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Gladiolus, which has long been considered a male flower and personified friendship and fidelity, nobility and dignity, is an excellent material for creating compositions that do not have a gender or attachment to certain special occasions. A variety of varieties and colors allows you to create the most incredible bouquet of gladioli for any occasion.

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Baskets, round wedding bouquets, horizontal and vertical compositions, simple and complex - there is a place and a reason for the skewers everywhere. But like any noble flower, it is capricious and demanding on certain conditions.

Proper cutting or buying flower stalks is the key to success.

Collect gladioli in the garden should be in cool and cloudy weather or before 11 am and after 6 pm if the day is sunny and hot.
Cut, or rather, cut and break off only the peduncle without foliage.
Before placing in a vase for temporary storage, the stem must be cut with a sharp knife.
Only those peduncles are suitable for making bouquets, the lower flower of which is fully opened, and the rest are still in buds.

Large-flowered varieties look good in floor compositions without any additions, but you can use other plants that are popular with gardeners today to create a festive composition:

hydrangea green small-colored;
hydrangea blue large-flowered;
feverweed;
several large ones;
large green brunia;
fern leaves;
Eucalyptus Gann;
eustoma.

You will get a universal beautiful bouquet of gladioli with your own hands in white-blue-green tones, appropriate for any occasion.

Not tinny but durable

An important quality of a floristic object is beauty. But beauty is nothing without endurance.

You can make a skewer behave well in a vase for a long time if you change its water every day, with a “cocktail” of several citric acid crystals dissolved in it and with half a teaspoon of sugar (based on 1 liter of water).

They also love bouquets of gladiolus solution:

activated charcoal (1 tablet),
acetylsalicylic acid (1 tablet),
salt (1 tsp),
boric acid (1 tsp),
vinegar (3%, 1 tablespoon),
ammonia (2-3 drops),
potassium permanganate (0.5 g).

Water, by the way, should be boiled at room temperature. Every day you need to trim the peduncles and remove the fading flowers.

It is undesirable to use gladiolus leaves in bouquets - they accelerate the processes of decay - it is better to replace them with other spiky plants - calamus, cattail, aspidistra, bergrass, palm leaves.

These rules apply to classic combinations. But what if the task is to collect a round bouquet of gladiolus flowers, glamelia or a composition with piaflora at the base?

flower of flowers

Glamelia is a complex technique that appeared in the 19th century, which involved the creation of a huge man-made flower from gladiolus and camellia petals. Later, such designs began to be created from petals of various colors, but the single name for the form remained the same.

The floristic direction, of which glamelia is a part, is transformation (in the process of work, the floristic object is modified beyond recognition). This is the bouquet of gladioli, the photo of which should be taken immediately. It is for the sake of beautiful photographs that glamelias are most often created.

For this type of bouquet, it is best to use flowers that have already blossomed, which must first be soaked in water for a day and fed with a nutrient for cut plants (Krizal, etc.).

There are two ways to create glamelias:

traditional;
modern.

Principle number 1 - assembly of glamelia on wire studs.

A barely blossoming bud is pierced with a thin wire, the ends of which are twisted into a stem.
Petals of disassembled 25 flowers are sorted by size - the best and largest are selected for work.
To prevent the petals from wilting during work, they are laid out between sheets of white wet paper.
All petals are mounted on studs.
The bud is covered with petals, and the wire pins are twisted around the base of the bud.

The second method of creating a glamelia involves the use of Oasis floral glue for fresh flowers and a foam base around which a new flower is formed.

To simplify the process of work, a ring of decorative wire is stuck into a foam ball with a diameter of 8 or 10 cm (it will later serve as the stem of the bouquet), the tail of which is smeared with glue (any quick-drying one will do).
The opposite side of the ball is slightly cut off and a hole for the perianth is made in it with a wooden skewer.
The bud (on the cut) is treated with floral glue and glued into the hole.
The sections of all the petals are alternately smeared with floral glue and glued with scales around the bud.
For ease of use, the glamelia blank can be placed on an impromptu pedestal - in a tall glass or vase.
When the glamelia is ready, the non-decorative part is decorated with a cuff.

