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Love is patient, Love is kind. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves
~ 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Symphony of Love indicates an entire life. Life is made of songs, music, dances and melodies on a huge stage. In this floral arrangement design, I picked Dancing Lady orchids (scientifically called Oncidium Gower Ramsey) as primary flower since it is one of my Significant Other's favorite flowers. Appearing like dancing ladies of striking yellow gown with burgundy top and elaborate head gear, they are unique representing life. Orange chrysanthemums are like the chorus in each song, symbolizing crescendo of life that shoot up reaching for the heaven above. White denotes purity and the one and only Madonna Lily (Lilium Candidum) is my focal point also represents my dearest prince charming! In fact, Symphony of Love was made special for His birthday!
Floral Material
Orchids have been feared by many as it is known to be hard to handle in floral arrangement (especially for amateur) as their shape is rather complicated to manage compares to other flowers. This is my first design capitalizes on orchid and it was much simpler than what I had thought of. A piece of motivation note - Failure is the beginning of success, and not the end of our journey.
From top left (clockwise) are Leather Ferns, Dancing Lady orchids, Madonna lily and Orange chrysanthemums. White asters are added as fillers.
Design concept
Triangle was the first shape came to my mind and below illustrates what I imagined from side view.
Triangle denotes personal realm and the shape represents humanity. Yellow, the color of the primary flowers is the golden color. And golden triangle represents the wisdom of the ages and the wealth of life. Aspiration or rising to heaven and male force are the meanings behind the symbol of an upward moving triangle.
Both front view and top view give a shape of diamond. Many of us associated diamond with strong force of Venus, can be interpreted as the courage Eve behind the successful man!
Getting started:
1. Get a floral basket with handle. After wrapping with a thin plastic material, cut an oasis of an appropriate size and insert into the basket. Leave the oasis a couple inches above the basket level to ease the arrangement.
2. Compose this arrangement from side view and at 45 degree angled front view.
3. Start with leather ferns. Fill them up to cover the oasis. Allow the long fern to be located at opposite ends of the triangle shape as observed from side view. Below illustrates the front view after foliage insertion.
4. Move on to place Madonna lily at the focal point, neither too center like below.
5. Then, introduce Dancing Lady orchids. Let the orchids lie almost touching the table top, flow naturally and at the same time build the triangle shape of this design. Insert the orchid pointing upwards to the top as well resembling a diamond shape when viewing from front or back.
6. Then, add in the orange chrysanthemums, a perfect color combination with yellow orchid and white lily.
7. Last but not least, insert the white asters to brighten up Love Symphony floral design.
Happy Birthday My Dear!
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