Topiary from artificial flowers. Topiary: master class

In gardening, topiar is a figured haircut of plants. The needlewomen took this idea as the basis and began to create interesting topiarias from artificial flowers, satin ribbons, paper, vegetables, dummies, cones, sweets, beads, coffee beans, macaroni, junk material.

The fastest growing tree is the florists who use the ready-made material (flowers, branches, berries, leaves, grass, foam bars). It remains for them to collect all in bright compositions only in a few minutes. Let's consider several ways of making such a tree from artificial flowers.

Basics of making topiary

Russian masters teach beginners to create trees, starting with the trunk and crown, and then pay attention to the roots. This is due to the fact that the bottom of the topiary is filled with gypsum. Foreign masters and florists use a ready-made special polystyrene, cast-iron containers.

That is, in the classical method, the crown is attached to a foam ball. Instead, you can take foam rubber or a newspaper ball (crumple the newspaper, rewind, forming a ball). Here everything depends on the method of attachment: foam and foam rubber allows to pierce it with a blunt end, and the newspaper ball must be pierced with needles or glued material.

Topiary of flowers can have a long (straight, zigzag) or short trunk. You attach it to the ball before the crown is formed. This is necessary in order to begin to fasten the elements from it. When using glue, read about its properties, as many varieties simply "burn" the foam.

As a trunk can act an ordinary branch, a block, a dense cardboard, plastic, a wire. Some masters wrap the tube with a newspaper, and then with a cloth dipped in a plaster cast. Such trunks will only have to be painted with acrylic paints and varnished. The budget option is to wind the trunk with brown threads.

The classical method of making topiary

The bottom of the topiary is more often represented by a pot, a vase, which is decorated. Inside, insert the trunk with the crown, fill it with plaster and lay a layer of paper, thread, grass, put on twigs, beaded flowers. This is due to the fact that nothing is glued to the gypsum, and florets, insects and other elements can be attached to the threads in the form of grass .

Let's consider a classical way of manufacturing of a tree in a direction from top to down. To make a topiary of flowers, you will need:

• Artificial roses;
• glue;
• scissors;
• A foam ball;
• Glass bulb in the form of a glass.

First, cut off the flowers in the flowers, leaving a centimeter-long tail. Next, put a foam ball on the flask . Some masters use the usual inverted wine glasses. Then you need to use a strong, shatterproof material.

Starting from the fixing point, glue the roses, piercing the ball with a tail. Try not to leave emptiness. Otherwise, have on hand various butterflies, beads, berries, which will be in harmony with the product. The trunk is decorated with a bow, and the tree is ready to decorate the wedding banquet.

Reverse way of making a tree

Topiary from artificial flowers can be done starting with the roots. To do this, take a pot or a pot, decorated with beads, bows or simply pasted with corrugated beautiful paper with decorative ribbons. But more often masters find unusual shapes: baskets, jugs, cones, which you do not need to decorate.

Fill the container with a foam base, which is sold in a floristic store. It looks like a gray brick. It is cut to the size of a pot and inserted inside. From above decorate with special grass, piercing with a knife or fastening with glue. Then proceed to the manufacture of the crown. Take the same foam plastic bricks and knife with a knife to form a ball or other shape.

From its form depends on the appearance of the topiary. Now the basis is covered with grass and pins. Take the ribbon with artificial flowers (they are used for wedding decorations) and wrap the ball like a ball of threads. Now the barrel is inserted into the ball, and the other end, coated with glue, is put in a pot. Then take the artificial petals in a tone (sold from florists or handmade hypermarkets) and glue them on the grass, to the trunk.

Unusual Topiary: master class with photo

Pay attention to the foam base. It is sold in a wide variety of forms. Especially popular is an elongated shape, similar to a lampshade. With such a framework, it is most simple to work.

1. Take a pot of green color, decorate on the sides with rosebuds. Inside insert a foam piece, cover with grass.
2. Lampshade base pierce the stalk of a tree, paint it in green. Leave to dry.
3. Take a satin green ribbon, paste on it artificial roses.
4. Insert the stem with the crown in the pot. Decorate with rose blossoms or petals.
5. You paste a ribbon with roses in a spiral on the painted base.
6. The trunk is decorated with a bow.

Who does not like minimalism, decorates completely the topiary of artificial flowers (photo with two lampshades). As you can see, the basis can be decorated with flowers, so that the tree is bright, or wrapped in green branches, achieving a natural plant species. In these cases, you can use the "roots" of ordinary flower pots.

Topiary for the site

For those who love wildflowers, the following master class is offered for making a topiary on a garden plot. To do this, you will need:

1. A plastic branch with rare green leaves. This will be the trunk, so choose a thick and strong base.
2. Field artificial flowers.
3. Ceramic pot.
4. Polyfoam base, decorative grass.
5. Satin ribbon.
6. Glue, scissors, plastic fastenings.

How in this case do the topiary of artificial flowers? You decorate the vase in a known way, ie, cut off the foam under its size, cover the emptiness with sisal, cover it with grass grass.

Next, take a branch and apply artificial flowers to its base. Determine the length, cut off excess. In fact, you need to cover the trunk with branches of wildflowers, and then tighten with plastic fasteners. You can tighten it with a transparent tape. Topiary put into the pot. Then one branch with flowers cut into small twigs and inserted near the trunk into the foam. The trunk is decorated with a bow. The garden tree is ready.

Tea master-class (step-by-step)

Topiary can have a completely different shape and be created without foam base, gypsum and other conventional tools. For this master class, you will need:

• Cup and saucer;
• artificial flowers;
• glue;
• A thick wire that can withstand the weight of the cup (perhaps you will find plastic beautiful cups).

Now bend the wire, apply a cup to determine the length of the craft. You paste. The stronger the wire, the more inclined it is possible to place a cup, as if imitating the process of transfusion of tea from a cup in a saucer. Now take artificial flowers for the topiary, cut off the heads without tails, since you will glue them to each other.

You can buy dummies berries, weed, leaflets. Glue the flowers from the inside of the cup, closing the wire. Then glue it on all sides and proceed to decorating the saucer. This kind of topiary is not as complicated as it seems at first. Here the main thing is to buy a good glue, a strong thick wire and bright cups.

How to achieve unusual forms?

If you look at the works of masters, you will see that the trees are made not only round, but also square, triangular, pyramidal, zigzag, double, heart-shaped. For this, the masters use ready-made bases under the crown or apply some tricks:

1. The foam plastic piece is knurled to the desired shape. Then it is pasted with sisal or green grass.
2. Cut out any form of cardboard, pasted it from all sides with balls of napkins, newspapers. The form is tightened with threads and covered with the necessary objects.
3. One crown is glued several crowns (look at the red topiary). The master class is simple. Just like in the previous examples, the pot is decorated. The barrel is inserted. On it, one globe with flowers is planted with glue, then the second.
4. Several trunks and "antennae" are inserted into one crown.
5. Masters build the shape of an animal and glue it with artificial plants.
6. Sew forms of fabric and sintepon. Garnish them with flowers.

Summarizing

Topiary can be made in a variety of forms. Walk around the flower and construction shops, pay attention to different materials. For example, a ready-made woven hollow ball is sold that is wrapped in grass and pasted with flowers.

Topiary from artificial flowers are created for the evening. Their cost depends on the size of the tree and the material. Usually a 30-centimeter topiary leaves 500 rubles: a pot, artificial flowers, hot melt, gypsum. And if you like the "men's" stores (building materials, fishing and car goods), it is possible to find the analogues and for a lower price.