Glossary

DESIGN

Abstract Design: A creative art form in which plant material and other components are used solely as line, form, color and texture, with space to create new images.

Accessory: Anything in an arrangement in addition to plant material, container, base, background or mechanics subordinate in the design. Schedule to govern use.

Analogous Colors: Closely related colors; generally no less than three adjacent hues, or more than 1/3 of color wheel and no more than one primary color.

Artificial: Made or manufactured, not natural. (ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS AND FOLIAGE NOT PERMITTED.)

Assemblage: A three-dimensional abstract design combining plant material and found objects into an integrated whole. An Assemblage may have several parts or have parts fastened together into a single unit. It usually includes plant material and found objects previously unrelated.

Asymmetrical Balance: Approximate equal visual weight composed of different elements on each side of a vertical axis. Balance without symmetry.

Collage: A two-dimensional abstract composite of unrelated plant materials and found or man-made objects, pasted or glued to a flat panel.

Color Wheel: See back of HANDBOOK FOR FLOWER SHOWS.

Complementary Colors: Hues directly opposite on the color wheel as red/green; orange/blue; yellow/violet.

Exhibition Table: This is a table not related to the actual service of food. The exhibit is artistically arranged to provide a creative concept showing the coordination of all components. The elements and principles of design govern the selection, number and placement of components. The schedule may determine what items are used, such as the pieces in a place setting, the number of place settings, etc. Suggested staging: background, underlay, niche, open frame/s, columns, individual tables or portions of a large table divided into specified sizes, wall-hung panels, or any combination of these or other innovative staging. Space allotted must be stated in the schedule.

There are two types of Exhibition Tables:

❀ With floral design/s

❀ Without floral design/s, but must include plant material, which is

used in a manner similar to a Still Life.

Featured Object: Dominant object in a design. Schedule to govern use.

Feature: To give prominence to.

Gradation: A sequence in which there is regular and orderly change. May be in size, form, color or texture.

Interpretive Design: Selection and organization of design elements to suggest given theme, idea, or occasion.

Mobile: An Abstract Kinetic Design; a grouping of freely moving suspended forms having visual balance. Actual movement is inherent and induced by air currents with all parts moving freely.

Monochromatic Color Harmony: Variations in value and/or intensity (chroma) of a single hue, such as pink, red, maroon.

Motif: The outstanding idea, feature or theme in a work of art.

Neutral Colors: Black, gray, white.

Plant Material:

❀ Dried: Moisture has been removed. Includes weathered wood and driftwood.

❀ Forced: Dormant material, either cut or potted, forced into leaf or bloom ahead of season.

❀ Fresh: Any bud, flowers, foliage, etc., severed from a living plant and in good condition.

❀ Fruit: Seed-bearing part of a plant that may or may not be edible.

❀ Treated: Altered but still recognizable as plant material – includes glycerin, paint, or alteration by any method. Permitted only when specified in schedule.

Stabile: A static sculptural form, fixed in position at the base, which implies motion. It may incorporate moving parts.

Still Life: A grouping of plant materials and other components by which a story is told or a theme interpreted, more by the objects used than by the choice of plant materials. Objects used must be dominant and be true to normal size and function. A COMPLETED FLOWER ARRANGEMENT IS NEVER FOUND IN A STILL LIFE.

HORTICULTURE

Annual: Plant that completes its life cycle in one season.

Bicolor: Presence of two distinct, clear and separate colors in the same flower.

Biennial: Plant that usually starts one season and develops in the second season.

Blend: Flower color having an infusion or overlay over the basic color.

Classification: Usually four steps: Family (not often used); Genus; Species; Variety. Middle two are most usual in our Club.

Conservation: The practice of preserving and protecting natural resources.

Cultural Perfection: Result of good seeds sown in properly prepared soil, watered regularly as needed, staked adequately, disbudded at right stage, sprayed or dusted and cut at ideal time.

Deciduous: A woody perennial plant, such as a tree or shrub, which sheds its leaves at the end of the growing season.

Disbudding: Removal of lateral buds along stem of flower to promote development of terminal bloom.

Evergreens: Shrubs or trees that hold their leaves most of the year.

Herbaceous: A plant that does not produce a woody stem.

Perennial: A plant which lives for more than two years, typically producing flowers and seeds each year after reaching maturity.

Spray: A group of florets on a branched stem, each on its own pedicel.

Stem: The major supporting structure in plants, to which buds, leaves and flowers are attached at regular intervals at points called nodes.