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Alissa Smith

After looking through several posts for floral design, I came upon a great suggestion of creating edible flower arrangements in your floral design class. Now is a great time to do this with you students since good weather is still producing great fruit and making it plentiful at the grocery store and at the farmer?s market. Here are some websites to help you with the process:

A How to Guidle

http://www.life123.com/home-garden/flower-guides/flower-arranging-wreaths/making-edible-flower-arrangements.shtml

http://www.squidoo.com/edible-arrangements

Edible Arrangements on Food Network show "Unwrapped". Gives some info on how they are made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt3vACw61g0

Edible Arrangements featured on CNBC   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2nThV7apyY

To see examples of Edible Arrangements, visit http://www.ediblearrangements.com/and look under the arrangements tab at the top. There are some really neat examples of mug arrangements.

If anyone has done this before and has pictures of more info they would like to share, please post a comment to this blog post.

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Alissa Smith

Floriculture I.D. in Floral Design

Posted by Alissa Smith Aug 24, 2009

A great way to get your students familiar with floriculture identification is to have a "Flower of the Week". You can use the floriculture i.d. list from the National FFA Floriculture Judging CDE as a way for students to learn scientific names of plants and flowers. Each week you can have a new flower on display in your classroom. You can spend 5-10 minutes at the beginning of the class talking about identification points and students can log that information on their Floriculture I.D. sheet. This works great because students look forward to finding out what the new flower is for the week. It is very important for you to plan ahead and stay on schedule. I also recommend showing pictures of the flower on a PowerPoint and combine those pictures so that you can do floriculture identification quizzes throughout the class.

Click here to see the Floriculture Plant Identification List for the National FFA Floriculture Judging CDE

Please add a comment to this post and tell us about how you do floriculture i.d. in your class!

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