Tips for Using Wire in Floral Arrangements

"Now we're going to wire our cymbidiums. Just take your florets, and cut off the green stem to the butt of the petals. You want to take your cymbidium; you want to poke it through the bottom where the stem attaches to the petals. This may take you a couple times to get it in the right place in order for the wire to come through the throat. There we have it. Push it all the way down to your little curlycue. You want to do another one, and like I said, wrap it around four or five times to where the stem meets the petals. Just push it right through. Sometimes you have to open it up a little bit just to get it to go through. You just repeat this process until you've used up all your orchids."