The main features of glamelia are grace, unusualness, laboriousness of the process and fragility - without a flower, a petal lives for a few hours.

Balls and cascades

You can make a round wedding bouquet of gladioli without resorting to decomposing each bud into its components. These compositions also look very solemn and unusual.

You can make a balloon bouquet:

in a porta bouquet;
in the technique of "taping";
mixed bouquet with cascading elements.

A combined flower arrangement can be based on piaflor (it is also an oasis, floral foam or sponge) or completely attached to wire stems.

If the flowers are attached by taping, then you need to attach and fix a cotton swab dipped in vinegar or any other solution your favorite plant to the cut on the bud head.

The round base of large gladiolus flowers can be supplemented with pointed inflorescences of small-colored undersized varieties, steelgrass or gypsophila. Their stems are also wrapped with wire and teip tape for greater strength, flexibility and decorativeness and stuck into the foam (additionally fixing it on the ribs of the port bouquet) or assembled into a teip-bouquet with a parallel assembly principle.

Constructions from individual buds, alas, have a short lifespan - no more than a day, but a classic arrangement with stems can stand in a vase from two weeks to a month, if comfortable conditions and a worthy company are created for the capricious protagonist.

The holidays flew by like a colorful dream. September 1 is approaching - the day when schoolchildren will bring flowers to their teachers. Bouquets of asters, dahlias, zinnias and the most school flowers in the world - gladioli - will stand out against the general background of Dutch roses and give your child's teacher real emotions smelling of the sun and the garden. From garden flowers you can make such beauty - where is the salon! In this review, we will tell you how to make an impressive and memorable bouquet from ordinary country flowers.

What should be a school bouquet

♦ autumn. This can be achieved with the help of color (by the way, autumn yellow-orange colors are also the colors of gratitude, and in a bouquet intended for a teacher, this is doubly appropriate). The autumn "sound" of the bouquet can be given by rowan twigs or decorative cereals.

♦ durable- let the flowers given by your child please the teacher for as long as possible. Asters and garden chrysanthemums do not wither the longest of cut country flowers: a bouquet of them can stand up to two weeks. Bouquets of zinnias and gladiolus live a little less, things are worse with roses - it’s good if they last five days, and shrub roses last even less. Lilies could top the list of long-lived cut flowers, but they are definitely not suitable for a school bouquet due to their strong smell and soiling pollen.

♦ pertinent. It is wrong to give a “girlish” bouquet of pastel roses to a strict male teacher - restrained plain flowers with dark greens are suitable here. A good choice is gladioli or chrysanthemums, and the older the teacher, the more solid the bouquet should be. But a young teacher can be presented with a delicate bouquet in pastel colors. An authoritative, experienced teacher can be presented with large, double, solemn flowers. A boy can go to the ruler with a simple bouquet of one gerbera and greenery. Gerbera, by the way, can be replaced with a sunflower. A girl with such a delicate bouquet.

♦ beautiful. Many country plants have an amazing property: they may not make a big impression in a flower bed, but they look just fine in a bouquet! So, stonecrop, which grows in every second garden plot, next to asters or zinnias, can become the basis of a good flower arrangement.

What flowers to choose for a bouquet?

Many parents of schoolchildren plant flowers so that they bloom just in time for September 1st. The basic country flowers for a school bouquet are:

♦ Gladiolus. True, these strict flowers can throw out their favorite trick and bloom in August. Dutch varieties from packages "do not hold out" before the start of the school year. Therefore, for the first September bouquet, many summer residents in mid-May plant old Russian varieties.

For bouquets, gladioli are cut as soon as the first 3 flowers open. In order for the bouquet to live longer, you need to pinch off the lowest bud and pierce the lower part of the stem with a toothpick or needle in different places.

♦dahlias. For a bouquet, varieties with strong, dense petals are chosen that will not wrinkle and endure the school line without compromising their appearance. Plants are cut only when the flower is fully bloomed. Remove the petals from the part of the stem that will stand in the water, and the bouquet will live for a really long time. If you want to put dahlias in the same bouquet with other flowers, be careful. This is an aggressive flower, from the neighborhood with which others simply wither. But dahlias can be made friendlier by burning their stems a little.

