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What are some of the more less known florist tools or something they'd be working with? I have a mystery story and would like to point to a connection with a by finding an object left at the scene that only the most observant useless knowledge hoarding investigator can identity it points towards a florist (as opposed to home care tools/gardener etc)? Or perhaps it could simply the type of wires or tapes? Might it help if I said broken or torn off stuff works fine as well.

A florist’s best friend are pruners and a pocket knife (like the floral knife Den mentions below!). Maybe a double set of pruners one for smaller stems and another that’s good for cutting larger branches and bigger stems like those of sunflowers but other than that there aren’t any sharp tools in use that could be found at a crime scene. Oddly enough this question makes me think of pin holders, albeit those are plastic and only meant to hold floral foam in place when put into its respective container. You may think there would be no reason for this to end up at the crime scene in your story so that your character can find it, however florists love to play kangaroo. I haven’t met a florist who didn’t have their pouches full of whatever they grabbed during their workday and forgot to put away. So there’s a very good chance your florist character grabbed one extra and just kept it in their pocket and then forgot about it. Same goes for pens, price tags, wires (the decorative kind), pins, extra knives and pruners, gloves… anything really might find their way into a florist’s pockets if given the chance. I also always carried tissues and wrist warmers. Very likely scissors, if they don’t rely on their knife half the time, maybe a pack of staplers.

Bottom line, if there’s a reason for your florist to work with it and it’s small enough, there’s a chance it’s in their pockets and there’s a chance it could have ended up at the crime scene for your detective to find.

That of course doesn’t narrow it down a lot, but the pin holders reminded me something I haven’t thought of in a long while. Ikebana. It’s a specific type of Japanese arrangement with exact rules and specifications, but also it’s very own type of… I tend to think of it as a needle type pin holder, but well it’s not. It’s an arrangement holder to be a little more exact and they’re call kenzan. A usually round metal plate with a whole bunch of needles attached, that make it look like a sort of needle pillow. It allows for very precise floral arrangement and is to my knowledge not used outside of Ikebana because of how the flowers are arranged. With other arrangements even with the use of floral foam they are centred around pivotal point and arranged diagonally in a circle fashion, while Ikebana required an upright arrangement of the stems, which is actually quite hard for florists to get accustomed to if they never practiced it.

This is not to say that the Ikebana needle pins cannot be used outside their intended purpose of the arrangement is so specific that it should require it. It simply isn’t something that florist who aren’t trained in the art would go for in their day-to-day work. And then of course it’s a matter of availability, I have never seen any place with more than one or two of kenzans, and it would be a piece that florists only rent and require their customers to bring back if they do end up using it.

Other than that, and this may sound odd but all florists I’ve ever known used the same two type of knives. For one those run-of-the-mill fruit knives that come in every colour (usually with a hole at the end of handle) but specifically those with a red handle and then the most basic pocket knife with the little swiss emblem – also by a majority in red. Of course they come in different colours as well. Mine’s light blue, but I’ve also seen them in pink, purple and yellow. And both versions are commonly referred to as florist knives. It’s also what google thinks florist knives are.

Florists tend to be attached to their personal pocket knives, and may have a habit of carrying them everywhere as to not lose them so easily. Albeit the fruit knives are a lot easier to replace then the pocket knives and florists also don’t tend to be as possessive about those. However the pocket knives also tend to have initials to tell them apart if the colour doesn’t do the trick. With that being said, most florists would recognize these knives on sight, initials or not.

Actually if your florist character lost their pocket knife at the crime scene and they think they can pull it off I could very well imagine them coming back for it. It’s a personal item potentially with sentimental value to some degree. There are technically also thorn strippers, but they’re unpopular with florists and a last resort if at all. So there is a negative chance that your florist character would lose those of all things at a crime scene. If this character loses a thorn stripper regardless it easily marks them as an amateur, hobbyist or someone very new to the industry. A well-trained florist who’s been doing their job for a while would rather use a knife or snap thorns off with their fingers. (Depends on personal preference, what someone has been taught, and quite often on how thorny the flower stems are).

