Chicken Wire

When you make your own wedding flowers, you need to have something that will help keep your rods in place in your vase or container. One method is to use the fence, which can be purchased from hardware stores or large farm supply and will be galvanized. If you have the option of buying from a wholesale florist, you can go green plastic coated wire. It is more expensive, but easier on the hands.

Chicken wire can be used either in a container inside a container or around the floral foam.

Around a container

A long narrow strip of small caliber son of chicken can be folded into thirds to the son that overlap each other and create a large number of small holes.

• Wrap this around the outside of a cart.

• You'll need a plastic container in your basket to retain water. Drill a hole through the opposite sides of the plastic packaging.

• Put a piece of yarn through the holes you made in your container and use the wire to anchor the fence to your bowl.

• You can now insert long pieces of leaves in the thread. This will create a canopy covering around your basket. Mist the leaves frequently to keep alive because it has no source of water.

Inside a container

This is the best way to keep fresh stems and flowers that need lots of water (such as anemones and spring flowers).

A good size wire to use is 2 inches (5 cm) and how much you need depends on the size container you will use and the thickness of the rod you need support. A general guide would be to cut a piece slightly larger than the width of the opening and about 3 times the depth. Cut rigid outer edge (the edge).

• Deformation of the wire so that if forms roughly the same shape as the container.

• Fill your tank at two thirds with water and gently work your foliage and flowers in the fence. If the mesh of your son is small, the holes will be hidden and not disappear once you have several layers.

• If you need more support than the thread because your stems are so thick and heavy, putting a pinholder the bottom of your bowl, then add your son.

• Put your first a thick stem through the wire and the pinholder firmly. This should provide a good firm anchor to hold the wire in place for the rest of your arrangement.

Around foam

If you need to create a greater understanding, you'll probably some more heavy stems that will require additional support.

• Make a small "cap" of chicken wire and place it gently on your floral foam.

• Attach chicken wire to your container with floral tape strips.

• The 2 inch (5 cm) gauge used for the interior of the container is too important for that as it may cut too deeply floral foam. Use a 0.5 inch (1.25 cm) gauge location.

When you make your own wedding flowers, toasting is a great tool for holding heavy bulky stems and soft stems which owe much to drink. It is not used as often as floral foam, as it can be difficult to work and it does not hold shoots as accurately as does the floral foam. But if you need to set up an arrangement for the big church or a focal point at your wedding reception, chicken wire is the best tool to anchor the larger, larger stems that are necessary for great arrangements.