Flower General Almanac Valentine's 2018

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ALMANAC valentine's 2018

. volume 4

Lilies and cover tulips from The Sun Valley Group

Inspiration We've listened to your requests for more recipes, so here they are just in time for Valentine's Day. We strove to find ideas at all price points and styles, so whether you need a solution for a lady love, a best friend, a handsome husband, or a sweet young girl, we've got it!

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Fl o w e r Re cipe Ingredients: 3 - white kale from The Sun Valley Group

5 - bells of ireland from Joseph & Sons

6 - Jade roses from Golden Flowers

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Bright Box

4 - green cremons from Golden Flowers

4 - white & green parrot tulips from The Sun Valley Group

6 - snowflake spray roses from Golden Flowers

3 - green mini carnations from Golden Flowers

5 - sprigs of plumosa from Hopkins Quality Foliage, Inc.

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Cut presoaked floral foam to fit your box. Gently curl back the leaves of the kale to make them "bloom" and remove any extra

or broken leaves. Insert the kale down the center of the foam at varying heights, and the bells at the ends, with one side higher than the other.

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Fill in the gaps and holes with spray roses and cremons.

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Drip the tulips out the front corners of the arrangement. Then cluster the roses in trios at the front and back.

Add the mini carnations. Finish off with wispy tufts of plumosa to make the finished arrangement more airy.

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Cottage Charm

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Recipe Ingredients on page 30

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your hydrangeas to get even

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coverage with some holes to fill

add visual interest.

Line the wooden container with foil or cellophane, then

cut soaked floral foam to fit. Insert

Place stock and leather leaf in the holes around

the hydrangea. Be sure some point up and some point down to

with the other elements.

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Insert spray roses, some may need to be broken in

to smaller clumps.

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Fill remaining holes with solidago. Finish off

with sprigs of matricaria white daisy aster to dance over the arrangement.

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peel back the leaves of kale to

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get a bigger bloom and remove

kale, fill voids with variegated

imperfect leaves.

pittosporum.

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Start with floral foam soaked in water and floral food and

cut to fit in you vessel. Gently

Use the foxtail ferns to accentuate the

asymmetrical shape, a few high ones at the back, a couple low ones at the front.

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Loop the ti leaves and stab the stem through the leaf

a couple inches from the top. Put them at the front and back of the

Finish with cocculus, kalanchoe and a few

whimsical pieces of bupleurum to finish it off.

fun with foliage

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spring blooms

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This can easily be made in a rose bowl vase as well. Prep

with floral food and water. Add hydrangea.

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Put the iris opposite the hydrangea, you may find

it helpful to thread a couple stems through the hydrangea to help hold them in place.

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Add your godetia.

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Add your tulips, and a few sprigs of bupleurum to

dance around the arrangement.

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Fl o w e r Re c ipe Ingredients: 2 - stems of sprengeri from Hopkins Quality Foliage, Inc.

4 - heirloom hydrangea from The Sun Valley Group

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purple hues

7 - purple stock from Joseph & Sons

3 - purple tornado cremons from Golden Flowers

4 - stems of peach mini carnations from Golden Flowers

6" rose bowl

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Prep your vase with water and flower food. Use the clear floral tape to make a grid on the top of the vase. Add the sprengeri

out the sides of the bowl. Be careful, with rose bowls, it's easy to arrange with the stems just missing the water level.

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Use the stock to accentuate the long shape and shorter stems to fill in the holes around the hydrangea.

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Add your hydrangeas in different directions. This can easily be done with them all the same color, but the different hues

add an element of visual interest.

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The cremons should help fill in the middle, and the mini carnations can dance around the arrangement by keeping the

stems slightly longer than the rest of the composition. Be sure to utilize some of the longer branches of mini carnations as well.

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Prep your container with presoaked floral foam cut to

fit. Use waterproof tape over the top of the foam for an extra secure

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Add spray roses and godetia. You may need

to break up some of the larger clumps of spray roses.

fit. Green it out.

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Next, arrange the mini carnations throughout the

arrangement. Follow that with the alstroemeria.

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Fill in holes with stock and make sure a couple stems

accentuate the shape of the composition.

Recipe pink flower pedestal

Recipe Ingredients on page 30

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Classic & elegant

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Prep your vase with water and flower food. Use the clear

floral tape to make a grid on the top of the vase. Remove all but

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Fill in with white stock and spray roses.

the upper leaves and add your hydrangea.

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the last little gesture of height to

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the side of the arrangement.

overall look.

