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- Hi, I'm Miss Penny,
and these are the KidVision kids.
And we're here today at Field of Flowers
to learn about flowers and about flower arranging.
- Hi, Miss Penny.
We're really glad you're here today.
My name is Miss Brenda.
We're really happy the KidVision kids are here today.
We're gonna learn a lot about flowers.
We're gonna have some fun.
But how about if we start out
with a tour of the store first?
- Let's go.
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- It's cold in here.
- It is cold in here.
- What happens in this room?
- When all the flowers come off the truck
they come into this big cooler.
And it's about 38 degrees in here.
- And why do you keep them cool?
- Just makes them last longer to keep them cool.
- Once the flowers are ready,
once you've received them and they're in the cold room,
when you want to put them on the display floor,
do you cut them first?
- We always cut them first, yes,
and then they get moved out to here
in different areas of the store.
- Great, so you have all these beautiful flowers
that were once in boxes that are now on display beautifully.
- That's correct.
- Terrific.
Let's see the next section.
- Okay, great.
So, Miss Penny, I wanted to show you
this is actually our DIY area
where after people have purchased their flowers
they can bring them over here
and they can actually assemble them right here.
As you can see somebody has done something
very beautiful for a special event.
And so, it keeps the mess out of their house.
- And then once they have their flower arrangements made
and they're done,
where do they go pay for their flowers?
- We have registers up front.
Generally people will actually pay for their flowers
and then bring them over here.
We also have a carry-out
where the flower designs are already made,
that are made by our very talented designers, as well.
So we have a lot of special areas here in the flower shop.
- Thank you so much
for the wonderful tour of your flower shop.
It is a terrific place and it smells so good in here.
And while we're here we'd like to find out
more about the parts of the flower,
we'd like to learn how to take care of flowers,
and maybe even how to make a flower arrangement.
- That sounds great.
Let's do it.
- Let's do it.
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- We're in a great place.
I really like this location.
Where are we at?
- This is called the production area.
This is where all designers
make all of our flower arrangements.
And these big tables are actually called our design benches.
- And what kind of flowers do we have?
Can you name them, please?
- We actually have a variety of things.
These are called chrysanthemums.
We have roses here.
And this is a rose spray.
That means there's a whole bunch of different flowers
on one stem.
Right there we have carnations.
And this is also a carnation spray.
We have large sunflowers, small sunflowers,
Stargazer lilies, and Asiatic lilies.
- I love the lilies.
They are so beautiful.
Let's talk about this lily.
All flower have different parts.
So, children, you might be able to help me with this.
What is this called?
- The stem.
- What is this called?
It's called the...
- Leaf.
- And what is this called?
- The flower.
- That's the flower.
- If we would get flowers out of a box
and we want to put them, want to keep them fresh
you'd put it in water, why?
- So it, so it could stay hydrated.
- They hydrate.
They stay hydrated and if they're hydrated they last...
- Longer.
- They last longer.
So whenever we have flowers we want to put them in water
so they last longer.
Terrific.
Well we've learned a lot about flowers
and we've seen that there's a large variety of flowers.
What I'd like to know now
is what flowers you put together to make an arrangement.
- That would be a great idea.
We're gonna make a beautiful arrangement together.
Would you like to do that?
- [Both] Yes!
- That sounds terrific.
- Great, that sounds fun.
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- Well, I see that we have three different types
of plants in front of us.
- Well, Miss Penny, we have leather fern
that you have in your right hand.
We're gonna be using that today in our arrangement.
- Oh, I like that one.
- It's very sturdy and lasts a long time.
- What is this called?
- That's actually called Salal.
A lot of people will call it lemon leaf also.
- Oh, this one looks really familiar.
What is this called?
- That's actually a palm leaf.
They use it in the tropical arrangements a lot of times.
- And what about this?
- That's actually in the ruscus family.
That particular variety is called Italian ruscus.
Used a lot in wedding arrangements.
- Ah.
And what is this group of flowers called?
- Those are called our mass flowers.
We're actually just gonna be using our carnation.
But I wanted to show the kids
and you, Miss Penny, that anything that has a round head
that's a flower is actually considered a mass flower.
- And at the end, what types of flowers are those?
- These are actually called accent flowers
or filler flowers.
We have a different variety here.
This is called gypsophila
but some people call it baby's-breath.
This is called aster, aster white.
This also comes in purple.
This is called aster solidago.
And these are all to fill in
your beautiful flower arrangement.
- That's terrific.
I'm gonna ask one more question.
- Sure.
What's the difference between a bouquet and an arrangement?
- Well, an arrangement generally gets put in
some kind of container or a vase.
But a lot of times people just want a bouquet of flowers
because they already have their container or vase at home.
So we put it together for them,
wrap it up, and they take it home
and put it in their own containers.
- Thank you.
- Your welcome.
- Would you like to make an arrangement?
- [All] Yeah!
- Great.
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- Great!
I am so excited.
Now we get to actually make a flower arrangement.
- Indeed, we do.
This is actually a block of foam
that we're gonna be using in our design today.
But we have to do something really special to this.
We would cut a little block that we would need.
Once we have our water in our bucket or our container
we just have to float our oasis foam.
Put it in my little container there.
Who knows the first thing
that we're gonna put into our arrangement today?
- Our green.
- Our greens!
Very, very good.
So, we've made a little plant, didn't we?
- We did make a plant.
- We made like a little plant arrangement.
- And what goes in next?
- Actually, what we're gonna work with next
is our carnations.
These are very pretty.
You guys are natural flower designers.
So we're looking at our arrangement
and there's some empty spots.
And the empty spots are where
our filler or our accent flowers are gonna go in.
So does everybody feel like
a professional flower designer now, at this point?
- I do.
And I wanna ask you, there's a word called florist.
- Yes.
- And I know that it has multiple meanings.
- It does.
- Are we being florists right now?
- This is actually part of being a florist, yes.
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- Thank you very much, Miss Brenda.
We learned so much about flowers today
and loved making our flower arrangement.
- It was really our pleasure.
I had such a great time with you guys.
You did a fabulous job.
These are so pretty.
Thank you, it was my pleasure.
- [All] Bye!