Hiding the name does not work, instead write a creative massage on a card, this might work. A little research on the internet will give you more than enough inspiration to express your pent up emotions!

What Usually Happens When Girls Receive Unwanted Gifts

While you might be fantasizing wonderful things being done to the flowers you sent to that special somebody, in reality the flowers may be rotting at the bottom of trash can! Some come up with rather ingenious methods of getting rid of unwanted flowers, but mostly such things are dumped unceremoniously in dustbins or given away to someone else.

Therefore, if you want to be credited for flowers by post , write your name on it with a little message explaining the recipient the reason for your action that might be more productive. And finally do not overdo the secret-admirer-flower-sender act, you will end up in a cess pool of troubles!

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Before creating an amazing arrangement or bouquet you must condition the stems. Conditioning the stems will ensure the flowers and foliage will remain at their very best for the longest period possible.

Start by re-cutting the stems, stems dry out quickly and can be prone to stem blockages (an air-lock) so this is essential to prolong the life of the bloom. The airlock usually forms when the stem is first cut, atmospheric pressure pushes air into the water ducts creating a blockage and thus reducing the stems natural vacuum. It is very important that you cut the bottom of the stems at an angle so that there is the largest possible surface area of the xylem tissue (the central area of the stem) exposed to absorb the water. Cutting the stem at an angle gives it a single point of contact when resting at the bottom of the vase or bucket, helping to keep a good flow of water into the stem and creating less chance of any bacteria forming. Remove any foliage from the lower part of the stem which will keep the water clear and fresh and free from bacteria.

When cut and stripped of excess foliage, put the stems into a bucket which is quarter full of warm water. Warm water allows the the stem to absorb at a far greater pace. If you are cutting bulb flowers use cool water, unless you want them to open quickly of course. When storing flowers in water ensure that the water and container are clean to prevent any build up of bacteria. Leave the flowers in the water for two to three hours before arranging your bouquet.

In days gone by it was thought that hammering the stem ends (especially woody ends) would prolong the life of the flower. Thankfully this is no longer the case as it causes damage to the stem tissue, making it almost impossible for the stem to take up water. Hammering the stems also leads to a build up of bacteria when stored in water which will shorten the life of the bloom.

There are many different stems - woody, semi woody, soft, hollow, milky and bulbous. Each stem type should be treated differently when conditioning. For instance most bulbous stems are pulled and not cut when supplied direct from the grower. Pulled bulbous flowers will have white and firm stems. The stem will not absorb from the white area, so this has to be  removed leaving only the green part of the stem. Each plant has it's own special requirements and I will write about these in future blog posts.

A question I am often asked is 'how do I revive floppy flower heads?' Well there is one way that is tried and tested… Get a few sheets of newspaper or any other suitable paper you have to hand, roll it around the flowers so that all the heads are now upright. Re-cut the stem at an angle allowing for a larger surface area for the plant to absorb water. Put the flowers (now wrapped in newspaper) into some deep water, give it a couple of hours, take out and hey-presto… you now have upright flower heads, brilliant.

When you buy flowers by post from a quality brand like Blakeworth you can be assured that the flowers in each bouquet created have been conditioned correctly and treated in the best possible way to ensure the longest lasting display of quality flowers.

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A philosophy for flower bouquet design.

There is no rigid formula nor is there one dominating factor that leads to good flower bouquet design.  Constant energy and drive for each bouquet to be ‘in their moment’ is one of the key factors. Each of the stem should be at the height of its own individual season to maximise all it has to offer the design of the bouquet.  It is through years of experience you will understand when that moment has arrived, when the flower is at it’s very best and will perform well in the design.  It is imperative that new designs are not just for each of the four seasons but for the changes within the season also.  

 Is it all mapped out or from some secret formula source?

There are times when bouquet design is planned ahead and each flower featured in a bouquet can be ordered in to meet exact requirements.  Alternatively it’s quite good fun to visit the flower markets and draw inspiration from the plethora of varieties on offer.  Starting with a blank canvas and simply seeing which flowers really speak to you can help form the basis of amazing bouquet design that will be brimming with thought and emotion.  Blakeworth's aim is to be at the forefront of bouquet couture, playing with forgotten colours and bending the rules of tradition and good taste.  To achieve this ambition we prefer to design as and when we are inspired, sometimes homing in on the flowers natural setting, perhaps prickly and spikey, loose and random, like wandering through a wild garden or else safe and in harmony but with a twist. Peonies and garden Roses, soft fluffy Panicus grass and then the twist - Strawberries and Brambles. This is just a small insight into Blakeworth's philosophy and how every effort is taken to provide your flowers by post as something memorable but never predictable.