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How to Make Rolled Leaves in Floral Arrangements
How to Make Rolled Leaves in Floral Arrangements. Floral arrangements are rarely complete without some type of greenery accent for contrast. Whether your goal is to make simple table centerpieces or to construct a grand showpiece, fresh rolled leaves are a lovely complement to a botanical-type floral arrangement. Include a few fresh rolled leaves...
Floral arrangements are rarely complete without some type of greenery accent for contrast. Whether your goal is to make simple table centerpieces or to construct a grand showpiece, fresh rolled leaves are a lovely complement to a botanical-type floral arrangement. Include a few fresh rolled leaves in your floral arrangement for some eye-catching visual interest.
Things You'll Need
Fresh leaves
Floral foam
Florist pins
Floral wire
Choose a fresh, flexible leaf for the arrangement. Small, drier leaves will be extremely difficult to manipulate and won't hold their shape, if you can even manage to roll them. Large varieties that will work well for this project include aspidistra, canna, cordyline, flax and galax leaves. Choose the one that works the best for the type of flower that the leaf will be accenting.
Set out the tools and floral arranging base that you will be using for the project. You might choose to configure an arrangement on a floral foam base covered in rolled leaves, which will necessitate the use of florist pins to hold the leaves to the base. If merely rolling leaves individually and adding them to a standing vase arrangement, floral wire should suffice.
Prepare the leaves by warming them in your hands. Gently stroking them in your palms will lightly warm them and enable them to be more flexible as you work with them. You might find it more beneficial to warm each one individually before you roll and secure it.
If working around a floral foam base, use a florist pin to secure one of the leaves onto the base by pinning across the vein of the leaf on one end. Gently curve the leaf and anchor the other end into the base, again pinning across the vein with a florist pin. Continue with more leaves, each time securing one end, curving or rolling it into whatever shape you desire, and securing the opposite end into the base. Use your imagination to create whatever shapes the leaves will allow you to make.
If creating individual rolled leaf accents to add into a larger arrangement, simply warm a leaf in your hands, roll it into the desired shape and run a small piece of floral wire through it. Continue wrapping individual leaves around the first and securing with floral wire to create a larger, rose-shaped rolled leaf accent. Wrap wire around the stems of the leaves, trim the end of the wire and add it to your arrangement.
