TUTORIAL: FORAGED GREENS ARRANGEMENT

Foraged Greens With Lilies, Mondial Roses, Lisianthus, Queen Anne's Lace, and Grevillea

It’s flower time, and this week's Botany Bundle has a sweet mix of white and green summer flowers, fillers and foliage. We're going to style these stems loosely with a couple stems of foraged red dogwood branches into a relaxed arrangement!

Flower Profiles

Oriental Lilies
This is a super flower with amazing longevity; each bloom opening one by one up the stem. It has strong symbolism of beauty, innocence and decadence in the language of flowers.

Mondial Roses
This rose is a creamy white flower that is one of the most popular wedding roses, and for good reason! Gorgeous and crisp, this rose symbolizes purity and represents new beginnings.

Lisianthus
This fluffy flower's name originates from the Greek word 'Eustoma' meaning something beautiful and mouth. Lisianthus on the other hand comes from the Greek words 'lysis', which translates as 'dissolution', and 'anthos', meaning flower. Their curling buds give this flower so much personality.

Queen Anne's Lace
This dainty filler flower is an uncultivated form of the wild carrot, with broad round heads of tiny white flowers that resemble lace. What's behind its name? It is said that while Queen Anne was making lace by hand, she pricked her finger and out came a single drop of blood. The drop fell on the lace resembling the dark centre you'll often find at the centre of wild Queen Anne's lace.

Grevillea
This spiny-shaped foliage is a popular garden plant, especially in Australia. Straight, woody and sculptural – let them lean loose or tall for a more wild look. These also look super stylish dried.

Red Dogwood Branches
Crazy good greenery. Native to North America, in the wild it commonly grows in areas of damp soil, such as wetlands. It can be used in floral arranging throughout the seasons - in early Spring for it's blossoms and into winter for its bare red branches. We are using them in the height of summer, full of greenish-white berries. Use its natural shape to your advantage and let your stems lean out of your vase.

Here’s what you’ll need:

2x stems of Mondial roses
1x stem Oriental lily
1-2x stems of lisianthus
3-4x stems of grevillea
1x stem of Queen Anne's lace
2x foraged branches
clean glass vase
sharp scissors or flower shears

Instructions

 Forage a couple stems, cutting with clean shears above the plant's bract.

 Fill the clean vase with water. Cut and insert the foraged branch on a angle. 

Make sure there are no leaves touching or emerged under water.

 Repeat this step on the other side. A branch is angled and resting on both left and right sides of the vase. We're making a criss-cross pattern with the greens to hold the flowers once we put them in place.

  

Repeat these last steps with the stems of Grevillea; ensuring that these stems are left slightly longer. Place them at different angles from the foraged greens. Let every stem of greenery have it's own space. I've put two stems of Grevillea angling out on either left and right sides of my vase.

Trim the Oriental lily stem and insert at the centre of your arrangement. The lily blooms will gradually open and fill up this arrangement nicely.

 Trim your Mondial roses at slightly different heights. The first stem short enough to rest at the base of your arrangement; resting on the lip of the vase. Trim the second stem slightly taller and place it behind the first rose. We are stepping our flowers.

Trim and insert the lisianthus stems into empty spots throughout the arrangement. Notice the nature of the curling buds and allow them to curve naturally from the vase.

Lastly, trim your stems of Queen Anne's lace at varying heights - keeping these stems taller. Insert at various angles. This gives your arrangement movement and an ethereal feel.

Tip: Make sure all ends of the flower and foliage stems are submerged and keep your vase topped up with fresh water.

You're done - Enjoy!