History of Floral Design

By Nathan Nicholas
  • 2800 BCE

    Egyptians

  • 2800 BCE

    Egyptians (bouquet)

    Egyptians (bouquet)
  • Period: 2800 BCE to 28 BCE

    Egyptians (details)

    The Egyptians used flowers of decoration, wreaths, and temples. They also used simplistic flower arrangments. Some flowers that they used were roses, violets, water lilies, and jasmine flowers.
  • 600 BCE

    Greek

  • 600 BCE

    Greek (bouquet)

    Greek (bouquet)
  • Period: 600 BCE to 150 BCE

    Greek (details)

    The Greeks used flowers for adornment. The Greeks were known for creating symmetrical and triangular arrangements. They did create an arrangement it is the "Horn of Plenty" or known as the Cornucopia.
  • 28 BCE

    Romans (bouquet)

    Romans (bouquet)
  • 28 BCE

    Romans

  • Period: 28 BCE to 325 BCE

    Romans (details)

    They used wreaths and garlands the same as the Greeks but the Romans' own was more elaborate. They also used less graceful and they started using flowers for fragrant purposes. The Romans era ended in 325 A.D.
  • 1400

    Renaissance

  • 1400

    Renaissance (bouquet)

    Renaissance (bouquet)
  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance (details)

    The Renaissance started creating large, symmetrical arrangments with bright colors. They created the Christmas wreath. They created Christmas wreaths because they used arrangments for more religious arrangments. They used different flowers such as lilies, daisies, and roses

  • Baroque

  • Baroque (bouquet)

    Baroque (bouquet)
  • Period: to

    Baroque (details)

    They started the Hogarth curve and S-curve. The person who started this was the English painter William Hogarth. They also started using large containers with elaborate arrangments to make different types of flowers.

  • Early American

  • Early American (bouquet)

    Early American (bouquet)
  • Period: to

    Early American (details)

    They started to make arrangements for house decorations and adornments. They used almost any/every flower available to them. Then they placed each arrangement in house containers.

  • Colonial Williamsburg

  • Colonial Williamsburg (bouquet)

    Colonial Williamsburg (bouquet)
  • Period: to

    Colonial Williamsburg (details)

    They started to combine different floral bouquets together. The types of flowers that they used for the bouquets such as phlox, dianthus, snapdragons, strawflowers, hollyhocks, etc.

  • American Federal (bouquet)

    American Federal (bouquet)

  • American Federal

  • Period: to

    American Federal (details)

    They started to appreciate each flower for its charm. They used a smaller amount of flowers because they tried to stay away from bouquets. They also used fewer flowers in the containers.

  • Victorian

  • Victorian (bouquet)

    Victorian (bouquet)
  • Period: to

    Victorian (details)

    The Victorians used foliage and grasses to contrast the different textures. They used flowers like anemones, asters, bleeding hearts, and dahlias.

  • Modern (bouquet)

    Modern (bouquet)

  • Modern

  • Period: to

    Modern (details)

    This type of floral design got inspiration from the Japanese and European style of arrangement design. This started the beginning of having small containers made for a small bouquet.