Floral Design

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This group is for members who are interested in creating floral designs. We have a demonstration, create and appreciate. We also attend and sometimes participate in flower shows, exhibitions, seminars and symposiums.

Participation

All levels are welcomed! No experience is needed. We start with a presentation on what we will be doing. Then you make. We help each other. At the end we appreciate each other's work. Finally, you bring home your own design. Each month we do something different.

Meeting times

In January 2025 we are meeting on the 4th Thursday of the month.

We meet at the leader's home on the 3rd Thursday of the month from 7 PM to 9 PM unless otherwise specified. We do not meet in June through August nor in December.
Design members are willing to drive others who do not wish to drive at night. Please contact the leader before the meeting so a carpool can be arranged.

For more information and to be added to the group's mailing list, send email the Floral Design Chairman.

Meeting is cancelled on Tuesday night if 3 or more people do not sign up.

Our designs will follow the Handbook for Flower Shows 2017 updated August 2024, using the Elements of Design and the Principles of Design.

Thursday January 23 at 7-9 PM
Winter Designs and new techniques

Note: This is the 4th Thursday of the month.
Lynn will demonstrate a winter design and techniques she learned at Creative Floral Arts of America seminar in Tampa, Florida the previous week.
You create an arrangement and then we will all appreciate our creations.

Please bring

  1. Container - easier to create if not clear clear glass. Lynn has a basic black set (square and rectangle) for $20.
  2. Mechanics - how to hold the plant material. Kenzan/pin frog; wire mesh; floral foam; branches fitted against the sides, etc.
  3. Line material - branches or leaves - think firs, pines, barren branches for winter
  4. Flowers and/or berries - winter colors in different shapes (round, elongated) and textures.

Do not bring artificial flowers or other plant material. Artificial material is never used by National Garden Club.

After we create an arrangement to bring home, we appreciate each other's work based on the elements and principles of design. Words of Appreciation

December "Holiday Designs"

Holiday 1 Holiday 2 Holiday 3 Holiday 4 front Holiday 4 back

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Resources

The National Handbook describes both Creative and Traditional styles. These are not design types, but how you present your plant material. Creative designs use contrast and dominance with plant material and voids to create rhythm (positive and negative space or "plastic organization".) We are going to concentrate on the two elements of design (size and space) and particularly appreciate contrast, dominance and rhythm. All elements of design and all principles of design should be followed. Look at art and apply the principles to your creative designs.

Ikebana has many schools of floral design. For more information see Ikebana International San Francisco . They meet on the 3rd Friday during the day.