Do you use petaled flowers?

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shannonlovesflowers

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A few years back I saw in a Flowers& magazine I saw for the first time petaled sunflowers used. And I loved it.

I do use petaled flowers at the shop. Sometimes I'll take damaged petals off gerbs and use the center. I don't charge much for them though.

Anyhoo-
I had a bridal bouquet to do. They wanted dahlias if possible. The dahlias didn't come in pretty nor the right color. I was trying to salvage some of the dahlias so I started plucking the bottom petals off. As I plucked I saw what was underneath. So pretty!
So I shoved 'em in the bouquet anyway! Wha'daya think?
 

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love it -always have liked the 'deflowered' look, expecially sunflowers, anemones. My favorite is the 'butt' of stephanotis flower - but it's too tedious to really do anything with other than maybe glue into corsages.
 
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Back in my California wholesaling days I use to stop by a little grower up in the hills near Half Moon Bay, CA. He has a plot of Scottish Sunflowers that only grew about a foot off the ground, but the heads were knarled and about a foot in diameter with very few flower petals. When they started to produce seeds he would cut them for ornamental purposes. He sold them to me for 5 bucks a head, I would wholesale them for 9. Could not keep them in stock.
 
Have done that for years. I love the look.

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Yes, I guess I do use petaled flowers, but I have always heard the term to describe it called "abstracted" or "abstracting".

Love it.

I like to do it with plumosa, too. And seeded euch.

What is it they say...."necessity is the mother of invention" ?

So true, so true!

Nicely done.
 
I really like the look but have never used it. How would you go about pricing something like that? Have you ever had negative feedback from customers who "don't want to pay for a broken flower"?
 
Trinity said:
I really like the look but have never used it. How would you go about pricing something like that? Have you ever had negative feedback from customers who "don't want to pay for a broken flower"?
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I love this look too. I call it "edit the flower"
I have had a negative comment, but it was from an older gentleman
and he notice the petals off of the sunflower, but the design also had
sunflowers with the petals,
so, he thought it was damaged.
I told him it was the new in thing. Like purchasing ripped jeans.
 
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jduncan said:
Yes, I guess I do use petaled flowers, but I have always heard the term to describe it called "abstracted" or "abstracting".

Love it.

I like to do it with plumosa, too. And seeded euch.

What is it they say...."necessity is the mother of invention" ?

So true, so true!

Nicely done.
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I think of abstracting as cutting the flower up and then using it. Hard to describe what I mean though.
 
I never had a customer complain and I use it as a "tip" to make flowers last longer, just pull those petals off when they look yucky. :)
 
Haven't tried it with dahlias (but there's a few in our cooler that just might be ripe for experimentation ....)

Have done it with sunflowers, gerberas, shasta daisies and echinacea (coneflower).

Lovely bouquet, Shannon.
 
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