Gerberas! What I generally find is that either people love gerbera flowers or they hate them. There’s kind of no middle road with this flower, also known as gerbera daisies. Personally I learnt about arranging gerbera flowers in my first few lessons as a floristry student.
And it was a nightmare! I mangled the poor things while practising making my spiral bouquet over and over again. Ah such memories!
Nonetheless, since I started my ikebana journey, I found arranging gerberas can be fun. How so?
- Firstly, gerberas are one of the best flowers for injecting colour into any flower arrangement. They come in a range of colours such as red, orange, yellow, bright pink, light pink, light yellow and white.
- Secondly, if you wire the gerbera stems, you can manipulate the stems (very carefully) to create movement in an arrangement.
- Thirdly, if you use the centres of the gerbera flower (minus the petals), the resulting look can be rather unique.
Now onto some flower arrangements I have made using gerberas.