Line Materials
These flowers are tall and long with blossoms along the stem.
What are line flowers?
These flowers have unique, interesting, or eye-catching shapes.
What are form flowers?
These flowers are usually round with one main flower head on a stem.
What are mass flowers?
These flowers are usually smaller with branching stems and tiny blooms.
What are filler flowers?
What are line flowers and foliage.
Line flowers are usually placed first because they create this for the arrangement.
What is the framework/skeleton?
Form flowers are often used to create emphasis, visual interest, and this.
What is focal point?
Mass flowers help add bulk, weight, and this to an arrangement.
What is fullness?
Filler flowers are often added at this point in the design process.
What is last?
These materials are used to create emphasis, interest, and focal points.
What are form flowers and foliage?
Line flowers help create height, width, depth, movement, and this.
What is the basic shape of the arrangement?
Name one example of a form flower.
What is an Orchid, Anthurium, Birds of Paradise, or Calla lily?
Name one example of a mass flower.
What is a Rose, Carnation, Chrysanthemum, or Tulip?
Name one example of a filler flower?
What is Baby's breath, Statice, Waxflower, Solidago, or Button mums?
These materials add bulk, weight, and fullness to support the design.
What are mass flowers and foliage?
Name one example of a line flower.
What is Gladiolus, Delphinium, Larkspur, Liatris, or Bells of Ireland?
Designers should avoid using too many form flowers because they already have strong __________.
What is visual impact/visual attention?
Mass foliage helps cover mechanics such as this.
What is floral foam?
Filler flowers should not crowd or distract from these flowers.
What are the main flowers?
These materials are added last to complete the design and fill empty spaces.
What are filler flowers and foliage?
Curved line foliage helps guide this through the arrangement.
What is the viewer's eye?
This technique means turning flowers so they face a certain direction.
What is directional facing?
To avoid monotony with mass flowers, designers should vary color, size, spacing, and this.
What is depth?
Ribbon loops, tiny pine cones, berry clusters, decorative wire, and jewels are examples of this.
What are filler accessories?
A tulip can belong to more than one group depending on placement, openness, size, color, texture, pattern, and this.
What is function?