♦ roses second wave of flowering. These whimsical beauties must be kept in settled water (water should be changed every day). You can extend the life of cut roses by singeing the stem with it and tearing off not only the leaves, but also the thorns. Freshly cut roses cannot stand the neighborhood in the same bouquet with other flowers and quickly wither - to correct this circumstance, they need to be held separately in water for several hours. By September 1, Ann Henderson, Pastella, Anny Duperey will bloom. An original, eye-catching bouquet is obtained from Paso Doble roses. They bloom stably at the beginning of the school year and stand for a relatively long time in The Fairy bouquet. Augusta Luise blooms until frost, for which it is especially loved by parents of schoolchildren.

♦ Garden chrysanthemums. An excellent choice for a school bouquet: it is these flowers that look fresh, cheerful, and somehow life-affirming in autumn. The main thing to remember is that you cannot cut chrysanthemums for a bouquet. Chrysanthemums for a bouquet are broken, and it is better to do this in the evening or in the morning. Flowers should open fully or almost completely. They will last even longer in a bouquet if you throw a silver spoon or decoration into a vase of water. Chrysanthemums are combined with asparagus (especially large, cold flowers), thuja branches (especially yellow, medium-sized) and fern branches (small-colored). In the latter case, the bouquet should be low.

♦ asters. Along with beautiful, large-flowered varieties, small-flowered perennials can also be used - they will become an addition to a mixed bouquet. To make the bouquet of asters stand even longer, you should remove almost all the leaves from the stems, except for the top ones, and change the water as often as possible. If you add a little alcohol to the water (a teaspoon per liter of water), the bouquet will break all records for longevity.

♦ Gerberas - festive, elegant and at the same time quite formal flowers. According to etiquette, they can be given to both men and women, and for a gift to a male teacher, it is better to choose a bouquet of five flowers of burgundy and orange hues. Rose, chrysanthemum and aster are wonderfully combined with gerberas. Florists especially like to pair gerberas with roses. Five gerbera flowers, a few medium-sized roses, lush greenery - a magnificent bouquet is ready. You can make a bouquet of gerberas alone, for example, make light flowers the center of the composition, and dark ones along the edges.

The bouquet will last longer if you cut the tips of the flowers by about a centimeter daily under running water. There should not be so much water in the vase: because of the small hairs that cover the stems of the gerbera, they are quickly covered with mucus.

♦ sunflowers. For a school bouquet, the teddy bear variety is especially suitable. These sincere and cute "teddy bears" bloom in mid-August and bloom until the very frosts, teachers invariably like it and, oddly enough, often win against the background of prim roses from the flower shop. Good as just sunflower bouquets, and mixes with them. Sunflowers are combined with gladioli of lilac and purple shades, look good next to dahlias. The bouquet is complemented by rare sprigs of greenery.

♦ Zinnias: there are tall and large varieties that look like double gerberas. They look especially impressive in the bouquet of the first of September: smooth stems, elegant flowers. They are combined with light, openwork plants, for example, with asparagus. For a bouquet, zinnias are cut, the inflorescences of which have opened by ¾, and then they do not lose their natural colors for a long time and remain fresh.

♦ Marigold. Large varieties of these unpretentious flowers - 10-12 centimeters in diameter - are especially suitable for a school bouquet. Their orange-yellow-red color scheme, autumn smell with fruity notes fully correspond to the mood of the first day of the school year. The bouquet includes strong flowers with fully opened inflorescences, but a dense core. The bouquet will last longer if you cut the stems to the height of the vase and remove the basal leaves.

♦ Snapdragon. These joyful, bright flowers of an unusual shape always cheer up the one who receives them as a gift. They go well with many other country flowers: with the same spray roses, chrysanthemums, asters ... Such a bouquet can be stored in a vase for up to two weeks.

