Free Florist Lesson
Oct. 29th, 2005 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday I helped set up a wedding. I learned a few things from the florist.
Well, one thing.
Normally, when I think of a tall plant thing to decorate a spot in a room, I think tree. Or tall cactus. But the florist had a different idea.
First you take a nice pedestal urn, preferably plastic so you can lift it later. Then you take a piece of PVC pipe about two inches in diameter and three feet tall and hold it so it's upright in the center of the urn. Then another person pours about 65 pounds of sand into the urn to hold the pipe in place. Now you screw another urn into the top of the pipe somehow (it was previously prepared).
After that I'm a bit fuzzy because I was doing other things like sweeping. But you put in some floral foam and cover it with Spanish moss. Then you stick flowers in and some ivy and ribbons to hang down the sides. The Spanish moss means you don't have to have infinite flowers. Ta da! Tall thing that's not a tree!
When the wedding's over, you get rid of the sand by pouring it out into the sandbox in the nearby playground.
I also learned that I can lift a seventy pound bag of sand and carry it around safely. It was already at waist level, in a pick-up truck with the tailgate lowered. I carried it basically hugging it around my middle, as close to my center of gravity as I could achieve. So I sincerely doubt I could have done the pouring.
Well, one thing.
Normally, when I think of a tall plant thing to decorate a spot in a room, I think tree. Or tall cactus. But the florist had a different idea.
First you take a nice pedestal urn, preferably plastic so you can lift it later. Then you take a piece of PVC pipe about two inches in diameter and three feet tall and hold it so it's upright in the center of the urn. Then another person pours about 65 pounds of sand into the urn to hold the pipe in place. Now you screw another urn into the top of the pipe somehow (it was previously prepared).
After that I'm a bit fuzzy because I was doing other things like sweeping. But you put in some floral foam and cover it with Spanish moss. Then you stick flowers in and some ivy and ribbons to hang down the sides. The Spanish moss means you don't have to have infinite flowers. Ta da! Tall thing that's not a tree!
When the wedding's over, you get rid of the sand by pouring it out into the sandbox in the nearby playground.
I also learned that I can lift a seventy pound bag of sand and carry it around safely. It was already at waist level, in a pick-up truck with the tailgate lowered. I carried it basically hugging it around my middle, as close to my center of gravity as I could achieve. So I sincerely doubt I could have done the pouring.