1. Flower Types for Floral Design

2. Flower Types Flowers come in all shapes and sizes.
Flowers and floral products that are used in Floral Designs can be grouped into 4 groups.
Mass
Line
Form
Filler
Foliage
Each type of product has a special use and placement in a flower arrangement.

3. Mass Flowers
These are the main flowers used to make the shape (outline) of the floral design.
These flowers are usually round in shape and they can be placed to give the overall design type.
Examples:
Roses
Carnations
Chrysanthemums
Sunflowers

4. Line Flowers
Tall slender stems with smaller florets (little flower blooms) around the stem.
These help make the structure (or skeleton) of the design. They create lines for our eyes to follow.
Examples:
Snapdragons
Gladiolas
Delphinium
Dendrobium Orchids

5. Form Flowers Used for a focal point or special feature.
Usually unique with distinctive, interesting shapes that draw attention.
Usually use fewer in the design, because of cost and attention.
Examples include:
Lilies (oriental, asiatic, calla)
Orchids (phaleonopsis, cymbidium)
Irises (dutch)

6. Filler Flowers Groups of small or tiny flowers.
Used to fill up gaps in a design.
These are accents, not to draw attention from the other flowers.
Includes “spray” stems of flowers:
such as mini-carnations, mini-roses, or mums
these have multiple blooms per stem
Examples:
Baby’s Breath
Statice
Solid Aster
Waxflower

7. Foliages
Foliages are the greenery used to cover mechanics and add a natural effect to the overall design.
Some specialty greens can also be used as focal points or add special interest to a design.
Usually we use greens to cover foam or start a vase design.
Examples include:
Leather Leaf
Comedor
Salal (lemon leaf)
Lily or Bear Grass
Myrtle

9. Flower Placement on Stem
Solitary
These flowers have only 1 bloom on the end of the stem
Roses, Tulips
Spray
Multiple Flowers per stem
Mini Carnations or Mini Roses
Inflorescence
These flowers look like 1 large flower head, but are actually lots of smaller blooms arranged in a cluster
Hydrangea, Agapanthus
Spike
Like a Line Flower, it has a longer stem with smaller blooms on it
Snapdragons, Liatrus