♦ Tall eustoma. These chic exotic flowers can make a splash in the school yard. Eustoma flowers are popular among FORUMHOUSE flower growers. But among less advanced gardeners, this is a rather rare plant: you won’t immediately understand what kind of beauty it is, where it comes from. There is hardly a teacher who will remain indifferent to such a bouquet, but it would be more appropriate to give it to a young teacher.

Eustoma long enough to retain freshness in the cut. While they are in a vase, some flowers dry up on the stem, others bloom - beauty!

Alice@ FORUMHOUSE user

I put them in bouquets on September 1 (in fact, I sowed them for this), I was tortured to tell everyone what kind of animal it was.

These plants can play the “second violin” in school bouquets perfectly:

Jerusalem artichoke. You can make a bouquet of fiery red dahlias and yellow, similar to strange daisies, Jerusalem artichokes.
Aspagarus - asparagus for a bouquet.
Panicled hydrangeas.
Decorative stonecrops.
Decorative cereals.
Vesicle.
Rudbeckia. They look great in a bouquet with any blue flowers and perfectly complement zinnias.

How to make a bouquet

The best bouquets are obtained from flowers of different types, but you do not need to collect everything that grows in your garden in one such mix. Two or three varieties of flowers will be enough, it is important that they are combined in color, mood (whatever you say, you can’t put a rose in one bouquet with daisies), flower size and texture.

Make sure that the plants in the bouquet are of different heights. Here is the formula that professional florists use when composing bouquets:

tallest flower - ¼ of its height = medium flower;
medium flower - ¼ of its height = shortest flower.

If you use this formula, all the flowers in the bouquet will be visible.

The color scheme of the bouquet for September 1 can be contrasting, for example, yellow-blue or yellow-purple; monochrome - when colors of the same color, but of different saturation, are collected in a bouquet; identical (for example, yellow-orange).

Any flower of any color can be in the center of such a bouquet, the main thing is that it should be noticeable so that it stands out in the composition. It can be the largest gladiolus or sunflower, or the largest and brightest aster. The remaining plants, smaller and less bright, gather around in a spiral, while the stems can be fixed with tape. And by the way, have you noticed that bouquets containing flowers of varying degrees of openness - from buds to fully bloomed flowers - look especially attractive? Use this technique in your student's bouquet.

The stems of the finished bouquet are evenly trimmed with secateurs and tied with a matching color satin ribbon, lace or decorative cord (the choice depends on the style of the bouquet). To prevent the tape from slipping, secure it with decorative needles. Beautiful ribbon and, if necessary, wrapping paper, will give a bouquet of simple flowers a designer look.

Do not be afraid to decorate the bouquet with greenery: a couple of branches, and it will sparkle with all its colors. And decorative cereals: the main thing here is that the cereals in the bouquet are higher than the flowers, but do not obscure them.

If you want to present a teacher with a floral arrangement that will stand on your desktop for a long time, this is not as difficult as it seems.

♦ We decorate the jar or glass in which it will stand with wrapping paper.

♦ We cut out a blank of suitable size from green floral foam (oasis) and saturate it with water. There is one subtlety: the oasis must float freely in a container of water until it drowns itself - only then will it be completely saturated and be able to keep the composition blooming.

♦ Let's start compiling the composition. Florists say that when arranging flowers and greenery in a floristic oasis, the main thing is to maintain a given shape: a ball, a trapezoid, etc. All flowers parallel to each other should be on the same level.

The composition can be decorated with school supplies: bright, sharpened pencils, paint boxes, a tiny decorative globe, etc. And you can use bright autumn leaves, bunches of mountain ash or viburnum, fruits - from apples to corn ... It is important not to overdo it: greens and decorations should not draw attention to themselves, the main thing is flowers.

Home Floriculture The correct cut of gladioli for a bouquet

The correct cut of gladioli for a bouquet

Beautiful gladiolus flowers - the perfect culture for a bouquet precisely because of the variety of colors and the gradual long blooming of many peduncles.

With proper cutting Gladiolus will last up to two weeks in a vase and will look great when the bottom wilted flowers are removed.

