In recent lessons, we have been exploring different arrangement shapes. In this arrangement, we learnt how to make a floral arrangement of a crescent shape. We were shown 6 different crescent arrangements and each of us chose one to follow. I chose to do arrangement 1. This particular arrangement was named 'Nightingale' as it has a crescent shape which make mes think of the moon at night, when the nightingale usually sings.

Skills used:

• Design measurement

• French ribbon

• Cutting

• Removing thorns

• Removing petals

• Spreading petals of flowers

Plants/materials used:

• Roses

• Baby Breath

• Polyscias

• Rumohra

• Eustoma

• Dusty miller (Silver leaf)

• Yellow palm (Chrysalidocarpus)

• Ribbon

Process: Firstly, we removed the thorns and netting from the rose stalks and rose petals, respectively. Next, we removed the outer few petals of the rose that look withered. Then we cut the first rose stalk according to the sum of the height and width of the container. The next rose stalk was cut according to the length between below the petal and the end of the stalk, of the rose stalk that was cut before, except for the last few stalks. The longest stalk was inserted at the top left corner of the sponge. The second longest stalk was inserted at the right side of the sponge, followed by the third and fourth longest stalk that was placed next to each other at the bottom left corner of the sponge. Afterwards, the remaining rose stalks were inserted in some of the spaces left on the sponge. Then, the Rumohra and Yellow Palm leaves were cut and mainly placed at the lower part of the sponge. Others were placed among the roses and larger Rumohra leaves were placed behind the longer stalks for support. Next, the Eustoma, Polyscia, Baby Breath and Dusty Miller were placed among the roses to further fill up the empty spaces on the sponge. Water was then sprayed to keep the flowers fresh. To finish the look, i added a red french ribbon.