Continue to fill in with the other white elements. Save

the white veronica for last to add

Last, little sprigs of matricaria white button

aster and bupleurum add movement and enhance the

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A Cheery Pair

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Recipe Ingredients on page 30 & 31

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top of the vase. Add sprengeri.

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Prep your vase with water and flower food. Use the clear

floral tape to make a grid on the

Prep your vase with water and flower food. Use the clear

floral tape to make a grid on the top of the vase. Add sprengeri, foxtail fern and hydrangea.

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Remove all but the upper leaves of the hydrangea.

Place them and the foxtail ferns.

Pop in yellow cremons.

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Fill the holes with mini carnations, spray roses and

alstroemeria.

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Fill in with solidago and button pompons.

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Add solidago for contrast and finish with matricaria

white daisy aster for texture.

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Finish with kalanchoe for a fun contrast.

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girly glam

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Prep your vase with water and flower food. If you like, use

the clear floral tape to make a grid on the top of the vase. This can

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Use the cremon and pompons to give a nice

base of white. Add a stem of godetia.

help everything stay in place for delivery.

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Pull the branches off of a stem of matsumoto aster

and scatter the blossoms around the arrangement.

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Accent with sprigs of tree fern. Finally add a little

sparkle with glittered flowers, rhinestones, or something fun.

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the top of the vase. Add green

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pittosporum, and make sure none

leaves. Be very careful removing

of the leaves are underwater.

the ones just below the blooms.

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Prep your vase with water and flower food. Use the

clear floral tape to make a grid on

Add the carnations and spray roses. Try to have

them at different stages of opening so the bouquet can be enjoyed for longer.

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Add a bunch of red alstroemeria. Remove all

of the leaves to put the focus more on the flower and less on the

Finish with cremons to fill the last of the holes,

and kalanchoe sprigs for a fun alternative to baby's breath.

flower Recipe modern red

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cottage charm

pink pedestal

p a ge 8

p a ge 18

Ingredients:

Ingredients:

3 - blue hydrangea 2 - leather leaf 7 - yellow stock 3 - Suncity spray roses 1 - yellow button pompon 9 - solidago 3 - matricaria white daisy aster

2 - umbrella palm 6 - Israeli ruscus 5 - Queenberry roses 4 - hot pink godetia 4 - Spectro mini carnations 7 - Plantina alstroemeria 6 - pink stock

classic & elegant fun with foliage p a ge 10

Ingredients: 3 - white kale 4 - variegated pittosporum 3 - green ti leaves 6 - foxtail fern 4 - cocculus 3 - white kalanchoe 1 or 2 - bupleurum

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Ingredients: 4 - white hydrangea 1 - white cushion pompon 5 - white godetia 4 - white stock 4 - Snow Flake spray roses 2 - matricaria white button aster 2 - bupleurum 3 - white veronica

A cheery pair spring blooms p a ge 12

Ingredients: 1 - blue hydrangea 3 - iris 3 - coral godetia 2 - pale pink tulips 1 - bupleurum

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p a ge 22

Ingredients for pink: 2 - sprengeri 4 - white hydrangea 3 - foxtail fern 10 - Bizet carnations 7 - Pink Flash spray roses 6 - Nemo alstroemeria 6 - solidago 2 - matricaria white daisy aster

A cheery pair p a ge 2 2

Ingredients for yellow: 2 - sprengeri 3 - white hydrangea 3 - foxtail fern 5 - Yellow Elenora cremon 5 - yellow button pompons 4 - solidago 2 - pink kalanchoe

Girly glam p a ge 2 6

Ingredients: 1 - Snow Elenora Cremon 1 - white daisy pompon 2 - hot pink godetia 3 - hot pink matsumoto 2 - tree fern 3 - glitter flowers

modern red p a ge 2 8

special thanks to our growers golden flowers blue and white hydrangea, spray roses, pompons, solidago, godetia, roses, carnations, mini carnations, alstroemeria, veronica, cremons

hopkins quality foliage, Inc. leather leaf, ti leaves, foxtail fern, cocculus, umbrella palm, Israeli ruscus, sprengeri, green and variegated pittosporum, tree fern, plumosa

Joseph & Sons stock, bupleurum, bells of ireland

Ingredients: 4 - green pittosporum 10 - Chicago altstroemeria 5 - Red Tornado cremons 6 - Rubicon Spray Roses 15 - Daniko Carnations 3 - white kalanchoe

the sun valley group heirloom hydrangeas, white kale, matricaria asters, kalanchoe, iris, tulips, matsumoto asters

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