To cut gladioli did not negatively affect the formation of corms and children, at least 4 leaves should be left on the plant. To fulfill this condition and get a tall stem, you need to pierce the peduncle with a sharp garden knife, break it and pull it out, slightly swaying from side to side. The leaves remain intact.

Bouquets of gladiolus alone are magnificent, but you need to be careful when using them in a composition along with other colors. For example, dahlias, Godetia, Clarkia can be added in small quantities, otherwise the beauty of gladioli will not be so bright.

Best paired with gladiolus plant leaves, especially contrasting ones, are gypsophila, ivy, asparagus, young maple, barberry, cherry plum.

In a bouquet designed for a large vase, you can add whole branches of maple or viburnum with fruits. When composing large bouquets, we must remember that a lot of large flowers bloom on long peduncles, and they become heavier.

So that the stems do not bend or break, they must be well strengthened. To do this, heavy disks with spikes are lowered into the vases, on which the stems are pricked.

When can you cut gladiolus. Cut off gladiolus when the lower flower opens or 3 lower buds are painted. Place in a vase filled to the brim with water. Then the stems absorb it in large quantities, the petals become more elastic and last longer.

In what water to put gladioli after cutting. For opening the buds, the most favorable water temperature is from 20 to 25 degrees.

Water needs to be changed daily cutting off the ends of the stems. With this content, the flowers fade more slowly, the buds open more actively, the inflorescences bloom to the very top.

Adding aspirin, charcoal to water prolongs the life of flowers. If the blooming gladioli need to be preserved longer, they are wrapped in a newspaper and transferred to a room with a temperature of 7-10 degrees.

N. Ya. Ippolitova, candidate of agricultural sciences

Baskets, round wedding bouquets, horizontal and vertical arrangements, simple and complex mdash; there is a place and a reason for the skewer everywhere. But like any noble flower, it is capricious and demanding on certain conditions.

Proper cutting or buying mdash flower stalks; the key to success.

Collect gladioli in the garden should be in cool and cloudy weather or before 11 am and after 6 pm if the day is sunny and hot.
Cut, or rather, cut and break off only the peduncle without foliage.
Before placing in a vase for temporary storage, the stem must be cut with a sharp knife.
Only those peduncles are suitable for making bouquets, the lower flower of which is fully opened, and the rest are still in buds.

Large-flowered varieties look good in floor compositions without any additions, but you can use other plants that are popular with gardeners today to create a festive composition:

hydrangea green small-colored;
hydrangea blue large-flowered;
feverweed;
several large roses;
large green brunia;
fern leaves;
Eucalyptus Gann;
eustoma.

You will get a universal beautiful bouquet of gladioli with your own hands in white-blue-green tones, appropriate for any occasion.

An important quality of the mdash floral object; beauty. But the beauty of mdash; nothing without perseverance.

They also love bouquets of gladiolus solution:

activated charcoal (1 tablet),
acetylsalicylic acid (1 tablet),
salt (1 tsp),
boric acid (1 tsp),
vinegar (3%, 1 tablespoon),
ammonia (2-3 drops),
potassium permanganate (0.5 g).

Water, by the way, should be boiled at room temperature. Every day you need to trim the peduncles and remove the fading flowers.

Gladiolus leaves are undesirable to use in mdash bouquets; they speed up the decay processes of mdash; it is better to replace them with other mdash spiky plants; calamus marsh, cattail, aspidistra, bergrass, palm leaves.

These rules apply to classic combinations. But what if the task is to collect a round bouquet of gladiolus flowers, glamelia or a composition with piaflora at the base?

Glamelia mdash; a complex technique that appeared in the 19th century, which involved the creation of a huge man-made flower from gladiolus and camellia petals. Later, such designs began to be created from petals of various colors, but the single name for the form remained the same.

Floral direction, of which glamelia is a part, mdash; transformation (in the process of work, the floristic object is modified beyond recognition). This is the bouquet of gladioli, the photo of which should be taken immediately. It is for the sake of beautiful photographs that glamelias are most often created.

For this type of bouquet, it is best to use flowers that have already blossomed, which must first be soaked in water for a day and fed with a nutrient for cut plants (Krizal, etc.).

