For those who were around in the 70's

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Hi everyone!
I am looking for information on floral design styles during the 1970s.
I searched here but found little info.
I am wondering what flowers were Fab and what styles were groovy!
It is for a 70s theme party!
:hippy2::vader:trooper
Thanks!
 
Do we have to revisit the '70's? If so....

Weddings rainbow colors mint green, pink, yellow and lavender. UGH!!!!!!!!

that is enough to make me want to hurl.

Daisies and roundy moundys are the first floral arrangement that pops in my mind. Think the Rhorshak (sp?) ink plot psychological test.

Carnations and daisies.

Joe

I will ponder somemore
 
Oh My

Well I called Pops on this one as above stated, here is what he said, rainbow colors, as well as some of the paper flower look was popular as well, did a 70 wedding awhile back lots of the same, gerbers, were hot.

The list of flowers he just gave me, gerbers, sunflowers, purple statice, lots of baby's breath, baker fern, well lots of compact look. sweet heart roses.

This is way scary for me..Big football mums,large flowers were the rage in vases, the funny one was the poodle made of mums.with eyes, Hope this helps you some,
 
Queen of Weddings said:
Well I called Pops on this one as above stated, here is what he said, rainbow colors, as well as some of the paper flower look was popular as well, did a 70 wedding awhile back lots of the same, gerbers, were hot.

The list of flowers he just gave me, gerbers, sunflowers, purple statice, lots of baby's breath, baker fern, well lots of compact look. sweet heart roses.

This is way scary for me..Big football mums,large flowers were the rage in vases, the funny one was the poodle made of mums.with eyes, Hope this helps you some,
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Those poodles are cute ...

and that reminds me, I had to do a smiley face on a Chrysanthemum today. I substituted with 4 yellow carns.

What is interesting is to note that when my grandparents were running the business back in the early 1900's, they grew carns and mini carns in raised beds, but along the side they grew freesia.

Hard to place freesia in the same category as the "lowly" carnation, but its true.

Joe

fwiw, I like carnations because so many people dislike them.

also because they last a long time.
 
Thank you!!!

Joe Mioux said:
Those poodles are cute ...

and that reminds me, I had to do a smiley face on a Chrysanthemum today. I substituted with 4 yellow carns.

What is interesting is to note that when my grandparents were running the business back in the early 1900's, they grew carns and mini carns in raised beds, but along the side they grew freesia.

Hard to place freesia in the same category as the "lowly" carnation, but its true.

Joe

fwiw, I like carnations because so many people dislike them.

also because they last a long time.
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Dear Mr. Joe,

Thank you for the memories, my MiMi, did the same as well, which was way cool for me to read this, She opened her store in the 1940's she passed this year, use to tell me these things as well that she did, remember picot ribbon? This made my day..Hugs to you...
 
Queen of Weddings said:
Dear Mr. Joe,

Thank you for the memories, my MiMi, did the same as well, which was way cool for me to read this, She opened her store in the 1940's she passed this year, use to tell me these things as well that she did, remember picot ribbon? This made my day..Hugs to you...
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We still have pico ribbon and some REALLY REALLY old number 40 with script printed on the ribbon... Like "Wife" You should see some of the Old Lion Ribbon Trademarked logos.... pretty cool.
 
I was a bride in June 1970. Had a cascade bouquet of yellow daisys with leather base. Bridesmaid has a round of yellow spiders with a slight cascade. Alter baskets were big white mums with yellow filler flowers. Guys had yellow carn bouts. All the dresses (lime & yellow) were empire waist. It was beautiful, then!

Ok now stop laughing. At least the marriage lasted!
 
I got married in 1973. Daisies and baby's breath in baskets - white, mint green, ice blue, and peach, arranged tightly. If you wanted something more upscale, you made a scalene arrangement, but make sure it is very geometric. I had a request for a poodle last month, so I made one. My designers laughed out loud.
I still have the same wife, and she still turns my head when she walks in the room.
 
Queen of Weddings said:
The list of flowers he just gave me, gerbers, sunflowers, purple statice, lots of baby's breath, baker fern, well lots of compact look. sweet heart roses.
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Just looked through the 1973 selection guide....not 1 gerb and not 1 sunflower, tons of different kinds of mums, commercials, spiders, feugies, spoon mums, red rovers, cremones and daisies, carnations, roses and sweets (lots of them) cymbids, birds, snaps, and lots of glads, some babies breath but not much that really started in the 80s - 90s lots of leather fern, huck, scotish broom varigated pitt.
 
