Some of the many benefits of membership in the Framingham Garden Club are the hands-on floral design workshops presented by the club’s master designers several times a year. In October 2018 we focused on “Grouped Mass Design.” Grouped Mass Design features groups, or clusters, of like flowers or other plant material placed next to groups of different like materials, all emanating from one point of emergence.
Grouped Mass Design, small scale
Here are two examples designed by FGC’s own experts, Minal Akkad, Ruth Evans and Marion Goodman.
Notice the clusters of plant material placed next to other clusters.
Design tip: place wet Oasis one inch above the top of the container. If your container is large, place non-clumping litter in plastic in the bottom 1/2 to 1/3rd for stability, then put the Oasis only in the top part of the container. This minimizes the weight of the completed design.
Click on the slideshow for photos of the workshop and resulting designs
