Adding Moss to Silk Flower Arrangements

Video Transcript

"Now I'm going to show you the very finishing touches for your artificial flower arrangement. This last touch is what separates the professionals from the amateurs. This is a great designer trick and this is moss. If you remember what we've done is, we've placed all these flowers inside this floral foam but if you look closely, you can see all the foam and that's a real problem, makes it look very unprofessional. We're going to get this moss and these greening pins and we're going to fix that, right now. There are all different sorts of mosses to choose from and it really depends on what your project is. There's Spanish moss that looks a little bit more dried and old. I like the super moss, just for everyday projects because it looks so real and it has such a beautiful color. What we're going to do, is we're just going to cover everything up. It's a little bit like carpeting. We'll put this around, all the way around, and make sure that we cover up all of our little sins, in here. Sometimes, depending on what kind of container you're using, you may need to use these greening pins, once again found in the floral department, usually, near the foam. What these are, they're a bit like hair pins, they keep everything in place. You'll just press these in and secure that in the foam, as well, and then you'll know that your moss isn't going anywhere. So there we have it. It's complete; it didn't take very much time at all. This is a wonderful project, sometimes it can be very therapeutic too, a great way to spend an afternoon. As you can see, the results are pretty spectacular."