I was married in 1971 and carnations sprayed blue were all the rage, white daisies too.
 
I have a few pictures around the shop. In 1976 I worked for the oldest and largest shop in our city.The cooler would have on a reg day.Mums, roses in all 4 colors red,yellow, sonja, bridal pink and white, sweatheart roses,daisies in yellow, white, purple, pink and blue, glads, statice, Gyp, lots of carns . In season we would also have Iris, snaps and Marguerite daisies.

We did have a varity of orchids and steph for weddings. mint green,yellow,baby blue,pink,purple and lavender were the colors of choice only thing better was to use them all and call it a rainbow. Cascade bouquets were wired and taped every flower...

in the greenery dept we had galax,emerald,baker,acuba,huck,plumosa,spingarhia

not many flower color choices so stem dye and spray paint were king

100 width ribbon on funeral work (had to have nice wide ribbon so people could read Jesus Called and Homer Answered) picot on wedding work.We did have cottons and so forth for dish gardens We had a relly nice Lion ribbon sales man named Gus he was German or something a little hard to understand ,I loved to look at his books,

you could get a spray not on an easel(the funeral home hung them) for 12.50
standing spray 15.00 and up
a wreath started at 17.50 and up

a dozen JVan Hanford roses for 17.50
no delivery charge untill around 78 or 79 in our town

lets not forget the Bowl Of Beauty 1,2 or 3 roses dipped in wax, placed in a sealed bubble of water. People thought that was way cool

That is how it was in 1977
 
Joe Mioux said:
We still have pico ribbon and some REALLY REALLY old number 40 with script printed on the ribbon... Like "Wife" You should see some of the Old Lion Ribbon Trademarked logos.... pretty cool.
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LOL.... me too....

#40 pink "real satin" with Rebekkah Lodge printed, red white and blue with American Legion and a few more....still have a couple boxes of picoh as well...

Ah...the memories
 
I was married in '72. Daisies, daisies and more daisies! I was quite avante garde evidently, when I told the florist no carns! (funny, I now love carns)

My wedding party had daisies in baskets. I had pink roses, purple statice and daisies. Daisies on the cake.

But I think really cheesy looking carns with lots of glitter and stuff would also give a feel for back then. And Lava lamps!

Have fun and take pix!

Jen in Tallahassee


dzynrprincess said:
Hi everyone!
I am looking for information on floral design styles during the 1970s.
I searched here but found little info.
I am wondering what flowers were Fab and what styles were groovy!
It is for a 70s theme party!
:hippy2::vader:trooper
Thanks!
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Other '70's colors

Neon lime green and Neon hot pink colors. Alsol lots of white daises. Think Flowerpower logos and associated art work.
 
Wedding this month

Reading this all makes me chuckle. I'm doing a wedding this month with white daisies & burgundy-tipped mini carns, BB and I'll probabaly just use LL to give it the look she wants. Mind you, she's not going for a retro theme, she just lives in one! She was also thinking spider mums. Is this stuff coming back? I tried to offer other, more modern ideas, but I think they fell on a deaf ear. Oh well, to each her own!
 
hmmm got married in 74, took over the shop in 74...
former owners used laurel to green both funeral work and centerpieces. Occasionally used leather leaf. Poms, daisies, glads, snaps all came fresh from a greenhouse an hour away (they smelled so great!). Roses were about .06-.09 stem and we even got "short stems" for .03.
Carnations were a standard and the old owners NEVER used mini carnations.
Wasn't long before the trucks began coming to us and the varieties we just loved. The shop's attitude changed within a few months of us taking over.
Pastel colored weddings, parasols, lots of crescent bridal bouquets....
I was so sick of mint green and yellow weddings........
Now today, can't keep enough of the kermit poms and green spider mums in stock. The color sells themselves.
Mum faces.......the hospital staff loved them......(still do).......
BTW, my bridal bouquet was red roses and stephanotis cascade (and we looked like Mary & Jesus in our wedding pics-hubby with beard and long hair)
Ah....those were the days !! :bouncy:
 
The look of arrangements from flower shops in the 70's were the same as in the 60's and 50's so I'm not sure being historically accurate will give you the level of fun you seek for a party. (They may just look like low-priced mass-produced arrangements being sold today.)

Gerbs weren't around, but IMO their psychedelic colors convey the prevailing mood of the day. Just have fun!
 
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