Petal Picking: I love my job, not so much, I love my job, not so much...

This blog is meant to be an account of the daily events of my college internship and a floriculture educational tool. And as much as I want this to focus on the floral industry and the advantages of real world work experience that are offered through participating in an internship, I have a feeling it might become a slightly comical view into my personal life as a tree huggin', plant lovin', flower pickin', dirt diggin' horticulturist... I'll let you be the judge.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Monday February 21st - Design Daisy

There's nothing quite like working with faux botanicals... You can take a "geranium plant" and rip it from its fasteners in its shipping box, throw it to the ground and do the Cotton Eye Joe on it, then stab it into a pot of styrofoam, bend and yank it in every direction and then throw a 1000 degrees of heat on it... and have it look like a very real, very happy potted geranium in the end.
Helpful hint: a heat gun is not to be used as a blow drier, you don't know FRIED hair until a heat gun passes by your noggin... I never knew "Beautician" was part of the Floral Designer's requirements.

8 petal day

most important tools, wire cutters, floral knife, glue pot and heat gun

start with a terra cotta pot stuffed with styrofoam and coated with sheet moss

End with a fully grown and blooming geranium!

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