Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Benefits Of Using Floral Foam On Flower Arrangement

By Catherine Butler


Expressing beauty can be done in different ways. Using your creativity, you may express your own art by painting certain images from your mind or from what you observe on your surroundings. You can even try sketching or doing some handicrafts. Likewise, capturing images depicts beauty. You have several choices to select and one of that may be flower arranging. With that, you will also know the benefits of floral foam sphere balls in this art.

Probably, you are too familiar with flower arrangements and have seen many types of it in different areas. It may be described as an art of forming flowers such as roses, carnations, gerbera daisies and many more, together in order to attain the congruence of color and form. The natural gorgeousness of nature is really pleasing to the eyes, thus many loves to do this.

This art is not just use for special occasions like weddings and others. It can also be a hobby for humans especially those who are nature lovers. It has many types of arrangements which you can learn and use. But to professionally and effectively arrange those flowers, you must certainly need this material for the process.

Long ago, people just store their flowers on some containers and just displayed it somewhere at their house. But as the company, Smithers-Oasis, discovered this material in 1954, people are now using it for flowery compositions. And that is floral foams. It looks like a dark green sponge and a lightweight. It also has benefits which are stated below.

It acts like a strong base. Before, people will just store their sunflowers or roses on a vase that filled with water. The appearance may quite be disorganized and imbalance to look at. Floral foam can support those plants. Other features like foam spheres can allow you to make awesome hanging flowery arrangements. There are many shapes you may use and you have the freedom to modify it and create your own masterpiece.

Another benefit is its ability to hold big quantity of water. Because the material is spongy, it has the ability to absorb the element. After absorbing, it then supplies the flowers with waters. For that, the life of your roses, carnations, etc. Will increase.

Now that you know its benefits, next thing is knowing the proper way to use this. It would be a good opportunity for beginners to explore their creativity. But before drenching the foam with water, you should add some flower foods on the waters so that the foam will absorb it and subsequently provide it to your cut-flowers.

Some flowers may not also be appropriate with this material so might as well ask some advice to professional florists so you would be guided. There are also safety precautions for floral foams. Wearing gloves is recommended because these foamscontain formaldehyde and carbon black which are also toxic.

If ever you love nature, then flowery compositions may do great for you. Just keep on practicing with this floral foams. For sure, you will definitely master it.




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