– Mod Jana

I will say that, at least in college, we tended to use the Swiss Army budding knife as frequently as the floral knife.

(Budding knife: a folding pocket knife with red handle marked with the Swiss Army emblem near the folding end, slightly open showing a squarish blade with a beveled edge near the tip on the opposite side of the cutting edge.)

(Floral knife: a folding pocket knife with red handle marked with the Swiss Army emblem near the folding end, slightly open showing a single blade with the end rounded to taper toward the cutting edge.)

The odd bit on the opposite side of the cutting edge of the budding knife is used in other horticulture matters such as budding and grafting (hence the name) where you want to be able to peel back the outer layers of a plant stem without completely destroying it. We needed these for our propagation classes anyway, so it made sense to use them for the floral design classes as well. That thin, non-cutting bit is just really useful sometimes.

My professor also had a habit of keeping self addressed, stamped padded envelopes in his carry on luggage when he traveled because he would always forget to put his floral knife in the checked luggage and he didn’t want to lose his knives, so he’d drop it in the envelope and mail it back to himself. We get very attached to our favorite floral knives.

~*Mod Den*~

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Not DiU related but

((I love Narancia Ghirga with all my heart I just want him to be happy.

Also Aerosmith is a good band. Steven Tyler is also kinda cute??)) - Mod Den

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(for the most, this is ooc, however still in canon universe.)

3LixXar is the co-host of the in-famous;

THE POWER OF 2WO!

How ever due to anxious tendencies and a few mistakes they don't often show up on camera, no wonder people think there's no co-host!

3l1XxaR is a four sided star shaped bottle full of some form of liquid (presumably an elixir) and many (five sided) stars (believed to be made of sugar..?), they're mostly purple but have a slight blue tone, they have a headset with a microphone and a bright green bowtie.

They'll respond to any asks directed towards them (or two, if needed), in purple, they often misspeak/misspell their words. [Example; H3lL0!] they're rather easy to pick apart from the rest as their demeanor is extremely nervous at almost all times however constantly trying to stay professional, however can be pretty energetic or sweet.

"ѕυgαя σя вσмвѕ? ωнαт'ѕ тнє ∂郃єяєη¢є!"

[example of dialogue written above.]

[a ....unflattering photo of 3LixAr, who is barely in frame.]

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About ɖɛռ ɦʊȶƈɦɨռֆ!! {[Self insert/oc.]}

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Den (or ████████ as her legal name is.) was born in 20XX, to parents; █████ Hutchins & Grace Hutchins, they however did not grow up in Piqua as; When ████████ was 4? 5? 2 ??? younger, their parents divorced, and their father had gotten custody of them, moving to Nevada with him, while Harold and Gabs had ended up staying with their mother, neither of which were the best environments. ████████, despite their high energy, Grew up not very socialized, and anyone they spoke to they weren't very close to, they were always pretty smart, they solved a collage question once. they always had an affinity for making things, whether it be trinkets or doodles, they've built their own tablet to draw with, (and possibly hack into something.), however ████████'s father disapproved of such creativity, and was rather abusive, for the longest time ████████ had to deal with this, eventually; ████████ got sent to a foster shelter(?) and to an array of foster homes, before coming full circle back to Piqua.

It was rather awkward at first, as den didn't really know or remember much from their younger, younger, when they were still at Piqua before, they're still not socially smart as they are with other things. they tend to be horrendously anxious and can be prone to depression, they're fine though! after all. you've gotta smile if you're on camera, right?

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Fun Facts! ---------- Den's favorite animals consist of; frogs, seals, crows, and bunnies, though top is frogs! Den has an irrational fear of many things; including failure, being put in the spotlight, cameras, and bugs.

Den has a patchy frog plush they made themselves for comfort, it's name is "Mr. Ribitz." Den loves the rain, and (almost) constantly wears rainboots. Den purposely wears baggy clothing (despite having low heat tolerance), to hide scars and bruises from the past.

