Floral History Timeline

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  • 2800 BCE

    Egyptians

    Egyptians
    Flowers, garlands, and wreaths
  • 600

    Greeks

    Greeks
    Flowers, garlands, wreaths, symmetrical, and triangular
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred Years War

  • 1400

    Flemish

    Flemish
    Different shapes, colors, and textures
  • 1440

    Renaissance

    Renaissance
    Bright, natural, large, and symmetrical
  • 1453

    Start of the Renaissance Era

  • Barogue

    Barogue
    Symmetrical and asymmetrical, S-curve, and large containers

  • Thirty Years War

  • Early America

    Early America
    Household containers, any flowers

  • Bishops’ Wars

  • Period: to

    War of the Polish Succession

  • Colonial Williamsburg

    Colonial Williamsburg
    Fan-shaped, grasses, flowers, foliage

  • American Federal

    American Federal
    Few flowers

  • Victorian

    Victorian
    Foliage and grasses, low containers

  • Philippine-American War

  • Modern

    Modern
    Combined line elements from the Japanese and mass designs from Europe.