History

When it comes to looking at history for modern/contemporary floral designs, it perhaps isn't the history of wedding bouquets, arrangement or funeral designs we need to look at as contemporary floral design is current and therefore doesn't have much history. Yes we can research this to have a little bit of background information but instead we perhaps need to look at the history of the venue the design is to be staged or perhaps the history of the culture, religion or beliefs of the client.

By looking at the history of the venue, it may influence aspects of your design, incorporating historical factors into a design.

As I learnt from researching floristry within different cultures, by knowing the history of a religion and there beliefs, it can influence what flowers you may put into a design. For example, Buddhist have a great belief in the lotus flower. The different colours have different meanings. The pink lotus flower is seen as the best and given to people with the most authority and therefore you would perhaps use it if I design was to be given to an important person or to be staged in an important building.