Den's favorite color is green Den is ..."friends"...? with Melvin Sneedly

Den goes by any pronouns Den's favorite food is spaghetti Den is thirteen years old.

Note: Old art.

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//OOC HELLLO!

This is a blog you've run across ran by two siblings!!

said blog will contain self-inserts! ships and self-shipping! also lore :3

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Important things to note!; Hairold- text is yellow (orange due to the fact Tumblr has no yellow for some reason,) and tends to indluce spelling mistakes George- text is red and orange still has typos but less often

Krupp. - text is not colored but is more fancy

Cap- Text for Captain will be pink as it is the closest to red, and he likes the color. He speaks In all caps most of the time because he likes to shout (..i don't think he can stop..)

melvin- fancy text, green and orange text, almost always all lowercase. (*tends to sign of with his full name or just last.) ____________

Self inserts; DeN!- can often have typos but trys to NOT have any (aswell as use big words), uses green text

Gabs- Uses red text, and may have some grammatical errors because she isn't great with writing.

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[scriptflorist]

Hello!

Is there a florist tool that you could use to hit somebody? The things that look like scissors -dunno what is called in English- looks like they can be used for that, but maybe there's something better?

If not, then do florists do the gardening themselves? (I read they can grow their own flowers, but I'm not familiar with what that would entail.) Because I see gardening tools are more suitable for killing.

Sorry about my English! Thank you for your lovely blog. ❤

Hello to you too!

Don’t worry about the English, thank you for the lovely words!

You might be thinking of pruners, clippers or garden shears. Which is a typical tool florists keep within reach when they’re working on arrangements or tending to plants. A kenzan, which is typically used for ikebana arrangements could also be used by the character in your story, it is however not a common tool, which would make it relatively easy to identify who last handled it. There are not many other actual tools, unless your story counts pots and vases, and boxes of decoration or other equipment as such. Florists do however have a habit of carrying a knife with them, especially their pocket florist knife which they are quite attached to, so of course stabbing is always an option for a character.

Generally, the answer to your second question is no, florists don’t garden and floristries don’t grow their own flowers. Some do out of work because they enjoy it, but gardener is a different profession altogether. Florists are primarily in charge of making pretty things with flowers and the extent of their gardening knowledge is usually how to properly plant something, since planted arrangements are a thing, spot sick plants (knowledge may vary here depending on how much they actually have to deal with that on the job), and whatever else they pick while selling plants. But the big heavy gardening tools and vehicles are reserved for gardeners and gardeners only, and they are unlikely to be found in a floristry that’s not adjoined to a garden centre.

There is a thought that comes to mind, since this question is specifically about things to hit with, and would require some help of physics and a trap since watered box*) is unironically too heavy to lift for the average person, but there is also the possibility your character causes someone’s death by dropping a really heavy plant on them. Would definitely give points for creativity if I read that in a book.

*)Specifically the bigger ones that have about the bulk of an old boxy desktop monitor. Plant and pot combined easily are as long as two 1,5 l water bottles on top of each other. The lower half, and truly half, these things are 50% soil and pot, which when it is watered (and somehow these things always are) always feels like trying to carry something slightly above what you can handle. If your character manages to get that to fall on someone the least that should happen is a very nasty bruise, but depending on which body part is hit and it falls from a great enough height it could probably also murder.

If the character is wielding the object as a blunt object weapon, some of the vases and containers might have enough heft to cause damage or death with a well aimed blow. An aimed hit with speed behind it could injure even without the mass of the large pot plants which would be slower and more unwieldy to aim. (But their mass would reduce the need to do so.) It’s kind of getting into questions of physics at that point, but I think it would be believable to have your character either premeditate a murder or assault in which they wouldn’t be present at the time of injury by setting up a large plant container to fall on the victim, or to heat-of-moment murder/assault someone by swinging a thick bottomed vase at their skull.

You might also be interested in this ask we recently answered.

– Mod Jana

Disclaimer

This blog is intended as writing advice only. This blog and its mods are not responsible for accidents, injuries or other consequences of using this advice for real world situations or in any way that said advice was not intended.