Stephanotis Posy

Yesterday Leti and I attended a floristry event where AIFD members showed examples of their designs and spoke about how they got into the floristry business.  At the end they gave us party favors that were bags full of stephanotis.  I couldn't let them go to waste, so I turned them into a wired posy.  Below I will show you I wired the flowers.

Pretty Posy!

These are the materials I used:
Stephanotis
Stephanotis stem
Floral Tape
Wire
Ribbon
Decorative jewel pins


The mechanic I used to wire the stephanotis is called a stephanotis stem, which is a wire with a piece of cotton at the end of it to keep the flower hydrated.  You can also use wire and a small piece of cotton ball if you don't have access to these. To prepare them soak the cotton side in water.

Next, I pulled the calyx (the green part) off the stephanotis.  There is a little piece of calyx left in the flower which I took out by poking the opposite end of the stephanotis stem through the bottom part of the flower.









Next, I inserted the stephanotis stem into the flower and taped each stem. I repeated this until all the flowers were taped.  I used about 20 flowers for the posy.  The entire wiring process took quite a bit of time, but it was worth it.

I finished the posy with bling and ribbon.  I inserted short jeweled pins in the center of the flowers.  I also added purple ribbon for some color in the posy.  I finished the bouquet by ribbon wrapping the stems.  I hope you like it!