There are two ways to create glamelias:

Principle #1 mdash; assembly of glamelia on wire studs.

A barely blossoming bud is pierced with a thin wire, the ends of which are twisted into a stem.
The petals of the disassembled 25 flowers are sorted by mdash size; the best and largest are selected for work.
To prevent the petals from wilting during work, they are laid out between sheets of white wet paper.
All petals are mounted on studs.
The bud is covered with petals, and the wire pins are twisted around the base of the bud.

The second method of creating a glamelia involves the use of Oasis floral glue for fresh flowers and a foam base around which a new flower is formed.

To simplify the process of work, a ring of decorative wire is stuck into a foam ball with a diameter of 8 or 10 cm (it will later serve as the stem of the bouquet), the tail of which is smeared with glue (any quick-drying one will do).
The opposite side of the ball is slightly cut off and a hole for the perianth is made in it with a wooden skewer.
The bud (on the cut) is treated with floral glue and glued into the hole.
The sections of all the petals are alternately smeared with floral glue and glued with scales around the bud.
For ease of use, the glamelia blank can be placed on an impromptu mdash pedestal; in a tall glass or vase.
When the glamelia is ready, the non-decorative part is decorated with a cuff.

The main features of glamelia are: grace, unusualness, the complexity of the process and the fragility of mdash; without a flower, a petal lives for a few hours.

You can make a round wedding bouquet of gladioli without resorting to decomposing each bud into its components. These compositions also look very solemn and unusual.

You can make a balloon bouquet:

in a porta bouquet;
in the technique of "taping";
mixed bouquet with cascading elements.

A combined flower arrangement can be based on piaflor (aka mdash; oasis, floral foam or sponge) or completely attached to wire stems.

If the flowers are attached by taping, then you need to attach and fix a cotton swab dipped in vinegar or any other solution your favorite plant to the cut on the bud head.

The round base of large gladiolus flowers can be supplemented with pointed inflorescences of small-colored undersized varieties, steelgrass or gypsophila. Their stems are also wrapped with wire and teip tape for greater strength, flexibility and decorativeness and stuck into the foam (additionally fixing it on the ribs of the port bouquet) or assembled into a teip-bouquet with a parallel assembly principle.

Constructions from individual buds, alas, have a short life span mdash; no more than a day, but a classic composition with stems can stand in a vase from two weeks to a month, if the capricious main character is provided with comfortable conditions and a worthy company.

Since childhood, many people have associated the word "holiday" with colorful balloons. The trend of recent years in decorating events with this material is multi-component complex sculptures and compositions.

The atmosphere of the holiday begins when dad takes out a Christmas tree and a box of toys from the pantry, and mom calls the kids to dress up the main decoration of the house. At this point, family traditions are born. One of them is do-it-yourself Christmas tree crafts.

The usual bouquet is known to everyone since childhood - a certain number of flowering and ornamental plants, collected in a bunch and tied with a ribbon. Unusual bouquets - everything else, for which there is enough imagination.

Master class: "Handsome noble - gladiolus"

Crepe paper gladioli. DIY autumn flowers

Purpose: Such flowers can become a decoration of the interior of a kindergarten, a natural corner, or you can use Sweet - design and make a sprig of gladiolus with sweets in the middle.

Dear friends and colleagues, today we will make a bouquet of beautiful gladioli. In the end, we will get such a wonderful bouquet

It is difficult to find beautiful poems about this flower, usually everyone has roses, cornflowers or forget-me-nots on their lips, but I rummaged through the bowels of the Internet and found beautiful poems, the author is unknown.

Sticking a flower-bearing ear into the sky,

Blooms at the junction of summer and autumn

Handsome noble - gladiolus,

As if singing an autumn song.

In bloom, he is - well, exactly, the emperor:

With a proud posture looking around at everyone,

He enters autumn like a triumphant,

To the feast of the last royal comforts.

At the same time, he is a flower for contemplation:

The whole peduncle is like a long life path.

He is in change of denial of denial

We visibly wisdom reveals the essence.