Summer BBQ Grill Floral Design

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Summertime, picnic season, barbecues, so important. The Weber barbecue, yes, you should sponsor us. No, I'm giggling, but today we're talking flowers, and how can you use something interesting to make the perfect arrangement for your barbecue? Let me show you how it's done.

The materials, I started with an actual Weber barbecue, pulling off the tray. You don't need that. Then, setting in a liner, filled with floral netting. Then, anchor that down. Then, go back and put your tray on top. That's going to hide all your mechanics, pushing it down using wet floral tape, securing it in place, and repeat that. It is a two cross section. Then, for the lid, you look way back. 2009, when I first used this barbecue, I just set the lid on the side down on the ground, but wouldn't it be better to go ahead and set it into the design? So, using one of David's photography clips, taking that, just feeding that down into the grid, and letting it sit, finding the perfect hole, and you're ready to design.

As you begin, add your water, premixed with flour food, and it's a watertight container. How cool is that? Plus, we have the liner, so no issues. Then, beginning with your foliage, tucking it in, and this is where you can use anything you like. Salal, native to the Pacific Northwest, perfect. Giving it a cut and feeding it through the barbecue grid, down into the floral netting, and making sure it's into the water, coming across, and this is where you can start concealing your clamp. Then, bringing in something different. Fatsia leaves would be fabulous and come up a little bit behind, and then come out towards the front. Then, for a little bit of color, hydrangea, actually wonderful. Giving it a cut, tucking it in, and beginning filling the design.

With the base set, elevating, creating line. Agapanthus is so wonderful. It kind of looks like fireworks that comes out above, angling and then repeating. Then, coming in with some allium. There was that one. Well, that one's going to go again different. Let's find a better hole for it. There we go. Then, some allium. Switching from the blue violet to red violet for variation. Still picking up the colors of the hydrangea, and then pulling things around to the back so that it's multi-sided. You don't want it to be flat. You want it to be a full centerpiece.

To finish, taking the color palette beyond from the blue violet and red violet, into a more blue with Belladonna Delphinium, finishing out that spectrum, coming out long, letting it extend, pulling it back in, and then carrying it through towards the center. Those of you that have been in floral design know, if you put it in one spot, you want to make sure that you pull it through so that you have unity in the design.

When you're designing, going with an analogous color palette is fine, but sometimes stretching it, adding the complement, makes it so much more exciting. So, thinking about the color wheel, when we're red violet to blue violet, and going over into the orange palette, it's going to add so much excitement, so let me show you. We've got beautiful, pin-cushion protea. That hot orange color really picks things up, and adding that in, letting it come out, being vibrant, and then beautiful chamomile with the yellow, and letting it come out tall over the top, and then repeat so that you get a full lush arrangement.

Such fun. The recipe, I did fill it all the way around, so to finish it out, I use Salal and Fatsia as my foliage. Then, three of the Agapanthus, three of the Allium, seven of the Belladonna Delphinium. Then, two of the Hydrangea tucked underneath, five of the Pin Cushion Leucadendron to give it that pop. Then, of course a bit of the Chamomile for that weedy effect.

As florists, we're always looking for that perfect container, and sometimes it's a flower vase and sometimes it's not. So, now I just need to find the perfect barbecue to attend. Is it yours? I'll bring the flowers. You'll find more creative inspiration on the website, flowerschool.com. You have questions, you can reach us through there, but now it's your turn. What are you going to create for your summer picnic, barbecue or not? Be sure to take a picture, post it on social media, and #FloralDesignInstitute. That way, we all can see what you do as you do something you love.