Winter 2025 Syllabus
Winter 2025 Flowers with Jen
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Week 1: Traditional Design – Warm Color
One of the most common home designs. Usually viewed from all sides, perhaps put on the table.
Greens Only: I will supply greens. You will need to fill 3/4 the volume of your vase.
Week 2: Window Box Composition
A design that I am not sure has a formal name, but I call it window box. It’s a row of flowers of varying heights, can be 360 or 180.
Greens Only: I will supply greens.
Week 3: Terracing
Layers of materials make a terrace, this is based on the natural world’s rock layers, arranged in a stepwise fashion. in this image the bottom leaves are terraced.
Greens Only People: I will supply greens.
Week 4: Framing – Valentine’s Day
Create a frame around one element of your design.
Greens Only People: I will supply framing material and greens. You will need to fill 3/4 the volume of your vase.
Week 5: Dried Materials
Create an arrangement using dried materials. Either as the whole or a part of an arrangement.
Start on structure for week 6.
Greens Only: I will supply dried materials.
Week 6: Structure
Create a structure that will be viewed as a part but also shown off in an arrangement. Structures can sometimes become the frog for an arrangement, depending on the type and orientation, however in this case the structure still must be visible. Our structure will not be the same as what is in the example.
Greens Only: I will supply structure construction materials and greens. You will need to fill 3/4 the volume of your vase.
Week 7: Radiating
An arrangement with line elements radiating like sun rays out of the center of an arrangement.
Greens Only: I will supply greens. You will need to fill 3/4 the volume of your vase with some materials that have tall stems.
Week 8: Plaiting Palm into Nautilus shape
Plait (Braid) palm leaves into a nautilus shape and incorporate them into your design.
Greens Only: I will supply greens and palms for plaiting. You will need to fill 3/4 the volume of your vase.